i am was and am. proud to mark the 75th anniversary of the stop unions liberation of warsaw from nazi germany thousands were sent to death camps all lost their lives in the city that suffered years of occupation during the 2nd world war. to ron brown and its former even partners washington's puppets after germany confirmed it paved into trump's threat to impose tariffs on european states if they don't quit the 2015 nuclear deal. which is police knew but ignored the most profound and sexual abuse by paedophiles in care homes a new report reveals a former detective who took part in the initial investigation tells her side of the story. that they were vulnerable kids who we have to take you to task and the old

solid failed time and time again to do that. to. a very warm welcome you're watching artie international with me nicky airing our top story this hour it's been exactly 75 years since warsaw was liberated by soviet and polish forces the capital was occupied by nazi germany for years thousands were deported to death comes from the warsaw ghetto 200000 soviet soldiers gave their lives to stop the brutal regime in the city and its surroundings.

city stood empty and deserted the bodies of poles tortured and executed to be seen in ditches and sewer pipes there's not a single undamaged building remaining in objects of historical and cultural heritage plundered. i. feel.

it is with great joy as i'm reporting to you that today on january the 7945 joint forces of the soviet on his 1st television front and the polish 1st army have successfully completed an offensive operation in fact turning movement and have liberated the city of warsaw from that syrian baiters once and for all. our troops a great seat by local police to proceed to the streets to salute how soldiers know this is what she is an express woman great city to liberate the city from nazi occupation. as well they went off ski was a young boy when the nazis seized warsaw here's how he describes life under occupation. more now i'm sure sure sure i'm doing the word came when i was 11 years old and it came unexpectedly it started with an aerial bombardment we didn't even

know that this could all be real like a bolt from the blue bombs were falling out from the sky and your family and friends were dying blood and how old around you they'd stayed became worse from the 10th of january and now it's a plane stopped conducting bob arguments but they started dropping incendiary shells full of white phosphorus there were 2 periods when the terror had reached its highest point during that time hanged in shock people were lying in the streets you were afraid to go outside because the cars could have come and taken anyone you were afraid to write a tram as no one knew where the germans might stop a person and take him somewhere terrible you know so the members approach them the rules were simple everything was prohibited and you had no rights except working for the nazis this was a time when the whole society understood particularly in warsaw that he should do everything to do as much harm to the occupier. in august 944

with the polish resistance rose up against the occupy as the warsaw uprising lost it 63 days before being put down by the nazis at least 150000 people are believed to have died. some in potence now accuse the viet forces of actually contribution to the failure of the will still uprising by not helping others but trade the soviet union as occupiers who will little difference to the nazis however a try if we sent the declassified wartime documents point to a different scenario and quarter pull. the nazi occupation one of the darkest chapters in poland's history nearly 6 long years of death and terror left its capital warsaw all but destroyed the occupiers and their collaborators divided the population by race millions of supposed undesirables shift off to perish in the

ovens and gas chambers of the extermination camps women were raped in the streets men women and children mass occurred in pogroms only to be dumped into mass graves by the end of it all 90 percent of polish jews had been exterminated but 75 years ago on the 17th of january soviet forces liberated warsaw back then the people welcome to the soviet troops here's an account from newly declassified documents. the nazis committed a stone nation and terrifying atrocities in poland evidence of human death and suffering was everywhere polish residents met soviet soldiers with happiness and joy for i was they stood in the streets greece in red army troops they saluted officers and soldiers expressing gratitude for liberating the city from nazi occupation but for the city's government now the day the nazis were expelled is no longer an occasion to celebrate why while today's polish authorities don't look

