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holocaust survivors say it is vital not. really saved. my mother or other prisoners. computer programmer accused by the us billions of dollars. extradited from greece to france. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. dozens of world leaders and the dignitaries gathered in jerusalem on thursday to commemorate the holocaust and

bring attention to a modern day a resurgence of anti-semitism in this comes before the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz. my dear family i'm writing this letter before my death i don't know exactly when me and my relatives are going to die just because we're jews i'm in a concentration camp before all of us will be shot in a shelter thursday 4 am 16942 very well to you all. but i am barack. the other thing i wanted to tell you was that i had several jobs in birkenau in auschwitz one of the jobs was clearing the ashes from where they bug juice through a tunnel to a small river. i worked there together with another guy who was already old and he

was 32 and i was 16. i didn't know what these ashes were. one day when i saw it in day what i offer. what is the job we're doing so he told me what it was. not me. blush. and never forget it every morning i look at my hands and see well i have the number here and i see it every day at a time in the. world leaders at the holocaust memorial forums spoke about the importance of remembering at the horrors of what happened during

a solemn ceremony. that was a performance by musicians from around the world who led by conductor vladimir spoke of the event was broadcast live online in 6 different languages and president putin gave a speech describing the holocaust as one of the darkest moments the world has ever seen. before my visit to drusilla i looked through the official documents and reports of red army offices after the liberation of auschwitz concentration camps i must say dick colleagues it was impossible to read the details of how the merciless machine of people extermination worked these crimes conducted by the nazis were deliberate and well planned what they called the resolution of the jewish issue is

one of the darkest emotion full pages in modern world history israel is hosting its largest if the international forum more than 45 world leaders are here in jerusalem attending the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz now amongst those who addressed the crowd was the russian president vladimir putin he said it was the soviet army who brought to an end the crimes of the nazis but that it came at such a huge price some serious some $27000000.00 soviet citizens who had died at the same time he said that russia stands for truth and justice for me invited those countries of the world who have held those valleys to stand alongside with ed he proposed to me shin of the permanent members of the un security council to be held this year and he offered russia as the host country to deal with these kind of issues and make sure that such horrendous atrocities do not happen again and use whatever the scheme blown them 1st of all it was the soviet people who ended the barbaric plans of the nazis as it's been already mentioned. here they predicted

their own land and liberated europe from marxism we paid for this with the price that had never come in the worst nightmares of any nation $27000000.00 people killed we will never forget this but despite a 2nd feiss there are those who do not see the soviet union as a liberator in a somewhat damming opinion a piece the polish prime minister say that russia was not a liberator but had actually condoned and assisted nazi germany now the polish president declined his invitation to attend the ceremony because he was not afforded the opportunity to speak like was the russian president and i was the official organizer you have a shame say that he had been asked to speak at a separate event the russian ministry of foreign affairs has come up quite strongly against the canes made by the polish media is saying that they are essentially rewriting history and that it's a known fact that russia was the army in the country responsible for liberation

both auschwitz and poland and the israeli foreign minister agrees i want to personally thank you for the fact that the red army free down schmidt's and helped in the victory over the nazis because my mother was one of those detained and was liberated by the red army relatives of those liberated from the camp know who freed them the israeli president has said that the history of the 2nd world war and the holocaust should be lifted historians one moring statistic to come forward is the fact that a large number of youngsters have had seen the show or know very little about the 2nd world war auschwitz and the holocaust caught up with it in here in israel who are trying to change that from the ashes of the auschwitz concentration camp emerged to woods never again. through the generations as warning in a few days when it comes remembrance day will be commemorated around the world the

