a top u.s. air force general confirms that an american military plane has crashed in afghanistan in territory controlled by a terrorist group the taliban. exactly 75 years as one of the darkest chapters of humanity came to an end with the liberation by stopping its forces of the auschwitz concentration camp the 27th of january is now international holocaust remembrance day for the millions of jews killed during the 2nd world war. transponder type of crowd control grenades this injured numerous protesters the critics say it's just a political ploy designed to win votes the upcoming winner support election.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me becky airing our top story this hour the u.s. air forces chief of staff has confirmed that an american surveillance aircraft has crashed in central afghanistan although he didn't confirm whether the plane was shot down the status of the crew is so far unclear r.t. senior correspondent margo's you have joined me in the studio now for more with more details or more at the pentagon remained silent for a while what is saying now well it is just. yes indeed it was last week it was going to start but it made the point that it did move the stats because the aircraft it's legit you landed even crashed it very. very difficult to get would be sold largely by by the taliban this is after many hours of them saying nothing.

a lot of computer miscommunication i know but it was nevertheless now down to me that this happened the dead to go usually talks about casualties. around 22 hours of the state so that sure there's always that because this is normal the taliban has come out and said that they were the 1st to come out and said that they had been down there from leaving responsibility and saying that the united states is doing a lost lot of military personnel in the crash a little beast do emerge thank you from the site that we haven't been able to verify with but the you know it's real and information about what's actually happened it's been slow to him as he gives a recap of how this crash has been reported initially early in the morning there was there were reports that passenger jet commercial airliner belonging to the afghan i react airlines crash in afghanistan

with more than $100.00 people on board a little later the afghan government the airline itself came out and said nothing nothing crashed that goes. across the paradigm it came out and said that in fact it was an american american military jet a surveillance aircraft 11 bombardier i had was in town some sound difficulties so martin to leave it that's the nub of thank you for bringing us those details we're going to come back to you later in the program thank you. ok let's go live to political commentator ma was menow and more well thanks for joining us on the program and so now the u.s. her air force has confirmed the downed plane was one of its own one like action would you expect in the u.s. now. i would agree with what i just said that we are usually waiting on the u.s. to respond after such incidents to up to 24 hours from 12 to 24 hours before they give out an official response 1st of all official confirmation and then an official

reply as to what will happen next and i think this is the case now especially that we are waiting on breaking news coming from the white house on a totally different matter from both netanyahu and trump so i think now would not be the perfect timing for the white house to be talking intensively and extensively about this matter but i think that if it is proven the taliban downed actually the plane because at the beginning of the event i actually myself tweeted about. issuing a statement announcing that they downed the plane because i was translating from arabic media but then an hour later it was unconfirmed reports that said taliban actually announced the downing of the plane but not them downing the plane we are having conflicting reports coming from afghanistan but at the same time we have silence from the american side 1st of all when they were asked about whether these reports were right or not they decided not to comment and now they're saying that yes there was a u.s. surveillance aircraft that was downed or that downed due to technical difficulties

they didn't even give a right or an exact expression and a description of what happened but i believe it of action the taliban was behind the downing we will see some sort of an escalation in afghanistan especially after the talks that were supposed to happen between the u.s. and taliban person trump himself several on several occasions at 1st announced that they are dialogue going on and peace talks with taliban then he said he stopped them all and then he said again that he's open up for dialogue again so it's an on and off relationship with the u.s. but if this actually happens we're going to see some shifting in u.s. foreign policy towards of coniston and that is not as to what's. not a school but rather may be a more aggressive behavior but how about the statement does not directly claim that they doubt the plane themselves could anyone else they're responsible. i don't think anyone else would be responsible we're talking about the. province which is

actually at the full told of the hindu kush mountains it's a very cold the area it's winter right now there it's very bad weather to go on flights to begin with but i don't think that anyone else except taliban actually takes control of the guys in the province in that area they are highly. they are highly found within this area the actually found the plane before the of gun the police found themselves so i don't think that's going to be anyone else if someone down did other than taliban but there could be into technical difficulties that actually ended up with the aircraft being falling or having an accident and actually the history of that area shows that it's not the 1st time that aircraft has an accident fools and casualties and losses of loss of life happens in that area in specific because as i said it's such a time of the year it's very cold and the weather is bad so it's not the 1st time that we've seen also commercial airplanes that fell before and had no accidents

