sees factory of the concentration camp was liberated exactly 75 years ago by soviet forces the 7th of january has become an international. day in memory of the millions of jews killed. iran's top diplomat tells donald trump to focus on facts not mainstream headlines the u.s. president references u.s. news outlets in a tweet on to iran look at how washington uses language to shape a narrative around the middle eastern nation. and property owners in oakland will have to shelter for prisoners or face fines some to california's most progressive all of its kind so.

i welcome as well to international this morning i'm daniel hawkins revealed to me and from thanks for joining us on the program. monday marks an emotional day for many people around the world exactly 75 years ago the red army opened the gates in poland almost 100000000 people were brutally murdered at the nazi death camp in the most appalling tragedy of the holocaust liberation closed one of the most shameful chapters in history 75 years later the memories of those who survived are still painfully fresh. the a feeling you will see at the ball is a boy nazi soldiers entered it was in the winter it is at the moment that the mom

and i were in the village at that moment the nazi soldiers started drinking and bits were trying to the point that they began to pull the children from the 2nd floor did she might take you with us and shoot at them like targets. missing it that is. what it going to say we jumped from the windows into the snow drift and flat they shot at us at the local saved us. this is their left over we were sitting on the tram. that when a nazi soldier took a step forward someone shot him in the back of. the transmedia he surrounded they pushed us out and paced us against a wall. a boy whispered to me. i ran to the street to the left. there was a woman with a child. she took my hand i didn't know she was german that's typical stop her soldier she told him that i was her child and he let us go and i did my own

proposed deal. with that was that we were only wearing like dresses if they touched us to a convoy of prisoners it was a very moving without food and water with sic the name people where. when some people fall they shot them immediately. when we could not walk we had to carry each other. then we were slaughtered on the left with the sick the lame and old. my mom was just thrown to the right breast the king wanted but that at this and i could ignore it she shouted girls hold each other's hands all your life never bought these rare. last.

week it was it was kind of slow in fight once he was such a street that my sister he found just a wall and we wrote on the wall. we. were actually 3 death camps at the site auschwitz one was the main camp on the 1st to be set up again it says them of murder back and torture back in may 140 prisoners life began at the registration building where you know she was serious personal numbers from then on they became referred to by that number then there was assignment to the barracks which would be home as well as block 11 that's

a prison inside the prison used for torture the camp had a gas chamber execution will a death will be to all of a visited the site. many of those who passed through the camps infamous gate with its marking arbeit macht frei all work sets you free message survived only a few months a lot of those who arrived here it auschwitz birkenau will murder it immediately for others a more torturous lingering fate awaited as the subject of grotesque and obscene medical experiments over 1000000 people perished here the reichsbahn railway network was the arteries of the nazi war machine was also the mode of transportation used for what reich leadership with cold matter of factness called the final solution to the jewish question the extermination of european jews and

really those who were the 1st the people were loaded on the trains often and heated for a carriages sometimes people were transported impossible 3rd class passenger carriages they were advised to take all of their valuables with them and some food and warm clothes regardless of the time of year in other words people were led to believe that they were being taken for resettlement they used different tactics to trick people to make them let their guard down inmates had their heads shaved on a rival that was then packed up and shipped to german companies for use as a raw material gold teeth were also removed and barbaric fashion any possessions taken away suitcases shoes i lasses pots pans those not killed immediately put to work in a par and conditions for some that fell to fertilizing fields with the ash from bodies of those already murdered in cremated nazi authorities invested heavily in them a car charnel houses to make them as efficient as possible but we thought that there

was an attempt to destroy the whole race from babies to old people and to do it modern technology auschwitz amazes historians of visitors with this technology. hope today see was just for the purpose of killing people with gas as the end of the war reproached the soviet military closed in on territory which had spent 2 years under the jackbooted nazi occupation right officials in charge of the camps tried to cover up their crimes those inmates that could work were sent towards germany on what became known as death marches buildings were blown up and bodies burned sending huge plumes of smoke skyward it was these attempts to cover up what had been happening here that prompted savia generals to investigate what had been going on. with the book why do we say that liberating and saving the prisoners was truly a heroic deed because a marshal cohen