tragedy of $6000000.00 jews who were tortured to gas. and burnt in concentration camps will be remembered but for how much longer according to recent reports as many as 66 percent of millennial cannot identify auschwitz and almost often cannot even name one concentration camp some don't even know what the holocaust was these be multiple cases of people disrespecting concentration camps with a sophie's something that so people named and shamed by the controversial your low cost project increasing needs falling on the younger generation to make sure the atrocities of the holocaust are not forgotten like it was going over its whose grandfather was a survivor outraged by recent studies showing the ignorance of 1000000 meals he set up a project called humans of the holocaust what i'm trying to do this project is actually you know to go on for and to better educate people about what happened in the holocaust and i'm trying to do it in a different angle trying to because we're speaking about me but i mean it's you know today you have twitter and you have instagram and you have and you have so

much information flow and you have to get the attention of the young generation humans of the holocaust is a project that tells the stories of survivors and their children they speak about the years in camps and how they've lived with this experience off towards some young people have come up with unusual ways of remembering the relatives my grandfather was. a hero for me he was a very very big part in my life from when i was a baby i asked him before i did so he asked why why young girl like you want to do number of holocaust in your head i taught him that i want to keep the story alive to tell my kids to tell my grandkids i'm very confident of its wants to expand his project with more human stories so the would we remember and never forget i would you for example add there is

a holocaust survivor named google like there he told me that. only thing that actually kept him going while he was in the holocaust was sense of humor and he suggested that we will take a speech or holding a boom in the shape of the badge the jews were forced to put on their sleeves during the holocaust and in the beginning i wasn't sure that this is exactly the picture that i want to portray you know in this exhibition that when we took the picture and when he actually you know to the moon we actually embraced it and he was so happy he had the this huge smile the space you know everything connected because his message is that is no matter what is happening actually in your life if you will to use your sense of humor you will find the resilience to actually you know to keep forward i'm sure when stories that people will be able to actually to lead to and my hope is that you know the people you know with will see that exhibition they will do their own research and it will try to figure out why the holocaust happened and what are the lessons that we're all supposed to learn from

you know from the history. and running during which. on monday poland will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp and the following is a story of a man who survived the horrors there lot of atsic he was actually born in the concentration camp and managed to survive along with his mother we spoke with him about the liberation of auschwitz. on your mortgage and people tell us but there was no liberation they say so if there was no red army then there wouldn't be me or other prisoners oh my mother i have never questioned the merits of these soldiers i have always been grateful the prime minister and the president criticized the red army equally it was the same under previous authorities know the admit there was a liberation of auschwitz but at the same time they say there was no liberation of

war so recall that the 2nd occupation. was liberated but that was so and other cities were not i don't know maybe the americans liberated them we discussed the issue of shifting perceptions of the 2nd world war with a number of observers here is what they shared with us this is a classic case of distortion of history if you try and deny the that only the fact that those who read ot me liberated auschwitz but the incredibly enormous role played by the red army in the defeat of nazi ism the other hand you can understand why people who were liberated from that seas but later had had to endure a soviet system don't feel that they were really liberated there was one person whose response of world war 2 and that. there's one country that has bonds of a world war 2 and that's not the germany it's one of those cases in history where

the war didn't think quite accidentally it wasn't a mistake it's one of the clearest cases of good versus evil but we have a. situation in the world frankly where facts don't seem to matter anymore people are rewriting facts just to fit their particular narrative and we find that particularly among nationalists the soviet people bled more than anyone else during world war 2 the soviets gave up more in terms of men fighting and civilians who died than any other country during world war 2 and if it wasn't for the soviet union i have serious doubts whether had loaded been defeated and i don't think anyone can really question that yes the united states was also of course key and it wasn't for the united states's industrial might the soviet union might not have hung on during the war but the united states provided the industry and invited soldiers too obviously many americans were killed but the united states divided the industry the planes the tanks etc in the soviet union bled and for and bled and defeated the nazis on the battlefield. the russian computer programmer accused