before in that area but it's actually in the silence of the u.s. secretary of state in the us the white house or any official. spokespeople that come out from the. speak about this their silence actually gives us more reason to think that it's actually downed but again it's. more invading actual sorry to interrupt the taliban's not known to have weapons capable of shooting down planes so if they do if it was that. indeed doubt this plane would that be a game changer in the region. definitely the 1st question would be in my mind why now not why it. happened because as you said they do have weapons that capable of downing a plane specially such service surveillance airplanes have to go really on high altitudes but the question is why now if it is a kind of escalation by the taliban what do they want by doing that and what is

their new policy that they are taking an action against the presence of the u.s. which they consider as u.s. occupation by the way in the country why now and what are they counting on that this will not actually escalate the situation in afghanistan and another question which is being have heavily asked in the arab region in the west asian region is is this if this is a downing is it actually linked to the assassination of qassam soloman because we all know that of the total cost and so money had very very good relationship with taliban so is that if they did it is that there is some sort of a link between the 2 incidents or not and if it did not happen then why is the u.s. still silent on what actually happened in law as my political commentator thank you for joining us here on r.t. . british writer and intelligence expert has cast doubt on the infamous still dossier on alleged trumped russia collusion and i don't west here's they

examined it and also knows it's all claims it's likely the material was fabricated . the writer considered steele the former m i 6 officer to be a friend someone he had met on a nato intelligence project and again at a conference on espionage in cambridge the pair had lunch together so west was frankly stunned that the forensic examination of steele's dossier and the 11 sources he cites bore none of the rigor he expected of a respected former intelligence officer instead west's report which has been passed to the sunday times concludes there is a strong possibility that all steals material has been fabricated but also here is a privately commissioned intelligence report that was written by a former m i 6 agent christopher steele in 2016 his company was hired to look into allegations of collusion between donald trump and moscow the dossier claims that the russians possess compromising material on trump obtained when he was in russia

7 years ago while we're joined live now by nigel west himself the intelligence expert has cast doubt on the steel dossier it's great to have you with us thank you for joining us on r.t. how did you end up looking into the reliability of the steel dossier. i was commissioned by a lawyer in washington d.c. to see to examine the original circle steel dossier and to conduct a forensic examination of the content which means going through it line by line looking at the attributions working out the value of each individual source and then coming to a conclusion in the background to this incidentally is the nice specialize in this particular field and my i've written 2 books about intelligence officers and others who fabricated material or published books that have made claims about con and s.

and operations that they have actually participated in and you got to know christopher thale to you how did you end up making his acquaintance. are quite separate clay it had nothing to do with the steel dossier before the studio was published i had known chris for some time i originally met him at a nature intelligence agents conference at r f molesworth and got to know him and i've always had the highest respect for him i know his work and i and knew what he's postings have been within the secret service before he left so why was it about this dossier that made you think of being without it. well 1st of all you have to understand about the management of sort orses if you're a case officer and you manage let's say 3 or 4 sources similar tenuously. it's very rare that you mix up. the tiriel provided by those individual sources

so when i looked at they still dossier there were between sets of them and 11 sources referred to the major ones were referred to just simply as a b. c. d. e. f. and g. and a and f. for example who corroborated each other and by looking at the material $11.00 thing seemed very strange either he had mixed up his sources or one particular individual who appeared to be a middle ranking member of management in the ritz carlton hotel and oscar a few months later was described as an expert on cyber warfare and cyber espionage and then a couple months later was also expressing a knowledge of money laundering operations being conducted by. russian emigre it

is on the east coast of the united states supported by diplomats space to the russian consulate in florida well. first of all it's inherently improbable that a middle ranking person in the management of a hotel in moscow would have that kind of knowledge of cyber warfare. and then also to be able to have a knowledge of money laundering operations being conducted in a state where there is no russian consulate so on the face of it it looked inherently improbable that this single all source was as proclaimed. you were able to spot these irregularities quite aither neighbor the dossiers on the left persuaded so many people why do you think that is. i can't answer that i suppose that there is an element of wishful thinking and king

i'm i'm quite surprised by the media reporting when when you if you just take for example this isn't just my opinion this was a document that i wrote an analysis in 2007 we in 2017 we now know based on the f.b.i. inspector general's report published in december last year that i was i was right but i was only half way right in the sense that the. habitation had been much greater than i had suspected and the f.b.i. was able to identify the primary the so-called primaries sub source a russian emigre real estate broker in the united states and he in effect distance and in self from the sourcing of the information and the really salacious material