a commander of the 1st ukrainian front received intelligence on this horrific camp and how did they get this information because there was smoke the nazis were burning everything including bodies to raise all traces of their crimes so kind of adjusted the plan of the offensive and auschwitz liberated 2 days earlier than originally planned i have had many conversations with general vassily petrenko he was the commander of a division that took part in the liberation he told me his division was suddenly ordered to change the direction of the main attack so the president's going to be released after heavy fighting between retreating nazi forces and the red army the soviets were able to enter auschwitz birkenau on the 27th of january on entering the camp liberating troops found $7000.00 prisoners in dire need of medical attention however the hundreds of thousands of items of clothing and almost one ton of human hair betrayed the true extent of the crimes committed here you are putting

would have gotten the red army arrived and as soon as our journalists the soldiers saw the people from the camps they immediately realized they needed help so they started providing medical care there was a hospital with experience of treating mounir and stop. when patients from the besieged city of leningrad m a help save the lives of 7000 prisoners it would take extensive investigation of right correct cords and the site of the murder camps in order to determine the true scale of the horror the slaughter in 2005 the date of deliberation 27th of january was declared international holocaust remembrance day by the united nations acknowledging both the crimes of nazi germany and the actions of soviet troops in liberating the camp peter all over r.t. from auschwitz birkenau poland largest non-si death count was liberated at around 3 pm about 7000 prisoners was the live most were ill and dying according to various

estimates between 230 and 350 soviet soldiers also who died in combat while liberating the camp is how the liberation was viewed from different sides of the gate. the be. what you've got all the more you need to get up we had our temperature taken every morning other prisoners told us that offer this some might be done in the crime it's ori if we didn't know what that meant if someone had a high temperature that was it they were gone the. morning show called that but when we arrived we didn't realize it was a camp we could smell burning we had smelled something similar before but here it

was unusual acrid heavy after one crash we drove the germans out of the village and came out onto a field huge fenced with wire around the perimeter behind us barbed wire there were buildings like barracks we thought it was a german military base. level we were playing later we saw people behind the fences we were on a look because we didn't know who they were but they realized who we were and started making welcome signals with their hands.

will publish anything to ensure we so exhausted people they drag themselves out because of the cold. somewhere in blankets or rags we played it's. their eyes. we felt that they understood everything they understood that they were being liberated the hell that they had been kept and it was over for them. the ambulance began providing 1st aid to prisoners and kitchens also came. to see that. they put it in line and took us to the camp and that we thought they would shoot one day then 2 days and nobody came for 3 days we didn't know anything and suddenly they arrived in trucks put it in them and drove us to the

railway station we thought they would take to the premise but then we saw the train . we were waiting for liberation. saved we kept holding on to the end of my clearest memories from when the soviet came to liberate it was very moving we never thought about. a holocaust prison person alone was we usually 7 on their uniforms but as the number of executions grew it became hard to identify bodies after clothes were removed corpses were sometimes marked with indelible ink and metal stamps auschwitz

was the only camp to tattoo prisoners numbers to their arms and more than 400000 serial numbers were marked that doesn't include of course those who would never. marks and was sent directly to the gas chambers uniforms had badges primarily triangles to identify why the prisoner was there ranging from political views to criminal past to homosexuality jews had a double triangle resembling the star of david a jewish symbol rom a corset of has this report. i received exclusive access to the central archives of russia's federal security service these documents are a testament to the atrocities committed during the 2nd world war in just 4 years the nazis systematically murdered at least over a 1000000 people in auschwitz most of them jews and that's the official number those responsible didn't bother to keep records of the industrial scale of the slaughter i suppose there were around 3000000 people killed in auschwitz 2 and

a half 1000000 of them through gas chambers i myself never knew the total number and i have nothing to help me arrive at an estimate i can only remember the figures involved in the larger reactions however witness accounts in the russian federal security service archives show that those figures could be much higher by as much as millions as historian lemme car of points out the nazis did everything to conceal the extent of their atrocities was the muscle has been faces of mass destruction were carefully hidden trees were planted photos were seized taking footage of mass executions was prohibitive so based on the prisoner accounts the number could be up to 6000000. the newly declassified documents also paint a gruesome picture of the atrocities in the camp the contents of this file will send shivers down anyone's spine professor of going to college a car kloberg took pride in his work interest in files show that his research

