one set of rules for the rich. that's what happens when you put her into the. narrow schecter of will switch is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. the u.s. military confirms that one of its surveillance planes has crashed in afghanistan in territory controlled by taliban militants. it's 75 years since one of the darkest chapters of humanity came to an end with the liberation by say the 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. and france bans

a type of crowd control grenade that injured numerous protesters the critics say it's just a political ploy designed to win votes in upcoming misapply elections. knife from moscow where it's just past 3 in the morning you're watching r.t. international welcome to the program. we started this u.s. military forces in afghanistan have confirmed that one of the surveillance planes has crashed in one of the country's central provinces they currently do not suspect that it was shot down. by a u.s. bombardier 11 a crash today in gaza a province of ghana stan while the cause of crash is under investigation there are no indications the crash was caused by enemy fire traditionally this is this is standard practice the keep quiet and potential casualties and causes for a 20. 4 hour period after anything any event that 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 inflate statistics 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 avoiding 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 in the side where it crashed up in the hills in the mountains ease controlled by the taliban the afghan

military mobilized they tried to get to this location 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 now is is very difficult as you said there's an investigation ongoing it was quite interesting about this is then 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 airlines that crashed with more than 100 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 aircraft and 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 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 the 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 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 there's more tragedy to be honest with you than than war casualties or you know collateral damage or discuss the possible implications of the plane crash or political analyst mistake rahim and political commentator. the taliban did not blame the shutdown of the plane almost where the after 5 hours of the crash and initially even some reports surfaced that the taliban even didn't know about this they have issued a statement the language is in poor schools 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 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 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 the downed do you do nickel 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 is exactly 75 years ago that the red army liberated the auschwitz death camp in poland almost 1100000 people lost their lives of 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 3 death camps at the site auschwitz one started its system of murder and torture back in may 140 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 the assignment of the barracks which would be home

as well as block 11 the prison inside the prison used for torture the camp had a gas chamber kraemer toyah and execution war dubbed the death wall it's now the place where memorial wreaths have placed on monday camp survivors visited the site commemorate the victims and it's estimated nearly $200.00 former prisoners from around the world will also take part in the memorial service peter oliver visited 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 that was 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 head shaved all arrival 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 are you glasses pots pans those not killed immediately put to work in a par and conditions for somebody. well to fertilizing fields with the ash from bodies of those already murdered in cremated but we we thought that it was an attempt to destroy the whole race from babies to old people and to do it modern technology auschwitz amazes historians or 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 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 some of your 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 are putting 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 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 over of t. from auschwitz birkenau pollard the personal numbers of holocaust prisoners were

usually sewn on their uniforms bars as the number of executions grew it actually being hard to identify bodies after the 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 $400.00 a 1000 serial numbers were created and that does not include those never stamps but sent erect to the gas chambers uniforms had badges primarily triangles to identify why the prisoner was there ranging from their political views criminal pasts or even homosexuality jews had a double triangle resin being the star of david in 75 years on the memories of those who survived a still painfully fresh. at

the bull is a boy nazi soldiers and it was in the winter i did it the prince mama did 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 it did seem mighty kill that task it was and shoot them like targets the machine is still it's. pretty good if we jumped from the windows into a snow drift and flat you said if they shot at us but the local saved us. this is their left over we were sitting on the tram. pattern that when a nazi soldier took a step forward someone shot him in the back of the spilled moment that the transmedia 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 of the a couple there was a woman with a child. she took my hand i don't know she was german is nothing that stood at the

stop we saw each other 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 touched us to a convoy of prisoners it was a very moving without food and water with sick to name people where. when some people fall they shot them immediately this leak that when we could not wash we had to carry each other that they'll settle down he was supported on the left with the sick lady and all and the 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.

the record it just got destroyed by once who was such in front of the street that my sister found just a war and we wrote on the wall. we are home this. when the red army entered auschwitz it found about 7000 mostly ill and dying prisoners according to various estimates between 230 and 350 save its soldiers lost their lives in combat while liberating the camp that day ended the science industrial scale mass murder bring hope the lessons of that appalling tragedy will never be

forgotten. we'll be back with more news from around the world off to the short break. and when else seemed wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to shape out just days after. and in detroit because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. trump's legal team strikes back after months of being on the receiving end of the democrats and media assaults the president now presents his case but does the

public care. i actually don't think monopolies per se are the problem it's monopolistic access that monopolies have to credit or to politicians and probably both the crony financial ism crony capitalism that's the big problem last. welcome back to france's interior minister has announced the withdrawal from police forces of the notorious for grenade which has been 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 protesters voluntarily picked 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 of 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 municipal elections but it might provoke an internal control of the city this comes just ahead of these really important district in may or 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 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.

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 shown to do. an explosive it wasn't label 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 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 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 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 not equivalent to the glee . 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. than other news this hour facebook and instagram are continuing to block pro iranian accounts and news agencies this time targeting a professor at the university of tehran 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 published would be. unacceptable 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 my twitter account of their phone want to see if anyone who wants to see what i've read make them look at twitter and see if what i've written is doing is dangerous or nah. well the move does follow something of a recent trend the independent iranian news agency foss says its international website has been taken down after apparently falling foul of u.s.

sanctions said it had received an e-mail from its company which said it was blocked on u.s. what is also earlier this month press t.v. the english language t.v. network based in iran was removed from you tube star that the iranian funded channel say their page was closed without warning or explanation and comes as companies are under pressure to comply with u.s. sanctions you tube did it late to restore the page and save mohammad marandi again says it's far from the 1st time he's face it's moved 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 mere was disbanded 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 the what i put on my twitter account i put the same on facebook but apparently intolerance is on the rise in the united states and in the west towards any alternative news. bolivia's washington banked interim government has cut diplomatic ties with cuba the island nation blaming the white house and it comes as the u.s. blames russian trolls for damaging stability in latin america as caleb maupin 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 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 today 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 is activist was tweeting out as many as 69 posts in a single 2nd in his one accounting tweeted out more than 13000 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 the. hour 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. he doesn't know why my resigning so that madhu this cannot continue to post acute my socialist drug this it's my duty as an indigenous president and the president of old believing. 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 is to bolivian with one click produces more trees than over the next his efforts to support a dictator it's important to note that saurez isn't just a person who's highly interested in bolivian politics to oblivion himself he's also a veteran of the u.s. 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 says clearly 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 as support today to us in countries like bolivia and 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. caleb mopp and r.t. new york well that is your update for now will be back here at the top of the hour with more news from around the world must see then. what hope to do so. they put themselves on the line and they did accept the reject . so when you want to be president. wanted. to go to the press it's like that before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the how. question. becomes a passer mechanism right so they buy back their own stock with cheap money from the fed and it goes through the company ostensibly to help the company but it's not

it's it's disenfranchising the company and then on the other side the executives who are getting that money from the fed directly into their pocket they use the company as a passer mechanism so what happens is it leads to incredible malinvestment so boeing now is no longer a viable company. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember that it was most of the family were unemployed. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse subject of lives than today but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attacks. engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to know on. one set of rules for the rich offices.

that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch which is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of a man. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lobo trump's legal team strikes back after months of being on the receiving end of the democrats and media assaults.