friday marks the 75th anniversary of the thought that unions liberation of warsaw from nazi germany thousands was stoned to death camps all lost their lives in a city that suffered years of occupation during the 2nd world war. the pentagon reacts to accusations that washington has routinely lied about america's longest war made by the top u.s. official overseeing afghanistan's reconstruction. to run grounds is for many e.u. partners that washington's puppets after germany confirmed it caved into trump's threat to impose tariffs on fewer appeared in states if they don't quit the 2015 nuclear deal.

very well welcome to you watching r.t. international with me nikki. moscow has marked the 75th anniversary of the soviet union's liberation of warsaw from nazi germany with a large firework display and all more than 3000 fireworks lit up the russian capital skyline warsaw was occupied by nazi germany for 6 years 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 underage building remaining in warsaw objects of historical and cultural heritage plundered. it is with great joy but i'm reporting to you that today on january the 7945 joint

forces of the soviet army is close the russian front and the polish 1st army have successfully completed an offensive operation overturning movement and have liberated the city of warsaw from the syrian raiders once and for all. our troops are critiqued by local police to polarize into the streets to salute tell shoulders nothing says but she is in its 1st woman great city to liberate the city from nazi occupation. has wife lewandowski was a young boy when the nazis seized warsaw here's how he described life and the occupation. we're not sure sure sure do know word came when i was 11 years old and it came unexpectedly it started with an i aerial bombardment we didn't even know that this could all be real like

a bolt from the blue the bombs were falling out from the sky and your family and friends were dying blood and how this work all around you so they'd stayed became warse from the 10th of january to announce a plane stop conducting but large ones but they started dropping incendiary shelf 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 ride a trend as no one knew where the germans might stop a person and take him somewhere terrible this is the move most of. 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 a spa civil to the occupier. in august 944 the polish resistance rose up

against the occupying of the warsaw uprising lasted 63 days before being put down by the nazis at least 150000 people have believed to have died. some in poland is now accused forces of actually contribution to the failure of the warsaw uprising by not helping others to try the soviet union as the occupy is able little difference to the nazis however a trove of recently declassified wartime documents point to a different scenario as donald caught of. 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 astonishing and terrifying atrocities in poland evidence of human death and suffering was everywhere posed 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 envoys 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 should. germany and friends 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 all of 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 countries 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. this day is not officially celebrated in poland we spoke to people in warsaw had gathered to commemorate the liberation. this state has always been very important to us and solemnly celebrated this is changed over the last 5 to 6 years why i do not know these are political matters it can be interpreted differently the role of the red army in the liberation of warsaw was enormous the polish army that accompanied the red army was a component parts of these forces but the predominant force was the red army.

every year fewer and fewer people remember about those events it's sad because it's our story the nation should know his history and remember it it's sad to see change over the years but it's good that the ceremony continues and that at least a handful of people remember that. i was in the labor camp and brazil out of the city was surrounded the very much for it with the surrounding subject unit and on may 7th $945.00 i was liberated from this scam by red army soldiers this dude stuck in my memory same as generous 17th the date of the liberation of warsaw. the interpretation and politicize ation of history was also touched upon today by russia's foreign minister sergey laugh. what with your pulling the terms to me and lie about our country both was regard to reasons and outcomes of the 2nd world war and attempts to now use these lies to undermine russia's position in the

international arena abound 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. well as he's really trying to i was at that press conference for as well 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 the law is being used by the americans to continue convincing the rest of the world that russia is an enemy and a threat you can issue that should you put it is hosting us anti missile defense systems and the 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 in that country was in the final stage of its resolution the final stage of ending 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. our allies to the us at the. end on the eastern 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 kurdish fighters and receiving a lawman reports which we're 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 warned our american partners who have sway over the as of the need to make sure that i still 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 in other countries because he's not in charge of that. on tuesday this huge against president trial is expected to get underway in this setting many in the west say this could weaken your support for ukraine as trancing 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's headmaster in particular sort 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 terrans european partners triggered a 60 day mechanism that could potentially kill off the ill fated agreement however it turns out they did so under threat of economic pressure from president tran who pulled the u.s. out of the deal in 2080 lavrov slammed washington for applying double standards towards its partners. so a gay lover of the 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 some were echoed by

the iranian supreme leader who is scathing in his criticism of britain france and germany the u.k. germany and france doing nothing they will serve u.s. 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 berlin certainly is that there was pressure put on those european capitals to well it here to what the united states wanted and they could. use the current german defense minister widely tipped as a potential successor to one glimmer chancellor one she calls it a day she said that yes there was a threat of a 25 percent tariff beam. 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 face with the overarching do object to of preserving the j. c.p.o. a while away from how much pressure was put on european nations to trigger this clause in the nuclear deal what that clause been 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 uranian nuclear deal something that would be cheered 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. the pentagon has rejected accusations that america's military leadership was incentivizing lying to the public about how the afghan war was going and after america's top official responsible for afghanistan's reconstruction told us congress that washington has routinely lied about the war by exaggerated reports on think seth is in the country artie's kellam orpen has more on the story. washington's top official overseeing afghan reconstruction has revealed that the u.s. operations in afghanistan have been surrounded by lies about its progress here's what he said the problem is there is a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost

require or for people to lie 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 the pentagon has disputed some of what was said in the testimony of the special inspector here's their response the idea that there was some efforts to hide the truth the reality on the ground just doesn't hold water to this idea that they were somehow missed statements i don't think that really joel's 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 some of what we heard. would

trying to do we didn't have the full goose newsham the would move into taking through the fundamental get up and distancing of the front and the stated objectives. in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary now these new revelations come in congressional testimony that comes just roughly a month after the afghanistan papers were published by the washington post now these afghanistan papers were a trove of documents from the office of the inspector general now it's important to note that these documents essentially say that u.s. officials really didn't have any strategy for afghanistan and didn't really have an understanding of what was actually happening on the ground or an understanding of the country and the conditions there this is how it was put by a figure in the military who oversaw operations in afghanistan under the administrations of both bush and obama 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. all that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it 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. a russian programmer who was arrested in

greece 2 and a half years ago at the request of the u.s. alleges his being tortured in greek prison alexander vinick is wanted in the u.s. for alleged cyber crimes and money laundering he's now written a plea for help they're trying to use torture and psychological pressure to break me they do not allow me to breathe fresh air the last time they let me out for a walk for a few minutes was on new year's eve i'm a man without rights illegally imprisoned in greece for 30 months without charges they want to destroy me for my knowledge they want my head on the block just because of what i know and my technological abilities vinick was arrested in 2017 the u.s. accuses him of laundering billions of dollars through a digital currency exchange he's also wanted by france which claims even it carried out cyber fraud from his greek prison cell russia also wants to question him and greasers in fact to prove his extradition to all 3 countries. well let's cross live

now to zoe constanta. before the president of the greek parliament and alex on the phoenix defense attorney welcome to the program it's good to see you now we understand in december claims that the conditions of his detention in great prison had worsened he was not allowed to walk outside he couldn't spend more than half an hour with his mother what was the reason for this. let me begin by saying that the case of alexander vinick is a case of blatant violations of human rights it's an international disgrace it's a disgrace for my kountry greece which i served as president of parliament this man is being imprisoned for 13 months without a charge in greece he's not being prosecuted in greece without a sanction without a penalty without a trial he's he's imploring to go back to these countries to be extradited

to russia and yet the greek authorities for 29 months abstained from taking any decision and just. $25.00 days ago less than the month ago the minister of justice of greece issued. a decision which has no precedent whatsoever to extradite alexander to 3 count trees 1st of france then to the usa and then to russia this practically means that alexander may not see his 2 children of 5 and 8 years old until the are adults and this also may means that he might not see his wife who is suffering from cancer brain cancer and we don't know how long she will live what is worse is that. in the last days the conditions of

detention of on xander make amount to cruel and inhuman treatment which is a form of torture as we all know alexander is being denied the right to go outside his. hospital room he's been hospitalized during the last 12 months more than 12 months. and today his mother who came to visit him from russia was the night the right to see her son and i bet as you said he's complained that his treatment is tantamount to torture conditions that is being held in other appropriate for the crimes he's accused of. let me be very very. clear alexander is not a criminal alexander is. someone who has extremely high skills technological skills in blocked chain technology

he is someone who can therefore help liberate people from economical. control of bung of banks and governments and this is why in my opinion he's being targeted he's not targeted for any kind of criminal behavior because it's very clear that what he has done is not criminal however what he has done is very very annoying to those who wish to control the economic. exchanges of the people big corn is not a criminal. currency calling is legal and the fact that alexander was had the technical responsibility for a big corn exchange platform a big corn exchange site website does not make him a criminal at all so it does not. louth kountry is in which alexander has never had

set his foot because he has never been to france he has never been to the u.s. this is not a legitimate those contraries to ask for alexander's had on the platter so what are greece's main concerns in its case i mean why is it taking so long for them to decide what to do with him. my. my opinion actually my conviction is that the greek government is under the extreme pressure and the control of our so-called allies so the european union and the us say they're pressuring to take a leg zander to the usa and this unfortunately led to a decision which has no precedent whatsoever to. actually extradite and no known citizen to come trees to which to which he has

no links and did not want to extradite him to his country russia where he asks to be extradited i would. as i would like also to tell you that unfortunately in. alexander's case we also have during the last days very very grave case of miscarriage of justice because he was given judicial protection against extradition on the 23rd of december and on the 24th of december the president of greece's supreme administrative court took the case. from the judges who were considering it and expedited his trial for the 10th of january whereas the trial on his appeal not to be extra. and this person this president of the supreme court was.

promoted by the prime minister of greece and is now being proposed to become greece's president of the public so greece is head of state you understand the current of pressure a current of bending over rules that. we have time for just one a very short question would just like to ask what is alexander's current condition if he's still on a hunger strike how is he doing. alexander is on his 29th day of the 3rd hunger strike hughes in the very very bad condition he's. very fragile he maintains hold and he maintains the hope of citizens around the world who will support his claim and that

use kountry also will support him in his request for a fundamental human rights alexander has the right to be tried in his counter in his language and to prove that he is not a criminal thank you for coming on and bringing us an update on his case it is very constanza poorly for the president of the greek parliament and alexander of an expense attorney thank you. thank you to 100 r.t. we'd love to hear all your thoughts on all stories or do get in touch by following us on social media we're back at the top of the hour. join me every thursday on the elec so i will be sure and i'll be speaking to you after the world of politics or business i'm sure business.