by the us of laundering billions of dollars in bitcoin has been extradited to france from greece this according to his lawyer she claims her client was unlawfully taken from a hospital where he was being treated after being on hunger strike for more than a month zoe constantinople who spoke to r.t. . alexander disappear today he was taken by police forces who ordered the doctors to release him even though he was exhausted and on the 35 day hunger strike as his lawyer i assure you that they had no right to take him because today's decision by the supreme court was not executable i have been in contact with all competent greek authorities today and until 930 nobody knew where alexander was it was confirmed to me by my french call

that alexander vinick is already in france in the hospital they will try to interrogate him at this state where he has been barred from communicating with me since yesterday night his rights are being violated i'm sure his very afraid and terrorized by this procedure because he had absolutely no information on what happened there has been a court decision which was available after 4 o'clock but this is not a decision which allows extradition however it is proven that he was moved to france before even this decision was issued this is a non lawful procedure against a human being who is entitle to his rights and dignity some background now on the story for you 40 year old alexander vinick was arrested in 2017 u.s.

accuses him of founding a digital currency exchange that facilitated cyber crime and drug dealing and the french authorities claim he carried out cyber fraud from his prison cell moscow wants to question him as well on similar charges on thursday greece approved his extradition to all 3 countries. before the latest ruling russia's foreign minister criticized the greek authorities for refusing to examine the evidence presented by moscow and earlier this month alexander vinick claimed he had been tortured while in greece 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 a block just because of what i know and my technological abilities alexander vinokourov lawyer again talked to us or talk us through the next stages in

defending her quiet. i am now in contact with my french court liquids already at the hospital where alexander has been transferred all year in paris i have already filed a letter with the judges of investigation in order not to examine him in these conditions during the night while he's exhausted and he does know what's happening because i had no time to even inform him of the court decision my asking therefore with my letter the judges to respect human rights law and respect procedure give postponement of his hearing and not do not hear him in this frail condition and of course we have already made an appeal to the united nations working group against arbitrary detention we are still waiting for them to take action it's very important that alexander be protected and we will exhaust and me legal procedure

and anything that we can do to protect this individual because when alexander's rights are violated everybody's rights are violated. the landmark ruling by the united nations has stated that climate change or climate refugees cannot be sent from their home sent home from countries excuse me that they are seeking asylum and if their lives are in danger the judgment sets a precedent for future aquariums. the committees of give you the boss national and international efforts the effects of climate change you receiving states may dispose individuals to a violation of their rights thereby triggering dinara full my obligations of sending states where the case was brought by an islander from your body in the pacific ocean who claimed he was in danger due to rising sea levels he applied for asylum in new zealand but was rejected he also failed at the un but the case set

a precedent that others could apply the world body ruled that the climate crisis could expose individuals to a violation of their rights and that states couldn't legally send refugees back to their countries of origin germany's interior ministry has spoken out against the u.s. ruling most studies suggest environmental change is a trigger but not the sole cause of migration decisions political commentator david vance and former leader of the wales green party. gave us their views on the story. i think the u.n. ruling is a good one we're going to see millions and millions of people maybe 300000000 people. fleeing climate change where the through starvation or drought storm flood to certification and we have to be ready for it we have to start talking about this here's the facts on this one 1st of all this is

a normal legal decision by the un human rights commission it's just another way till essential you exploit the un's puppet to advance open borders and you know even at the most obvious level i can't believe anyone swallows this kind of go this is not restricted to the developing broke world we have most of our cities i think there are something like 32 of the world's greatest cities largest cities are likely to be under water london new york it doesn't make any sense to. look at this in any way other than the fact that people will be on the move but pepper you've missed something you've just said so many of 4 leading cities are going to be under water so you see all these people coming from the less developed world i mean we can surely import them and submerge cities and therefore city submerged or i don't mean any right is suggesting that all these people what you're saying is

let's bring 3rd world people to submerge surveys doesn't make a lot of sense does it i didn't say anything i mean what i'm secure suggesting what i'm saying is what the scientists are saying is that we are going to have our own climate refugees the developing world it's not all flattened it's not all at sea level but it will. be necessary for many many people to start moving in all sorts of places in the world in all sorts of continents now most continents can deal with them internally but some can't well the fact of the matter is that this year. un human rights committee decision it isn't legal it's not binding every sensible country even germany is going to reject it so people like pepper can continue to dream on but what we need to do as a country is to protect our borders protect our people and look after our own simple as our. the us has threatened to impose tariffs on cars from the e.u.

