it was. conflicting reports over a plane crash in taliban territory in afghanistan as the militant group claims the aircraft belong to the us air force. and its exactly 75 years as one of the darkest chapters of humanity came to an end with deliberation by slavia forces of the auschwitz concentration camp 27th of january is now international holocaust remembrance day for the millions of jews killed during the 2nd world war. france bound the type of crowd control grenades that's in just numerous protesters though critics say it's just a political ploy designed to win votes in upcoming readers the election.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me karen now we start with conflicting reports that are emerging about a plane that's crashed in afghanistan's girls the province which is the taliban controlled territory the militant group claims it was an american aircraft local done this sultan phasey has more details on this. we have been still hearing conflicting reports from the ground and from the afghan officials here in the capital the 1st reporting was based on a schedule of domestic flights we 1st heard that it was a plane class a commercial plane crash however both alternatives from the. airline and ask in civil aviation deny these reports of this plane crash took place in gaza knew were partly is under the control of the taliban especially the site of the incident so

it's hard to confirm whether it was a military plane or a passenger plane. let's now go live with a little analyst chris bambery at last time on the program with us chris why has the u.s. still i can't comment on the plane crash and what can we read into that if anything . well 1st of all what's come in social media is the markings on the plane do seem to indicate that it was a u.s. military plane and if that's the case there will be deep concern in the united states about the fact that if the taliban have indeed brought this plane don't because what we have to understand about grow warfare in the 21st century is that much of this is about surveillance but it's also about war feel trying to jam exactly this sort of thing brain down shooting down an aircraft or using a roadside device to explode it so therefore the be very deep concern in washington if it is the case the taliban have brought down this plane and that's going to potentially affect all of american operations in afghanistan which of we are

heavily dependent on moving people are owned by helicopter by pull in and saw and saw if it is the case that the taliban have brought this plane don't this is a significant success for the taliban and a danger for the americans and i think they'll be evaluating what is going on here very carefully before they come out and mitt if that is what's happened what was interesting is the. the bank statement does not directly claim they down the plane so if they didn't do it who else could be responsible. well there are various other groups operating in the field in afghanistan as we know including i says affiliated groups however you'd have to i think have a fair degree of sophistication to have not just the weaponry but the skill to get rhondda defenses which the americans would have a row not plain preventing a missile coming at it or some other device coming coming at it jamming technique saw it's hard to see you know that who else would have the technological capability

of being able to do that in this situation beyond the taliban but we shall see we yet to know if it has been brought down or a simple pirate arrow but it is as i say on social media it is clear that it is a us military markings of the us military plane. and the taliban's are not known to have weapons capable of shooting down planes so if they do is that a game changer in the region would you say well this is a charge says is not necessary having a weapon that could shoot down planes it is the the jamming devices which will be interfering with any missile coming towards it was the americans who have had on this plane in abundance out of thought if and it's a big if we don't know yet but if the taliban have found a way road that this is serious implications for the united united states you know as i said they're dependent on moving people by the can't do it by road in large areas of afghanistan pendent and that and this is

a serious blow to them and they will be desperately trying to find it what's happened here and then it is the case the plane has been brought down by the missile device or whatever they'll be working on that to find out how that happened and how they can rebuild their defenses to prevent any repetition of that and if they could be political consequences resulting from the crash. i think there are about as wide a political consequences in the sense that you know we're no miss 2 decades own from the american occupation of afghanistan and the taliban have not been defeated and in fact if anything they're somewhat so much somewhat stronger there is no stability in afghanistan there is no sign as in iraq of the americans ever leaving afghanistan so this is a failure of american for a needle in this case foreign policy in afghanistan that is desperately trying to broker a political solution through these talks in dubai with the taliban brought about fences the taliban has says that history is on their side and though not rushing

towards making that deal they can wait perhaps the americans can't because after all donald trump was elected on a promise of nor more of the of these are foreign adventures on a critical stance towards what the previous bush and obama administrations have done so therefore he is under some pressure if the death toll starts to rack up in iraq or afghanistan and indeed if he's a senior officers which it seems to be the case again senior officers are being killed in this in this point so there will be tensions there yes political analyst chris bambery thank you for coming on the show. i think that he 75 years ago the very red army liberated the auschwitz death camp in poland and most 1100000 people lost their lives at the nazi site in the most appalling tragedy of the holocaust is liberation a close one of the most shameful chapters in history.