back with any fondness for those liberators or anything to do with moscow right now to them vladimir putin is a liar for daring to say poland benefited from the munich agreement which carved up czechoslovakia in 1938 giving nazi germany and warsaw the spoils the polish authorities also don't like that putin called their pre-war ambassador an anti semite despite the envoy's enthusiastic approval of hitler's plan to deport germany's jews to africa but of course it's all really just russia's plan to destroy poland's great reputation a lie that is repeated a 1000 times becomes the truth as google said today we're talking about an attempt to undermine confidence in poland in the eyes of the world community and the kremlin's intentions to sow division within the european union and nato putin seeks to portray poland as supposedly the not quite right part of the west while these very statements are part of propaganda preparations ahead of the 75th anniversary

of the liberation of auschwitz and the anniversary of the end of world war 2 could that mean israel's in cahoots with russia's propaganda plot to after all tell of eve didn't invite the polish president to speak at its auschwitz liberation ceremony he's decided to boycott the whole event in protest especially since vladimir putin is on the list of honored speakers it turns out that the presidents of russia. germany and france whose countries collaborated with nazi germany will speak but the organizers did not agree to a speech by the president of poland the ability to speak in regards to this matter is against the interests of the polish republic ok so poland doesn't want to rub shoulders with those abroad who don't support its historical narrative but at home the law gets tough if you're not on the same page anyone who publicly and contrary to the facts denies crimes referred to in article one shall be subject to find on

the penalty of imprisonment of up to 3 years the sentence shall be made public except the law only mentions the crimes of the nazis twice most of the text is reserved for describing the actions of the country's liberators for poland it's not so much a question about who the good or bad guys were now it's a mission to blur the lines between the 2 opposing ideologies fascism and communism as the 2nd world war fades from living memory the victim card becomes that much easier to play the interpretation and politicize ation of history was also touched upon today by russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov but with few pullens attempts to smear and law about our country both with regard to reasons and outcomes of the 2nd world war and attempts to know use these lies to undermine russia's position in the international arena a bone to continue we know for a fact that our polish colleagues are trying to get western countries attending the commemoration ceremony in jerusalem to poland's viewpoint on world war 2 you know

it's simply beyond the pale especially given the tragic context of the event. i was at that press conference for a swell of rough made his remark. time after time at this press event the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov it seems had nor their choice but to keep talking about washington's behavior in terms of how it deals with other countries according to the tactic of constantly building up pressure while at the same time turning a blind eye on the international law it's not only that it hasn't changed in the previous year but actually expand it take for example the russia japan relations moscow believes that they have fallen victim to washington's alliance with tokyo which according to circle of rob is being used by the americans to continue convincing the rest of the world that russia is an enemy and

a threat you can get that you put in is hosting us anti missile defense systems and our japanese colleagues have been telling us all along it's meant as defense against the korean threats and that's only the japanese military will have control over it but it's the very same u.s. launches that have been tested by the u.s. not only for launching anti missile defensive but also offensive missiles and have a look at the u.s. military strategy they are cooling russia a rival so we can't help but worry moving on to syria mr lavrov proudly pointed out that the conflict and that country was in the final stage of its resolution the final stage of the and the civil war there however mr loughborough of did blame other countries mainly western countries for setting preconditions before they could start actually helping the country out for instance when it comes to assisting the refugees that could come back to the country or providing the ability to deliver humanitarian aid there plus sergey lavrov did point out that there is

still a threat of the islamic terrorists hands being taught as a result of the mistakes deliberate or not by some of the forces on the ground which. are allied to the us. and on the east and bank of the euphrates around 10000 i still militants if i'm not mistaken are being held in detention camps by the syrian democratic forces who control those areas these are mainly could wish for isis and receiving a lawman reports which were currently double checking that these fighters are releasing these terrorists in exchange for bribes and they are beginning to spread across syria the information is very alarming and we've long american partners who have sway over the as the if of the need to make sure that militants are not allowed to escape those camps well this brings me to what proved to be the shortest

