i i i. i. was liberated exactly 75 years ago by soviet forces 27th of january has become international remembrance day memory of the millions of jews killed. a u.s. army veteran calling himself. his influence on bolivia's politics by swamping social media with his money as. a 2nd. city of oakland will have to shelter former prisoners or face fines under the state's most aggressive lore of its kind so far.

from moscow thanks for joining us and. welcome to the program. a monday marks an emotional day for many around the world exactly 75 years ago the red army liberated auschwitz death camp in poland almost 1100000 people lost their lives at the nazi sites in the most appalling tragedy of the holocaust liberation closed one of the most shameful chapters in history. well there were actually 3 death camps at the site one was one to start its system of murder and torture back in may 940 prisoners life began at the registration building where he or she received personal numbers and from then on became referred to by that number then there was assignment to the barracks which would be home as well as block 11 prison inside the prison used for torture the camp had

a gas chamber trattoria and execution will. well dubbed the death wall that's now the place where memorial wreaths are placed on monday cap survivors visited the site to commemorate the victims it's estimated that nearly $200.00 former prisoners from around the world will also take part in the memorial service it's all over visited the camp. many of those who passed through the camps infamous gate with its mocking arbeit macht frei all work sets you free message survived only a few months the reichsbahn railway network was the arteries of the nazi war machine it 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 freight carriages sometimes people were transported in possible 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 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 in 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 incriminated but we knew 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 how up today she 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. years under the jackbooted nazi occupation reich 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 soviet 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 was liberated 2 days earlier than they

originally planned on entering the camp liberating troops found 7000 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 would put it would have gotten the red army arrived and as soon as a journalist or 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 mao nourished and starving patients from the besieged city of leningrad and that helps save the lives of 7000 prisoners 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 of a r.t. for the auschwitz birkenau pod. a low cost prison his personal number was usually

sold all their uniforms but as the number of executions grew it became hard to identify bodies of clothes were removed corpses were sometimes marked with indelible ink and metal stamps auschwitz was the only camp to tattoo prisoners numbers on their arms and more than 400000 serial numbers were created that doesn't include those never stamped but sent directly to the gas chambers uniforms had badges primarily triangles for them to fight why the prisoner was there ranging from their political views to criminal past or even homosexuality jews had a double triangle representing the star of david a jewish symbol 75 years on memories of those who survived are still painfully fresh.

the a feeling you'll see it a bill isn't worth nazi soldiers and it was in the winter i did it the moment that the mom and i were in the village at that moment the nazi soldiers started drinking and beat trying to the point that they began to pull the children from the 2nd floor and did to my heel the casket and shoot at them like targets. that it. would particularly if we jumped from the windows into the snow drift and flat to get a shot at us but the local saved us. this is the earliest we were sitting on the tram . that when a nazi soldier took a step forward someone shot him in the back. that the transmission is surrounded they pushed us out and paced us against a wall. a boy was said to me. i ran to the street to the last couple there was a woman with a child. she took my hand i didn't know she was german and that's typical stop the

soldier she told him that i was her child and he had a scar and i did mine on purpose steel. that we were only wearing like dresses that they attached us to a convoy of prisoners it was a very moving without food and water with 6 to 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 supported on the left with the sick lame and old. mom was just thrown to the right breast the but that at that and i could ignore it she shouted you girls hold each other's hands all your life never part these were her last her. for.

rick it was it just got destroyed by once he was such an fraud street with my sister he found just a wall and we wrote on the wall. we are home yes. i am. well when the red army entered found about 7000 mostly ill and dying prisoners according to various estimates between 230 and 350 save us soldiers lost their lives in combat while liberating the camp that day into the sights industrial scale mass murder bringing hope the lessons of the tragedy will never be forgotten one

course of has gained exclusive access to the central archives of russia's federal security service shedding new light on atrocities committed in the camp. 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 bloody mary mccarthy points out the nazis did everything to conceal the extent of their atrocities as the muscle has been places of mass

destruction were carefully hidden trees were planted photos were seized taking footage of mass executions was prohibited 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 into a geisha and files show that his research included female serialisation experiments on children and prisoners contaminated with infectious diseases that 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. 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 auschwitz supervisors like him eager for money and an increase in daily rations would execute fellow prisoners and claim they tried to escape their reward $2.00 more experts say and some extra food. i didn't report anyone 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. these 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 ramana cos we have already moscow. teamed up with digital artist diana simone off a 9 schoolchildren to create an animated tribute to the victims of auschwitz and to come to learn some more here's a preview of that 3 d. project 'd.

and other headlines the u.s. state of ominous warning of a continued threat from oil cools a rainin backed militias in iraq soft reports of 3 rockets hitting the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad's green zone with one landing on the embassy restaurant 3 of us east off are reportedly injured it's not yet known though if the stauffer u.s. citizens or not according to local media the helicopter has evacuated embassy employees iraqi prime minister mahdi condemned the attack and pledged to bring the perpetrators to justice so far no group has claimed responsibility the green zone his home to keep government buildings and diplomatic missions this latest incident comes at a time of mass unrest in baghdad thousands are taking to the streets in recent days

calling for u.s. troops to quit the country. well let's bring in live now to me professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university thanks for joining us jamal good to have you on the program today washington's made it clear who they're blaming iran obviously despite no claim of responsibility no prob i mean given the state of iraq given their all of course many militias many terrorist groups operating isn't that premature to assign blame before a proper investigation. well i believe. americans jump to conclusion but the good beer i've been doing. was the united states troops in iraq have targeted the. leadership and this same time. members. assassinating. us and surely man and i. so.