when. there were actually 3 death camps at the site it's one started a system of murder and torture back in may 940 a 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 that there was assignments to the barracks which would be home as well as block 11 the prison that a prison inside the prison used for torture they can't have a gas chamber crematorium an execution war. dubbed the death of all it's now the place where memorial wreaths are placed on monday camp survivors visit the site to commemorate the victims estimated nearly $200.00 former prisoners from around the world will also take part in a memorial service paid to all of a visiting the count. many of those who passed through the camps infamous gate with its mocking are by far your 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 through the roof through the 1st the people were loaded on to 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 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 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 his technology how up today he 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 jacques. boots of 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 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 mounir and starving patients from the besieged city of leningrad i might help 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 over of tea from auschwitz birkenau. the personal numbers of holocaust prisoners were usually sewn 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 on the arms more than $400000.00 serial numbers were created it does not include those never stamps but that direct the gas chambers uniforms had badges primarily triangles to identify why the prisoner was there ranging from their political views

criminal pasts or homosexuality jews had a double triangle resembling the star of david and 5 years on the memories of those who survived are still painfully fresh. at the bull is a boy nazi soldiers and it was in the winter i did at the moment that the mom and i were in the village at that moment the nazi soldiers started drinking and beats trying to the point that they began to pull the children from the 2nd floor and it did seem either kill the casket and shoot them like targets. still it's. pretty good if we jumped from the windows into the snow drift and flat roofs and if they shot at us the locals saved us. this is their lived over we were sitting on

the trial. and that when a nazi soldier took a step forward someone shot him in the back of spilled milk that the transmission is surrounded they pushed us out and placed us against a wall. for the much a boy was for tonight. 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 is that that's typical stop the song she told him that i was her child and he had a scar and i did mine on purpose steal. the shit out of that stuff we were only wearing like dresses that say touched us to a convoy of prisoners it was a very moving without food and water with 6 to name people but where yes when some people fall they shot them immediately as they sleep that when we could not wash we had to carry each other that builds until then we were supported on the left with

the sick and old and. mom was just thrown to the right breast to but that does and i could ignore it she shouted you girls hold each other's hands all your life never part these were the last her. for. this and rick it was just got us lawyer fight once he was such in front of st my sister he found just a war and we wrote on the war. we are home yes. i am.

when the right army entered auschwitz it found about 7000 mostly ill and dying prisoners according to various estimates between 230 and 350 soviet soldiers lost their lives in combat while liberating become that day ended the science industrial scale mass murder bringing hope the lessons of that appalling tragedy will never be forgotten. aussie teamed up with digital artists dennis simeonoff and 9 schoolchildren to create an animated tribute to the victims of auschwitz head to r.t. dot com to learn more here's a preview of the 3 d. virtual reality project were.

'd 'd 75 years off to the atrocities of auschwitz and it today more than half of all jewish people living in germany have considered leaving the country because of rising anti semitism that's according to the german foreign minister hiker moss. it is an absolute nightmare of the people of the jews for a longer fueled home here in germany and the terrible disgrace 75 years after the liberation of auschwitz the minister also stated there have been at least $400.00 cases of attacks on jewish people in berlin alone in the last 6 months including a shooting near a synagogue in october that killed 2 people that is german army officials said they

had investigated more than 500 cases of far right extremism inside the army notably there were 5 times as many incidents involving the german special forces or k s k and compared to the rest of the army this comes as a beer brand with nazi era german reich symbols has been on sale in a german store police have since launched an investigation so later stated it had this continued its partnership with the brand nazi symbols are banned in germany except when used in the context of art research and teaching law or so as kind from the berlin based jewish institute for democracy and against anti semitism believes the government should use laws to find neo nazi ism in germany. the newspapers are only breaking bad thing and then to bring the good things we have a good majority is not and has admitted all you know but the majority has to get up to stand up to do something to to show courage then i would feel better because you

know these few very that's only a few and has missed and has missed we do we have here but they are doing harm to the country they are doing to jewish life here and they are really scaring not only jewish people and that's horrifying moment i have no idea what will be are really asking my government be against this racist and be against this national let's do something we have laws use them to. france's bond it's riot police from using a military style for native protests though some see it as a cynical political ploy to explain why after the break. you you. you.