answer of the russian foreign minister at this press conference and i guess it could serve as a lesson for the future generations of journalists don't ask sergey lavrov about impeachment proceedings and other countries because he's not in charge of that. on tuesday this huge against president trump is expected to get under way in this setting many in the west say this could weaken u.s. support for ukraine as transcending russia's position how could you comment on that we don't know who the impeachment is in the us you're american you would know better than me going back to internal conflicts in all parts of the world and protest movements that moscow believes are being fueled by some of the nato countries and nato is head master in particular circular of said that he doesn't think the situation will anyhow change in 2020 but that doesn't mean that moscow will stop its attempts to try and talk and still somehow cooperate. the iran

nuclear treaty was among other topics addressed by the russian foreign minister on tuesday to ron's european partners triggered a 60 day mechanism that could potentially kill off the ill fated agreements however it turns out they did so under the threat of economic pressure from president trump who pulled the u.s. out of the deal in 2018 lavrov slammed washington for applying double standards towards its partners. so again lover of their clearly very unhappy with what he sees as pressure being placed on the european nations involved in the iran nuclear deal to activate this clause that's known as the dispute resolution mechanism that ultimately could well bring about the well collapse of the whole or any a nuclear deal those words from the russian foreign minister somewhat echoed by the iranian supreme leader who is scathing in his criticism of britain france and germany the u.k.

germany and france are doing nothing they will serve us interests they just puppets while london paris and berlin may not agree with the comments that they are the puppets of the united states the news coming out of lynn certainly is that there was pressure put on those european capitals to well adhere to what the united states wanted and it could. use the current german defense minister and widely tipped as a potential successor to anglo-american as chancellor one she calls it a day she said that yes there was a threat of a 25 percent tariff being placed on european imports of cars and car parts into the united states obviously that would be well almost catastrophic lee expensive for european car manufacturers particularly those big car manufacturers here in germany while britain france and germany moved to activate this clause in the iranian nuclear deal their respective foreign ministers issued

a joint statement saying that they were still confident still had hope that the iran nuclear deal could survive we have therefore been left with no choice given iran's actions but to register today our concerns that iran is not meeting its commitments we do this in good faith with the overarching to object to of preserving the j. c.p.o. a well away from how much pressure was put on european nations to trigger this. clause in the nuclear deal what that clause being triggered actually means is that in around 60 days time the united nations could really impose sanctions on iran if that happens that's pretty much the death knell for the uranium nuclear deal something that would be cheated in washington the united states and donald trump in particular very keen to see the collapse of this deal it was donald trump who pulled the u.s. out of the deal back in 2018 back in may of that year and since then has actively

worked to try and see it collapse senior u.s. official tells congress that the american public has been systematically lied to about the war in afghanistan we have our story and more coming up after this break .

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there. welcome back british police knew the children were suffering the most profound sexual abuse in the northern city of manchester fell to protect them as the finding of a new report officers in 2004 launched operation or gust to investigate the issue but

the report requested by the crime commissioner as the probe was prematurely closed down before it could complete its work. but. but. it was. a it was. a it what. was it like you. look you. the official investigation was closed due to lack of resources but was

a blow maggie oliver a former manchester police detective who worked on operation ore gusto says there were other reasons the decision to close down operation orchestra was driven by the decision of senior officers to remove the resources from the investigation this was because it was a very complex investigation but there were other factors involved in the decision to close it down there was definitely an element of concern about the ethnicity of the offenders being pakistani man and the children being very vulnerable white children there was also the resources issue and because it's very labor intensive it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of commitment from an organization to resource a job like this and also and there was a focus on what we call acquisitive crime so burglar is theft from motor vehicle robberies if somebody reported that kind of a crime to the police you would get

a 1st class response if you were a child being raped it wasn't being reflected. in performance indicators hence the police did not respond the initial investigation was triggered by the death of victoria golyer she was in the care of manchester city council after her mother's death the girl was subjected to sexual assault and injected with heroin by a 50 year old man the report says that carers knew that abuse was going on but did not act or police failed to bring the perpetrators to justice 15 year old victoria died after being administered a heroin overdose victoria's grandmother says this since her death she's been battling to find out the truth. she was such a lovely girl she didn't deserve to die i've been fighting all my life for this she told me herself what these men had done to her. the authorities knew that many victims were being subjected to the most profound abuse and exploitation but did

