the u.s. military confirms that one of its surveillance planes has crashed in afghanistan in territory controlled by taliban militants. exactly 75 years since one of the darkest chapters of humanity came to an end with the liberation by soffit 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. france found a type of crowd control grenade that's injured numerous protesters the critics say it's just a political ploy designed to win votes in the upcoming municipal elections.

a warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me the karen and our top story the u.s. military forces in afghanistan have confirmed that one of their surveillance planes one has crashed in central afghanistan and that they currently don't suspect it was shot down a u.s. bombardier 11 crash today in gaza new province afghanistan while the cause of crash is under investigation there are no indications the crash was caused by enemy fire . artie's senior correspondent mark gasnier joins me now studio now with more details and more of what else is the u.s. said about this so far well traditionally this is this is standard practice the keep quiet and potential casualties and causes for a 24 hour period after anything any event had occurred but many hours after the initial reports emerged they have finally confirmed that indeed one of the aircraft

a surveillance aircraft has crashed in afghanistan after the taliban came out and said the same thing that the united states had lost many they claimed. servicemen military personnel who the taliban is known to sort of inflates the to sticks to exaggerate the truth nevertheless the e 11 a one of 4 there called why fly in the sky the purpose is to provide communications links between various american units on the ground there always in the air these aircraft providing 24 hour 24 hour communications and support surveillance as well this aircraft crashed in in a province that is largely controlled by the taliban and the site where it crashed up in the hills in the mountains is controlled by the taliban the afghan military mobilised they tried to get to the slow cation but due to security concerns they

had to stand down and pull back nevertheless we knew that there are red cross and red crescent personnel at the site but because of the lack of signal the network coverage communication for now is is very difficult as you said there's an investigation ongoing it was quite interesting about this is the information about what's actually happened it's been really slow to emerge can you give us a recap of how this crash has been reported well it wasn't just slew it was contradictory as well because initially the report said that there had been a passenger jet a commercial airline the belonging to the area and afghan air. lines that had crashed with more than $100.00 people on board a little later the afghan government the airlines itself came out and said that this is this is fake this fake news none of our jets had crashed the taliban came out and said that it was in fact an american an american spy or. you know eventually that was that was proven to be the case later we learned that they

couldn't get to the site because because the taliban was in control on the ground and indeed the 1st video of the emerged of the wreckage apparent wreckage of the aircraft we haven't been able to confirm the video but apparently this video was shot by a journalist affiliated with the taliban as you think this incident will have any wider significance for the war ravaged country and in particular america's mission there well the argument is that there is no mission that you know of the afghan war papers the painted a very confused picture. of the afghan war inside the administration the u.s. government there's there's there's no clear concise objective what the united states is trying to achieve in afghanistan they're dropping more bombs last year the job more bombs than in almost any given year in the last decade and the consensus is that there is no bombing your way to peace or any peaceful resolution will have to be through negotiation that the afghan war is alternately unwinnable

by conventional means. therefore you do you know what is what is the mission this is this is just another 5 soldiers apparently 5 that have been killed in a war that is largely senseless that is bereft of purpose because so see that. is more a tragedy to be honest with you than than war casualties or you know collateral damage. yes thanks coming in. but we also discuss the possible implications of the plane crash with political analyst mushtaq rahim and political commentator. the taliban did not blame the shutdown of the blame almost with after 5 hours of the crash. initially even some reports surfaced that the taliban even didn't know about this they have issued a statement in 3 languages in. have said their good has trashed rather than they have other than being targeted by the taliban if this is actually not an accidental

crash if this was a downing by the taliban definitely there will be consequences and i mean military consequences given the fact that the u.s. has a huge foothold in afghanistan and they would not accept such kind of an escalation to happen especially at this point in time after the recent escalation in the beginning of the event i actually myself tweeted about the taliban showing a statement announcing that they down the lane 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 none of them downing the plane so 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 the 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 nicol 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. it's exactly 75 years ago that the red army liberated auschwitz 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. there were actually it's 3 death camps up aside one started its system of murder and torture back in may 940 prisoners life began at the registration building where he'll she received personal numbers and from then on became referred to by that number then there was an assignment to the barracks which would be home as well as

block 11 a prison inside the prison used for torture the camp had a gas chamber crime a toria an execution wall. that's the death of war let's now the place where memorial reads the placed on monday camp survivors visited the site to commemorate the victims it's estimated nearly $200.00 former players this from around the world will also take part in the memorial service people of their visit to the camp. many of those who passed through the camps infamous gate with its marking 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 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 inmates had their heads shaved on a rifle 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 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 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'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 poland. 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 which was the only come to tattoo tattoo prisoners the numbers on the arms now more than $400000.00 serial numbers were created that does not include those never stands but sent directs to the gas chambers uniforms had badges primarily triangles to identify why the prison there was that ranging from their political views criminal pasts or homosexuality jews had a double triangle resembling the star of david 75 years on the memories of those who survived all still painfully fresh.