included female sterilization experiments on children and prisoners contaminated with infectious diseases the patients were deliberately killed so autopsies could be carried out. to you and he thought he was doing it in the name of medicine in the name of healing people all these experiments were conducted mainly in accordance with the s.s. program to annihilate the peoples of occupied countries. gas chambers and mass shootings by the nazis were not the only means of systematic. thurman ation a large number died at the hands of the guards and supervisors who were picked from among the prisoners by the s.s. alfred's shipwreck a former member of the polish on the ground was in charge of a whole block in al shreds supervisors like him eager for money and an increase in daily rations we execute fellow prisoners and claim they tried to escape their reward to marks per day and some extra food i didn't report to anyone when

punishing the prisoners i did myself a bit there with a piece of rubber hose i kept it just for that in the winter people who had to be terminated were forced to work naked until they collapsed and died between 2 and 300 people died this way 3 female s.s. guards in this file were sentenced to death by the soviet union after their atrocities were exposed it to the. the sadists arrange so-called races prisoners carrying a heavy load were made to run 700 to 800 meters all while being beaten they dug out a pit about 60 meters long and 2 meters deep women would starve to death and their bodies were burnt in the same pits. after the liberation of auschwitz soviet counter-intelligence work meticulously to document and expose these crimes against humanity so that they would never be repeated among cos or have r.t. moscow.

donald trump and the iranian foreign minister have been trading barbs online it all started with the u.s. president's tweet addressing to iran where he referenced to u.s. use outlets the message was also translated in farsi though trump's attempt at that language didn't press iran's top diplomat. donald trump is better advised to base his foreign policy comments on decisions on facts rather than fox news headlines or farsi translators or trump several hours on mainstream media comes amid growing use by u.s. diplomats of catchphrases to form a narrative as r.t. senior correspondent laura does the earth explains. the reason slogans a superpowerful is because they're simple and dumb intentionally stupid and marketed to the lazy the average person never reads the fide print it's hard to sell them complicated things but if you give them

a stupid dumb shew good soup invent he can agree with hillside right up works with anything shoes drinks lections and even wars president said we don't want war we want iran to behave like a normal nation we are diplomatically and economically isolating their regime in iran in till they behave like a normal nation we will meet with them where want to sit down discuss without precondition a new way forward a a series of steps by which iran becomes a more normal country what does normal nation even mean nothing but it spreads the impression that iran isn't normal and if people believe it because of a dumb slogan you can do anything to the radiance and the public won't mind they've been at this for a decades and gone through a number of slogans around as the world's biggest dates bonsor of terror as far as iran goes this is the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world iran

remains the world's worst state sponsor of terrorism biggest sponsor of terror you think they did the math of course not but it's it's catchy scary and simple a drug for the uninformed all the know all they remember is what's in the slogan take syria you don't need to know what happened who's fighting whom why they're fighting all the need to know is in the slogan assad needs to go time for assad to get out of the way. has to go the future of syria can't include assad the world will not waver assad must go the only way of the civil war will end. is a new government without bashar assad and the thing with these phrases is they're catchy part of the reason why they work so well and the more people that catch on the better they work making countries like syria become places where people actually want to live means having

a government that's not terrorizing its people and that is why as sad must go we hope that these efforts will lead to a new syria with no rule for the shuttle a sit in that they have a slogan for everyone they don't like russia of course lots of nice little catch phrases ambiguous to the point of nonsense but catchy what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth i do feel a democracy under threat there's the challenge from without that is the russian challenge a major threat facing our great nation russia come to think of it you could call anything a threat to democracy social media with all its fake news bad weather that might prevent people from going to the polls but hey at least russia isn't a grave threat north korea is a worldwide threat that requires worldwide action in north korea has abandoned its