you you you you. you. you. you me. join me every thursday on the all excitement show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back falls as interior minister has announced that withdrawal from police forces of the notorious a 4 grenade which has been responsible for seriously injuring numerous protesters. he said this decision because they don't have any specific color or description of what happened months ago with the police to use them to remove the threads. pick them up and was seriously injured and that's why i think we must remove the glee well that announcement means it will be the immediate and the glee f. 4 which has been massively controversial here in frocks over the last few years particularly for its use in the yellow vest protests and that's because of the sheer number of people who remained by that particular going made when it exploded

now that announcement has been largely welcomed people saying it's good you're not going to be using this particular grenade any longer but there are suspicions that this is a bit of a political stunt it is just the political announcement issued weeks ahead of actions but it might provoke an internal control of the city this comes just ahead of these really important district a mayor elections that are coming up in the next 3 months he rants and there's also the announcement that while they may be getting rid of bakaly f. 4 they've already decided what the new replacement for that will be so why all the glee f 4 was so controversial. in. the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's work tried to push it away with his

hands as a reflex reaction. i don't want to kiss anyone but my mother said she had been targeted and we want to know the truth and did her justice. wasn't able to show that it was. an explosive it wasn't legal to show that it contained up to 26 grams of t.n.t. explosives it's not just the protesters who've been injured by these grenades as if exploded they've also maimed journalists or was it there where he the police were panicking responded with numerous tear gas grenades it also seems to me that they use grenades to disperse the crowd or try to fight against the use of glee and for grenades which are totally from my point of view weapons and of l b d rubber bullet guns i was angry at the police because i understand that they have

to defend themselves in situations of revolt but to use such powerful and uncontrollable weapons after all they can hit journalists and passers by so it's out with the old but as i mentioned the police are already decided or what the replacement will be and that is called the g m l 2 now that's controversial it says because while the ministry has previously said that it's not equivalent to bridging the guilty. it will still pose a risk in terms of damage to hearing so if it explodes it could damage your eardrums and according to some sources it could cause skin muscle and bone lesions so it doesn't sound like the 2 are totally that different. facebook and instagram are continuing to block pro iranian accounts and news agencies this time targeting a professor at the university have to run he was informed his actions had broken guidelines however the professor himself conver call anything he did worthy of

a ban. i can't think of anything that i have published that would be. unacceptable the images the statements the. links that i put on no there is no everything everything is on twitter actually more active on twitter than i am on facebook and my twitter account is there for anyone to see if anyone who wants to see what i've read they can look at twitter and see if what i've written is dangerous or not. the move does follow something of a recent trend the independent to reigne news agency far as it sees its international website has been taken down after apparently falling foul of u.s. sanctions foster said it had received an e-mail from its serve a company which said it was blocked on the u.s. orders also earlier this month press t.v. the english language t.v. network based in iran was removed from you tube stars at the iranian funded channel say that page was close without warning or explanation and comes as companies are

under pressure to comply with u.s. sanctions you tube it did later restore the page slide mohammad marandi again say it's far from the 1st time he's faced such moves on social media. while they were suspended on a number of occasions for photos including a photo of myself during the iran iraq war it was a minister spending for a couple of months and then again for a photo that i put up for one of my commanders during the war who was seriously ill because of the chemical weapons ironically the chemical weapons that the united states and the europeans gave to saddam hussein i was also again my account was suspended for that and on the carpet of other occasions for similar reasons and then just suddenly. the whole account was disabled without any explanation all together and i'm not even very active on facebook i mean what i put on my twitter account i put the same on facebook and. on the intolerance is on the rise in the

united states and then in the west towards any alternative use. the quick recap of our top story this hour now the u.s. air force chief of staff has confirmed yes the valence aircraft crashed in central afghanistan although he didn't confirm whether the plane was shot down the status of the crew is unknown so far the bomb badia jets crashed in the taliban controlled gaza a province earlier the militant group claimed an american aircraft had come down however in their statements they do not claim any responsibility a regional government spokesperson says the flight reported technical problems before crashing and bursting into flames we'll bring you more updates on this story as soon as forget them. we're back at the top of the hour with the latest about.

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