will. order that's called on the united states. and at the same time when we're all. americans i believe that this all in this context. you know onion or let's say you know in our cube is distance and say american to you know. the it would all of us troops from iraq and they would step up. american the next few weeks i mean this could well be in a way the militia are equally may not be but i mean just going back a bit as you mentioned the killing of general sort of mani the other airstrikes the justification from the white house the pentagon was that it's meant to make america and american life safe given what's happened since then but the tensions we've seen

the strikes has that a minute she ved. well this is ironical because. by the united states where waged on the pretext of saving american lives. i believe that to save american lives the best way. is to withdraw from iraq from elsewhere in the region because the americans spent between this region in order to promote their own geo political agenda against the rise of your nation post on this is what led not only to. victims among. people among the gun. people syrian people but. to american casualties whether military or the simply and so it's a bit ironic that. americans. claiming that they are trying to save

american lives i believe this will lead to more bloodshed and the best way is to unite. the region. to. this region to its own. small came professor of history and international relations at lebanese investing thanks for joining us a great to get your insight today. well still to come u.s. property owners will have to shell the former prisoners on the new ordinance small that story after the what. good politicians do. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. actually going to be

close it's like the before. him people are. interested always in the water. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic probably the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

the program u.s. pressure appears to be dividing long allies washington backed interim government has cut diplomatic ties with cuba which is blaming the white house thoughts as the u.s. blames russian trolls for damaging stability in latin america and explains. the u.s. is ringing the russian alarm bells once again this time for latin america state department analysts from the russian link twitter accounts want to sow confusion in south american nations that oppose the moscow backed government in venezuela in bolivia immediately after president evo morales resigned on november the 10th the number of tweets associated with those type of accounts spiked to more than 1000 a day up from fewer than 5 now amid their unproven claims about a russian descent from asian operation they seem to have overlooked the work of a certain louis sarek who calls himself a cyber rambo it turns out i'm a cyber rambo now the anti morale us activist was tweeting out as many as $69.00

posts in a single 2nd in his one accounting tweeted out more than $13000.00 messages claiming that the ouster of evo morales was not a coup well the actual nature of events tells a different story than what saurez was tweeting let's review. i. think this is an. hour from now they tried together here in the to recover political power again and when they can't win they're like since they invent that it was fraud now we're realize that it was not fraud but the coup d'etat. the.

do you this he doesn't know why my resigning so that my who does not continue to post acute my socialist drug this it's my duty as an indigenous president and the president of old believe the seeds of peace. but saurez voice was amplified throughout the internet claiming that the ouster of an elected leader by the military was somehow a triumph for democracy and did sorry as go into hiding not at all soros actually boasted about his efforts to sway social media opinion and how they were so effective with an algorithm that was just 25 lines of code. how is this to bolivian

with one click produces more trees than all the leftists efforts to support a dictator it's important to note that saurez isn't just a person who's highly interested in bolivian politics oblivion himself he's also a veteran of the us military now he denies that he's currently on active duty or in any way connected with cyber command or intelligence agencies and we'll just have to take his word for it i see the hand of the u.s. in this age see the hand of the cia in this and the national endowment for democracy this is an overwhelming amount of social media activity in support of the coup and this was being done by a u.s. military veteran society really was a cool ordinated effort to overthrow the democratically elected government of a well morales we have to look at social media as you know just another public platform and in this case it has been and will be used to support today to

us in countries like bolivia they're going to continue to use both the mainstream press and social media to carry out these types of regime change efforts. but twitter has strict policies against this kind of manipulation when we detect suspicious levels of activity accounts maybe looks and prone to provide additional information but somehow one guy could have just spammed evo morales out of office so with all this talk of russian bots and kremlin conspiracies perhaps people should look for these cyber manipulators who operate a little closer to washington d.c. they look mop and artsy new york. a californian cities by owning property owners from conducting criminal background checks on potential tenants oakland city council's move designed to tackle homelessness crisis is set for a final reading next month of the target is to help former criminals reintegrate into society and not end up on the streets. 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 and one of the ordinance landlords can be fined up to a $1000.00 for breaking the rule until now ground checks will routine make you almost impossible for people with criminal records to rent accommodation the move is aimed at getting people off the streets and helping former inmates out of jail oakland has one of the highest homelessness rights in the whole of california which is itself of course the states with the most homeless people the number of homeless in oakland a surge 47 percent has just over the past 3 years alone it's overtaken nearby san francisco and book as well and there are more than 4000 people without a roof over their head that roughly one percent of the population of that number roughly one in 5 don't have access to even temporary shelter we discussed the issue with t.v. and radio host catherine turk and prison legal news that it's paul right. i think

this is very irresponsible on behalf of the government behalf of city officials there's a rate of re-offend ers 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 are there are levels of relief of re-offense at all so any public safety issue is one thing 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 safety 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 and although not here right now you know if there's a reason that we need to keep these histories hidden there is probably something to hide 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 landlords 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 they 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 is an example so so so we're talking about tens of thousands of people were convicted of possessing marijuana are you going to use that as the basis to exclude people from housing today when that same activity is legal 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 at the. news just coming in of a passenger plane carrying 83 people crushing foreign crushing in afghanistan's remote mountainous guns you province that's according to local media so i think officials of the acting chief executive of. lines has reportedly the incident though will get you more updates as soon as we know some more information on the

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i'm after a town where we're going underground on all of course memorial day marking 75 years since stalin's red army liberated the nazi death camp of auschwitz where over a 1000000 people perished and it was genocide against jews communists and the. community coming up in the show a supremum war crime under the u.n. charter the former director of britain's special forces questions british government and the media narratives used to justify 2800 british bombing of syria after revelations from wiki leaks and a top o.p.c. w inspector giving evidence to the un and is the u.s.s.r. as role in the defeat of the nazis being whitewashed from nato nation culture we investigate the reframing of history with columbia university.