own commitments and violated international law and its nuclear and ballistic missile programs pose a grave threat to peace and security of asia and to the world in the end while it scares me isn't stupid slogans what scares me is how many people believe in that. a californian cities banning property owners from conducting criminal background checks on potential tenants oakland city council's move designed to tackle the homelessness crisis is set for a final reading on tuesday the target is to help 4 more criminals reintegrate into society and not end up on the street this ordinance is about making sure returning community members have equal opportunities they deserve to successfully reintegrate into our community and this begins with a roof over your head one of the ordinance landlords can be fined up to $1000.00

for breaking the rule until now of course background checks will routine make it almost impossible for people with criminal records to read accommodation but oakland has one of the highest homelessness rates in california the state with the country's largest homeless population the number of homeless in oakland has surged 47 percent in the last 3 years alone that's made over take nearby summer cisco berkeley as well there are now more than 4000 people without a roof over their head they're roughly one percent of the city's population and that number only one in 5 even have access to temporary shelter we discussed the issue with t.v. and radio host and prison legal news editor paul right. i think this is very irresponsible on behalf of the government behalf of city officials there's a rate of 3 offenders that's as high as 40 percent per people who've been in prison and the bottom line is that owners need to be informed they need to protect their property owners that's what this city is about this is not really

a correlation between people's criminal history and also there's there are levels of of re offense at all so many public safety issues one of them is that we know is that not having a job and not having a place to live increases research it was a race that in fact endangers public safety if the landlord can find a legitimate reason to deny someone a property to rent to them they're still able to do that they just can't use a blanket issue like a felony conviction or the background checked itself as the basis to deny housing civil liberties should not trump people's safety if we have freedom in america but you know what we can't just bend into p.c. culture that we're so worried about offending everybody that we're putting our own safety at risk as americans and it's something we have to take a good hard look at you know there are plenty of people that have a lot of missions on their record i happen to be one of them and i'll take responsibility for that although not here right now but if i was going to be renting a property i would have absolutely no problem explaining that to an owner that i

was going to have a relationship and rent from and i really think that that needs to be something that's looked at you know if there's a reason that we need to keep these histories hidden there is probably something to hide i think it's one thing to say that you know property owners have a right to rent to whom they wish to and another one of the if they're going to be renting they have to comply with laws to prohibit discrimination and i think there's a difference between. between having laws that allow for bonafide or legitimate concerns or says those that are just the basis for the land boards of bigotry or prejudices this is totally irresponsible to call this bigotry this is not bigotry. it's not the same thing discriminating against someone because of a choice that being made to commit a crime is entirely different than excluding somebody based on race how can we make that comparison and this is not going to solve this crisis and i think that's why i'm so upset about this this is really backwards because he is california as an

example since i was who we're talking about tens of thousands of people were convicted of possessing marijuana over the decades until recently marijuana was legalized are you going to use. those criminal convictions for marijuana possession or marijuana production or distribution when it was a crime are you going to use that as the basis to exclude people from housing today when that same activity is legal and i think in some respects the biggest form of discrimination for so much of this of course is the runts themselves in the bay area general in oakland are also high taxes its own form of discrimination the federally subsidized housing maybe would be somewhat of a solution for this because these people who are homeless are going to have a hard time renting no matter while lot of them are not working they are not employed they do not have the income to substantiate these rentals and it's irresponsible to the owners they are paying taxes and supporting this city it's just completely the world gone mad. that's where the news from across the world in

brief in china the number of deaths from the growth of our has risen to 82700 others have been infected health officials are warning the virus may have spread the risk of them sometimes don't show for days the outbreak which began more than a month ago has moved across the globe affecting countries including france canada and the united states. police in baghdad fired tear gas as thousands gathered for anti government rallies on sunday protestors were denouncing police brutality following saturday's protest where several people were killed and dozens injured more than 600 have died since demonstrations began in october with people coming out against corruption and social inequality. american basketball legend kobe bryant has died in a helicopter crash in california along with 8 others on board the private helicopter

went down in a field and burst into flames. the victims include bryant's 13 year old daughter. coming up in a few minutes crosstalk exploring a preachment for tikkun for u.k. view is that our documentary channel gives you a ringside view of russian drift series back in half an hour with the latest.

you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. who are all those driven by shaped by.

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