thank you. when i get out on the foreign soil you're going to take more songs with . this in hope for the bless her. friday marks the 75th anniversary of the soviet union's 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. the pentagon reacts stanky sections that washington has routinely lied about america's longest war made by the top u.s. official overseeing afghanistan's reconstruction. and tehran of brands its former partners washington's pockets after germany confirmed it caved in to trump's threat to impose tariffs on european states if they don't quit the 2015 nuclear deal.

you're watching r t international armors on a long thank you for joining us. moscow has marked the 75th anniversary of the soviet union's liberation of warsaw nazi germany with a large firework display in all more than 3000 following the russian capital skyline morsel was all queued pint by nazi germany 6 years some 200000 soviet soldiers gave 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 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 sea invaders once and for all. our troops a great seat by local police to proceed to the streets to salute how soldiers nothing says what she is an expression woman creates a teacher liberate the city from nazi occupation. chez watt flew and off he was a young boy when the nazis seized warsaw here's how he describes life under occupation. we're not sure sure sure i didn't know were gay when i was 11 years old and it came when expectedly 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 holes were all around you so the day became worse from

the 10th of january and now it's a plane stop 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 street 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 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 that it should do everything to do as much harm a spa civil to the occupier in august 944 the polish resistance rose up against the occupies the warsaw uprising also 63 days before being put down by the nazis at

least 150000 people believed to have died and some in poland now accuse soviet forces of actually contributing to the failure of the warsaw uprising by not helping while others betrayed the soviet union as all those who bore little difference to the nazis however a trove of recently declassified wartime documents point to a difference the dollar as donald call to 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 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 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 other 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. well this day is not officially celebrated in poland but we spoke to people in warsaw who had gathered to commemorate the liberation. of. 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 dude stuck in my memory same as generous 70 and the date of the liberation of warsaw. while the interpretation and politicization of history was also touched upon on friday by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. but with q. pulling the terms to me and lie about our country both with 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 arty's ilya patrik i was at that press conference for us well after i've made his remarks. time after time at this press event the russian foreign minister. 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 struggle 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

all 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 and that country was in the final stage of its resolution the final stage of 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 sergei 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 u.s. if the producer on the. some 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 heir 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. 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 yet 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 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. on the iran nuclear treaty was among other topics addressed by the russian foreign minister on tuesday terrence european partners to get 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 never of slammed washington for applying double standards towards its partners so a gay 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 some were echoed by the iranian supreme leader who was 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 the so-called supremely leader of iran who has not been

so supreme lately had some nasty things to say about the united states and europe their economy is crashing and their people are suffering he should be very careful with his words 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 it here to what the united states wanted and a good outcome can. whose the current german defense minister and 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 faith with the overarching do 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 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. and other news this hour 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 up to america's top official responsible for afghanistan's reconstruction told the u.s. congress that washington has routinely lied about the war by eggs. to reports on successes in the country he's capable of and has more on this 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 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 in the 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 and 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. well our guests a retired u.s.

army colonel and an investigative journalist say the revelations come as no surprise we've been told so many times by. those that we've now burned that were there everything is going to get better and can't stand that we've actually done in a circle with their current explains a lot of people who are. informal and say sure we know responsible who work. for progressives there are errors there they don't want to jeopardize their career for 3 weeks it's not going well in fact we are not in progress i think it is definitely time for the united states to remove its troops we've been there 80 years we have killed over 150000 afghans some of whom are colophon some of whom are you know various militia groups in 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 these 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 defiant nobody has any idea what it would be a victory is to continue losing for another year. a russian a programmer who was arrested a grease 2 and a half years ago at the request of the u.s. and that is he's being tortured in greek prison and xander vinick is wanted in the u.s. from edge cyber crimes and money laundering and 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 am 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 of an it was arrested in 2017 the u.s. accuses him of laundering billions of dollars through a digital currency exchange he's also want to buy france which claims when it carried out cyber fraud from his greek prison cell and russia also wants to question him greece has in fact approved to all 3 countries an extradition treaty and we've discussed in its case with his attorney and former president of the greek parliament zoe constant aapl who he thinks his detention is both an embarrassment for greece and a violation of human rights. the case of alexander v make is a case of blatant violations of human rights it's an

international disgrace 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 alexander is not a criminal alexander is someone who has extremely high skills technological skills and blocked chain technology 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. exchanges of the people what is worse is that during the last days the conditions of detention of on xander make amounts to cruel and inhuman treatment which is a form of torture as we all know i look zander is being denied the right to go

outside his. hospital room he's been hospitalized during the last 12 months more than 12 months actually and today his mother who came to visit him from russia was the 9 the ride to see her son. about is you know news update for now will be back here in around 30 minutes time with a roundup of the headlines we'll see that. i'm

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