not protect them from the perpetrators as a result very few of the relevant perpetrators were brought to justice and neither were their activities disrupted this is a depressingly familiar picture and has been seen in many other towns and cities across the country or forties have now launched a criminal investigation following the report's findings the chief constable of manchester police has offered his condolences to the victims adding that officers will do everything to get justice for the children was a blow maggie all over again one senior police and other officials themselves to be investigated. this coverup that's the only word there is for it was absolutely deliberate this report this review it's an independent 3 view makes it crystal clear that this was a deliberate cover up there was a reluctance to acknowledge that it was pakistani men predominantly who were

abusing vulnerable young children and their young children that became the political hot potato it was often said that these kids of 11 and 12 were making a lifestyle choice that they were working as prostitutes that they were kids that is never the case they were vulnerable kids who we had a duty to protect and they all surratt is failed time and time again to do that this is criminal neglect in my opinion it is misconduct in a public office at the highest level and i want to see accountability criminal charges brought against senior police officers senior social workers and potentially going right up to the government if culpability can be shown there for the neglect of people in public office. the u.s. congress has been told that washington has routinely lied about the afghan war

america's top official responsible for afghanistan's reconstruction also said the public had been given exile gyrated reports on successes in the country his congressional testimony comes after the of comes after the washington post released these so-called afghan papers in december these detail years of deliberate disinform ation about the war of more on this because live to our correspondent caleb morgan kaleb what else was congress told. well law is about progress in afghanistan seems to be the focus of what we've been hearing from the report of the top of fishel in washington regarding the issue of afghan reconstruction let's take a listen the problem is there's a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost require or for people to learn there's an odor of mendacity

throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and who bruce now this testimony and these revelations they come from the special inspector general in his testimony to congress just one month after the publishing by the washington post of the afghanistan papers which is a trove of documents from the special inspector general's office now the papers show that america's top officials responsible for the war didn't really have a strategy or really a proper understanding of the situation in afghanistan and that that really didn't give washington a chance to win the war here's actually how one of the generals who was leading operations in afghanistan under the bush administration as well as the obama administration describe the situation. would trying to do we didn't have the full

goose newsham that would ruin the taking there is a fundamental gap in distancing of the front and over stated objectives. in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and now the public was kept in the dark about these realities and instead of being told the truth about the situation said reports about alleged progress to getting the impression that things were getting better and that this probably led to thousands of deaths on both sides of the conflict instead of telling the truth it was just a constant stream of alleged progress reports here's some of what we heard. in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. and we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. that i set to defeat al qaeda and tonight a chance to rebuild is within reach and we're doing

a tremendous job. and as you know a big part of the job is isis certainly the biggest. and we. we've got him down very low numbers now u.s. troops have been in afghanistan for 17 years making it the longest war in all of us history at this point and as the war continues and as these new revelations reveal some aspects of the war that were kept from the public it's also very apparent that most of the top officials in washington don't seem to have any exit strategy for the united states from the country. thank you for those details that sati think. we heard from on right a retired u.s. army colonel and former u.s. diplomat who resigned in opposition to the war in iraq she says it's time for the u.s. to withdraw from afghanistan. we've been told so many times by american generals that we've now burned or are there everything is going to get better in afghanistan

that we've actually gone in a circle that explains a lot in the people who are in the formal and say sure oh responsible for progress in afghanistan they don't want to jeopardize their career by saying oops it's not going well in fact we're not thinking in progress i think it is definitely time for the united states to remove its troops we've been there 18 years so we have killed over 150000 afghans some of whom are taleban some of whom are you know various militia groups but the many great majority are afghan civilians who only want peace in their country something they really haven't shared and so long but certainly as a senior official start telling the truth and say it is time for the afghans themselves to take control of their own destiny. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international and to get in touch if you have anything said about any of our

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