of brussels goes ahead with a digital tax on us tech giants are to shoulda been reports now from bears. not being is a beethoven for me idea is give a little here get a lot there for global companies it's often a direct line to the heart of power for generations boozy lunches were once the fashion but now it seems did still giants more interested in offering up a cup of joe as it plans to introduce a digital tax take for it seems that the big 4 that google amazon facebook and apple are trying their best to cozy up to. i don't think it's a good idea to talk about politics or policy with a glass of wine in your hand and excellent food offered by a person who has clear interests to represent and then there is a little less transparent lobby because there are members of industry associations well they have consultants working for them so you talk to people who don't realize if they are representing the interests of google or facebook or silicon valley

because the names are different these lobbyists seem to have some very deep pockets according to transparency international in 2019 google spent some 8000000 euros trying to get into brussels good graces while the lobbying budgets of the big 4 have skyrocketed since 2014 so why is this new digital tax regime causing them such a headache well until recently most of giants paid their tax bill in the country where they're registered but as they've grown questions are being asked as to why they were paying tax income derived in individual countries their fronts led the charge by imposing the so-called attacks causing the trumpet ministration to go into a tailspin. but the companies are one of the british version of. if they're going to be taxed it's going to be.

gone and from say they're still talking things through. simply over a free couple from facebook other countries in europe are no gearing up to take a slice of the profits point even the brics you no longer agree with the e.u. on anything on the same page we plan to go ahead with our digital services tax it's really says it too is gearing up for digital tax leaving the us to throw more threats of tariffs as if they're like a buy one get one free offer we've been pretty clear that we think that the digital touches discriminatory in nature but it seems with a new terror threat so almost a weekly basis from the trumpet ministration the french a boy by the idea of safety in numbers predicted what will they do tomorrow go off to austria and spain italy the united kingdom all the other countries across the globe that will implement digital tax we're going to order global trade which is in

nobody's interest and the result is not worth the effort it's taken them a while but it does appear that all e.u. countries are now on the same page all in agreement that they should be taxing digital giants which means if no agreement is made globally in the next few months starting with talks in paris next week the us and e.u. the old allies could find themselves going head to head jollity pinski r.t. paris does it for me this hour i'll be back with headlines in about 35 minutes stay with us as our 2 international. many call the impeachment trial of donald trump in the u.s. senate a political show well if it is it's not buried entertaining in fact it's quite boring repetitive and tedious clearly this entire process is

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greetings in salyut asia it's like a good political thriller the twists and turns surrounding the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and their investigations and the alleged chemical weapons strikes back on april 7th of 2018 and duma syria just keeps getting ever ever ever more fascinating auk watchers you see this week at a united nations security council meeting that was convened by the russian permanent representative on the council in henderson the former long time o.p.c. w. employee whose recent revelations are at the heart of all the controversy you've been hearing about spoke to the security council be a video here is a small snippet of some of the very fascinating things you had to say. the findings in the final that sent them reports. contradictory to compete. with the team. connectivity. journey to the.

developments. and by the time. release of the interim report in july 2018 understanding was that we had serious misgivings that a chemical attack had. but that's not what they were they reported when they released that report they didn't say anything about serious misgivings remember it was the o.p.c. w.'s report that a chemical strike had occurred that the us government and others paraded around to justify their military strikes against the syrian government in response to the alleged chemical weapons strike by assad not surprisingly there has been barely a whisper even a muster burp in the us mainstream news media about henderson's recent testimony and the ongoing controversy accusations of evidence suppressing being directed at the o p c w so today my friends.