who party marks the 75th anniversary of the soviet union's liberation of warsaw from nazi germany thousands were sent to death camps or 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. iran brands its former e.u. partners or washington's puppet after germany confounded caved into trump's threat to impose tariffs on european states if they don't quit the 2015 nuclear deal.

to a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with mina carrying aussie 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 up their lives to stop the brutal regime in the city and its surroundings. the 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 warsaw 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 fronts and the polish 1st army have successfully completed an offensive operation the turning movement and have

liberated the city of warsaw from that sea invaders once and for all. our troops are critiqued by local police who politely into the streets to salute tell soldiers and officers when she is an expression woman great city to liberate the city from nazi occupation. chose well flew and off he was a young boy when the nazis seized walsall here's how he describes life under occupation. there are no words when i was 11 years old and it came unexpectedly it started with an aerial bombardment i didn't even know that this could all be real like a bolt from the blue drums were falling out from the sky and your family and friends were dying blood and how were all around you no more became worse from the 10th of january and now it's a plane stop conducting but you aren't but they started dropping incendiary shelves

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 street you were afraid to go outside because the cars could have come and taken anyone you were afraid to write a trend as no one knew where the germans might stop a person and take him somewhere terrible so the members approached 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 under stude particularly in warsaw should do everything to do as much harm espouse a bill to the occupier in august 1944 the polish resistance rose up against the occupiers 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 poland now accuse soviet

forces of actually contribution to the failure of the warsaw uprising by not helping others persuade the soviet union as occupiers who bore little difference to the nazis however troia's of recently declassified wartime documents point to a different. quarter reports. 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 polish residents met so be it 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. 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 all 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 from 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 who 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 part 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 as 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 breslau 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 camp by red army soldiers this date 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 russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. pullens attempt to smear 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.

i was at that press conference for a while after i've 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 surrogate 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 u.s. 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 of 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 anding the civil war there however mr lab 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 tied 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 the 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 trump is expected to get under way in the senate many in the west say this could weaken your support for ukraine as transcending russia's position how could you comment on that i would know 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 and she is data runs european partners treat it as a 60 day mechanism that could potentially kill off the ill fated agreement 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 lover of slammed washington for applying double standards towards its partners. so 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 are 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 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 face with the overarching goujet to have 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 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 that's after america's top official responsible for afghanistan's reconstruction told the u.s. congress that washington was routinely lied about has routinely lied about the war by exaggerated reports on successes in the country r.t. with caleb more pain 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 fed 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 that would ruin the taking there is a 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. 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 reveals 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. guest the retired u.s. army colonel and an investigative journalist say the revelations come as no surprise. we've been told so many times by by american journalists that we've now burned them or they're everything is going to get better in your stand that we've

actually done in a circle and so on there explains a lot of people who are. informal and say sure oh responsible who work. for progressives there are errors there they don't want to jeopardize their career bursary. it's not going well and we're not 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 colophon some of whom are you know various militia groups the great majority are afghan civilians who only want peace here and there for free something they really here for care and so on the inspector general is speaking out after documents he tried to keep secret were leaked those words leaked after year after year after year of this same nonsense being repeated so it's possible for these things to build and steamrolled

but the united states has a has a president who campaigned on ending this war and is that out repeating the tired old lies that he's about to win it in a day which are not unique to this war that they come with every war every occupation and there's not even been a requirement that a victory be defined nobody has any idea what it would be a victory is to continue losing for another year. which is police new children were suffering the most profound sexual abuse in the northern city of manchester but failed to protect them that's the finding of a new reports offices in 2004 launched operation old justice to investigate the issue but the reports requested by the crime commission that the pride was prematurely closed down before it could complete its work. thank.

the official investigation was closed due to lack of resources but it was a blow and maggie all of a former manchester police detective who works on operational gustus 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 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 there was a focus on what we call acquisitive crime so burglaries 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 the 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 that 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 would these men have 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 and 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 37 are launched

a criminal investigation following the report's findings the chief constable of manchester police has offered his condolences to the victims and i think that officers will do everything to get justice for the children was a blow maggie all over again once senior police and other officials themselves to be investigated. this cover up and 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 knowledge that it was pakistani men predominantly who were abusing vulnerable young white children and very young children that became a 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 bad kids.

that is never the case they were vulnerable kids who we have a duty to protect and the all for it 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. a russian programmer who was arrested in greece 2 and a half years ago at the request of the u.s. alleges he is 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 when it 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 vinick carried out cyber fraud from his greek prison cell russia also wants to question him and greece has in fact approved his extradition to all 3 countries. but we discussed minix case with his attorney and former president of the greek parliament zoe constanta pillow he thinks if detention is both an embarrassment for greece under violation of human rights. the case of alexander vinick is a case of blatant violations of human rights it's an

international disgrace this man is been 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 alexander is not a criminal alexander is someone who has extremely high skills technological skills in block to interact knology he is 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.