at the bull is a boy nazi soldiers and 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 beats trying to the point that they began to pull the children from the 2nd floor and did see my heel with us and shoot at them like targets. it's. pretty good if we jumped from the windows into the snow drift and flat side if they shot at us at the local saved us. this is their left over we were sitting on the tram. and that when a nazi soldier took a step forward someone shot him in the back field moment that the transmedia 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 of the over

there was a woman with a child. she took my hand i didn't know she was jarman is that tested it to stop the soldier she told him that i was her child and he had a scar and i did mine on purpose steal. it that was 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 sick and lame people that where. when some people fall they shot them immediately the sleep that when we could not walk we had to carry each other. then we were supported on the left to the sick lame and old. man was just thrown to the right breast the but that at that and i could ignore it sheltered you girls hold each other's hands all your life never part these were the last hurdle.

for. the civic it was it just got destroyed by once he was such an fraud street with my sister he found just a war and we wrote on the wall. we are home this. when the red army entered our schwitters 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 and the sights industrial

scale mass murder bringing hope the lessons of that appalling tragedy will never be forgotten. lotty teamed up with a digital artist in sydney on of and 9 schoolchildren to create another major tribute to the victims of our shoots you can read to r.t. dot com to learn more about that here's a preview of the 3 d. virtual reality projects.

75 years after 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 hike a month. that is an absolute nightmare of the people of the jews for a longer through its home here in germany and the terrible disgrace 75 years after the liberation of auschwitz the minister also stated there had been at least $400.00 cases of attacks on jewish people in berlin alone in the last 6 months including a shoestring near a synagogue in october that killed 2 people as german army officials said they had investigation more than 500 cases of far right extremism and fight the army notably there were 5 times as many incidents involving the german special forces or k. s. k. think of pad to the rest of the army this comes as a bare bronze with nazi era german reich symbols has been on sale in

a german store police have since lotion investigation the store latest stated it had discontinued is punish it with the brand nazi symbols are banned in germany except when used in the context of research and teaching. dollars to its kind from the berlin based jewish institute for democracy and against the semitism believes the government should use knows to fight neo nazis in germany. the newspapers are only bringing bad thing and they're not bringing the good things we have a good majority is not and has a mythic at all you know but the majority has to get up to stand up to do something today to show courage then i would feel better because you know these few only a few entries in this and he's missed we do 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 at the moment i have no idea what will be

really ask my government be against this racist and be against this nationalist do something we have laws use them. france's interior minister has announced the withdrawal from police forces of the notoriously f. 4 grenade which is being responsible for seriously injuring numerous protesters. zippy said this decision because they don't have any specific color or description and what happened months ago was the police were forced to use them to remove the threats and protesters voluntarily pick them up and was seriously injured 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 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 boot to go announcement issued weeks ahead of municipal elections 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 was 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. in. the national assembly and 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 do. i 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 was an explosive it wasn't legal to show that it can take up to 26 where i was t.n.t. explosives it's not just the protesters have been injured by these carnate earth 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 as for grenades which are totally from my point of view weapons and of l.b.j. 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 a journalist sam passes by. so it's out with the old but as i mentioned the police are 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 more to with that should be the key. 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 son's news agencies this time targeting a professor at the university of to run he was informed his actions had broken guidelines however the professor himself can't recall anything he did worthy of

about. i can't think of anything that i have published that would be. an acceptable the images the state. 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 make them look at twitter and see what i've written is doing is dangerous. the move does follow something of a recent trend the independent radio news agency far that says its international website has been taken down after apparently falling foul of u.s. sanctions fast it said it had received an e-mail from its server company which said it was blocked on u.s. orders also earlier this month press t.v. the english language t.v. network based in iran was removed from you tube stuff out the iranian funded channel so their page was closed without warning or explanation and comes as

companies are under pressure to comply with u.s. sanctions did later restore the page slide mohammad marandi again says it's far from the 1st time he's faced such moves on social media. well they were suspended on a number of occasions for photos including a photo of myself during the iran iraq war it was a minister spend it 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 that what i put on my twitter account but the same on facebook and but the intolerance is on the rise in

the united states and then in the west towards any alternative use. a british intelligence expert has cast doubt on the infamous still dossier on alleged trumped russia collusion nigel west has examined it and also knows its author claims it's likely the material was fabricated but all ca is a privately commissioned intelligence report that was written by a former m i 6 agent christopher steele then 2060 his company was hired to look into allegations of coalition 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 when we discussed the dossier with nigel west himself the intelligence expert who claims it could all be fake. i was commissioned by a lawyer in washington d.c. . to examine the original so-called steel dossier and to conduct a forensic examination and then coming to a conclusion in the background to this incidentally is the i specialize in this

particular field intelligence officers and others who fabricated material you have to understand but the management of sort. losses if you're a case officer and you manage let's say 3 or 4 sources civil tenuously it's very rare that you mix up the tiriel provided by those individual sources so when i looked at the steel dossier the would the train set of $111.00 sources referred to the major ones were referred to just simply as a b. c. d. e. f. and g. and a and death for example will corroborated each other and by looking at the material one thing seems very strange either he had mixed up his soul says or one particular individual who appeared to be a middle ranking member of management in the ritz carlton hotel and also 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 operation is being conducted by russian emigre is on the east coast of the united states thanks for joining us here on out the international web act the top of the hour the latest headlines. leonella sorts of things wrong. but all roads just don't call. me i'll get to say proud just because educated and dangerous equals the trade. winds are going to find themselves worlds apart we just of the common ground. up. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of

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