and relating to president trauma the control he claimed he received in a 10 to 15 minute telephone call from somebody who he didn't know an anonymous source and run him and gratuitously volunteered this information. so none of this kind of material should appear. unless it's been validated and that is the basis of intelligence reporting by tentatively that there is some kind of value assessment attached to each individual source and that clearly was not apparent in the document the night salmon to do 1070. 1 thing you also notice there's still may have had financial incentives could you elaborate on that for us . well i was very struck when you make a turn on line of the these individual documents i had guessed in 2017 that the going. price for this kind of reporting

particularly where there is is due diligence reporting on on companies which is the kind of day to day routine work that all base was undertaking and companies of that kind it's probably 12 to $15000.00 a report and they start off. some month and then they escalate once a fortnight and then they end up 3 a day and that sort of implies if somebody is receiving that amount of money and we now know that he was it's paid more than $180000.00 by his clients that it's pretty much a gravy train that one might be go in straight in financial circumstances to climb into. that so in your opinion was there are enough in the dossier to justify an f.b.i. inquiry. well again that's not for me but if you look in the inspector general's report it's very clear that the reporting. was 1st of all used

in support of pfizer core temp occasions where quite clearly they shouldn't have been. that the f.b.i. when they established their own doubts about chris and of the fired him. as a souls that should have been reported to the court and it wasn't and even off to doubt had emerged and even off to the principal primaries sub source had been identified and interviewed and that great problem said emerged in relation to him that again should have been reported in terms of exculpatory evidence and the normal course applications prosecuted for example or always is obliged to disclose exculpation evidence and much the same principle applies to the pfizer code and that didn't happen and you can see right the way through the 400 pages of

the inspector general's report that it's an absolute nice gazing about chris's report watching and indeed demonstrates that on one occasion when complaining to the f.b.i. about leaks to wiki news sent out that chris had been the person who'd been responsible for the leaks i realized hearing like a west intelligence expert thank you for joining us here on earth and we appreciate it. now still to come millions commemorate the liberation of the house but step down by thought he opposes 75 years ago but more on that awful short break stay with us. the world is driven by

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welcome back now it's exactly 75 years ago that the red army liberated the us which death camp in poland almost 1100000 people lost their lives at the nazi site in the most appalling tragedy of the holocaust is liberation close one of the most shameful chapters in history. you. there were actually 3 death camps at the site as which one which started started its 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 there was assignment to the barracks which would be home as well as block 11 a prison inside

a prison used for torture the campout a gas chamber crime its hoary and an execution wall. dubbed the death of wall that's now the place where memorial wreaths are placed on monday camp survivors visited the site to commemorate the victim's testimony to the nearly $200.00 former prisoners from around the world will also take part in a memorial service pays all of a visit to pick out. 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 that was the 1st the people were loaded

on the trains often and heated for a 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 head 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 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 2 years under the. jack 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 soviet generals to investigate what had been going on between. them for 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 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 starving patients from the besieged city of leningrad i'm a 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 r

t from auschwitz birkenau pod. when the red army entered our switch 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 the camp that day ended the sleights industrial scale mass murder bringing hope the lessons of that appalling tragedy will never be forgotten. france's interior minister has announced the withdrawal from the police for the police forces of the notorious for grenade which is be responsible for seriously injuring numerous protesters. j.p. said this decision because they don't have any specific color or description and what happened months ago was the police also used them to remove the threats and protests voluntarily pick them up and was seriously injured and that's why i think we must remove the glee from all well that announcement means it will be the

immediate and the glee f 4 which has been massively controversial here in france 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 few months here in france and there's also the announcement that while they may be getting rid of back believe f. 4 they've already decided what the new replacement for that will be so why all the glee f 4 was so controversial.

the national was when people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guys worked to try to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction. i don't want to kiss anyone but my mother says she had been targeted and we want to know the truth and did her justice. wasn't able to show that it. an explosive it wasn't label to show that it contains up to 26 grams of t.n.t. explosives it's not just the protesters who've been injured by these carnate as if exploded they've also maimed journalists why is it that when he the police were

panicking and 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 f. or 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 of already decided 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 the g the giddy. 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 that you are totally that different you can have your say

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