To a very warm welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with mina carrying aussie germany with a large firework display and all more than 3000 fireworks lit up the russian capital skyline warsaw was occupied by nazi germany for 6 years 200000 soviet soldiers gave up their lives to stop the brutal regime in the city and its surroundings. The city stood empty and deserted the bodies of poles tortured and executed to be seen in ditches and sewer pipes theres not a single undamaged building remaining in warsaw objects of historical and Cultural Heritage plundered. I. Feel. It is with great joy as im reporting to you that today on january the 7945 joint forces of the soviet on his 1st television fronts and the polish 1st army have successfully completed an offensive operation the turning movement and have liberated the city of warsaw from that sea invaders once and for all. Our troops are critiqued by local police who politely into the streets to salute tell soldiers and officers when she is an expression woman great city to liberate the city from nazi occupation. Chose well flew and off he was a young boy when the nazis seized walsall heres how he describes life under occupation. There are no words when i was 11 years old and it came unexpectedly it started with an aerial bombardment i didnt even know that this could all be real like a bolt from the blue drums were falling out from the sky and your family and friends were dying blood and how were all around you no more became worse from the 10th of january and now its a plane stop conducting but you arent but they started dropping incendiary shelves full of White Phosphorus there were 2 periods when the terror had reached its highest point during that time hanged in shock people were lying in the street you were afraid to go outside because the cars could have come and taken anyone you were afraid to write a trend as no one knew where the germans might stop a person and take him somewhere terrible so the members approached the rules were simple everything was prohibited and you had no rights except working for the nazis this was a time when the whole society under stude particularly in warsaw should do everything to do as much harm espouse a bill to the occupier in august 1944 the polish resistance rose up against the occupiers the warsaw uprising lost it 63 days before being put down by the nazis at least 150000 people are believed to have died some in poland now accuse soviet forces of actually contribution to the failure of the warsaw uprising by not helping others persuade the soviet union as occupiers who bore little difference to the nazis however troias of recently declassified wartime documents point to a different. Quarter reports. The nazi occupation one of the darkest chapters in polands history nearly 6 long years of death and terror left its capital warsaw all but destroyed the occupiers and their collaborators divided the population by race millions of supposed undesirables shift off to perish in the ovens and gas chambers of the extermination camps women were raped in the streets men women and children mass occurred in pogroms only to be dumped into mass graves by the end of it all 90 percent of polish jews had been exterminated but 75 years ago on the 17th of january soviet forces liberated warsaw back then the people welcome to the soviet troops heres an account from newly declassified documents. The nazis committed astonishing and terrifying atrocities in poland evidence of human death and suffering was everywhere polish residents met so be it soldiers with happiness and joy for i was they stood in the streets greece in Red Army Troops they saluted officers and soldiers expressing gratitude for liberating the city from nazi occupation but for the citys government now the day the nazis were expelled is no longer an occasion to celebrate why while todays polish authorities dont look back with any fondness for those liberators or anything to do with moscow right now to them Vladimir Putin is a liar for daring to say poland benefited from the munich agreement which carved up czechoslovakia in 1938 giving nazi germany and warsaw the spoils the polish authorities also dont like that putin called their prewar ambassador an antisemite despite the envoys enthusiastic approval of hitlers plan to deport germanys jews to africa but of course its all really just russias plan to destroy polands great reputation a lie that is repeated a 1000 times becomes the truth as google said today were talking about an attempt to undermine confidence in poland in the eyes of the World Community and the kremlins intentions to sow Division Within the European Union and nato putin seeks to portray poland as supposedly the not quite right part of the west while these very statements are part of propaganda preparations ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz and the anniversary of the end of world war 2 could that mean israels in cahoots with russias propaganda plot to after all tell of eve didnt invite the polish president to speak at its auschwitz liberation ceremony hes decided to boycott the whole event in protest especially since Vladimir Putin is on the list of honored speakers it turns out that the president s of russia. Germany and france whose countries collaborated with nazi germany will speak but the organizers did not agree to a speech by the president of poland the ability to speak in regards to this matter is against the interests of the polish republic ok so poland doesnt want to rub shoulders with those abroad who dont support its historical narrative but at home the law gets tough if youre not on the same page anyone who publicly and contrary to the facts denies crimes referred to in article one shall be subject to find all the penalty of imprisonment of up to 3 years the sentence shall be made public except the law only mentions the crimes of the nazis twice most of the text is reserved for describing the actions of the countrys liberators from poland its not so much a question about who the good or bad guys were now its a mission to blur the lines between the 2 opposing ideologies fascism and communism as the 2nd world war fades from living memory the victim card becomes that much easier to play this day is not officially celebrated in poland we spoke to people in warsaw who had gathered to commemorate the liberation. This state has always been very important to us and solemnly celebrated this is changed over the last 5 to 6 years why i do not know these are political matters it can be interpreted differently the role of the red army in the liberation of warsaw was enormous the polish army that accompanied the red army was a component part of these forces but the predominant force was the red army. Every year fewer and fewer people remember about those events its sad because its our story the nation should know as history and remember it its sad to see change over the years but its good that the ceremony continues and that at least a handful of people remember that. I was in the labor camp and breslau the city was surrounded the very much for it with the surrounding subject unit and on may 7th 945. 00 i was liberated from this camp by Red Army Soldiers this date stuck in my memory same as generous 17th the date of the liberation of warsaw. The interpretation and politicize ation of history was also touched upon today by Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. Pullens attempt to smear and lie about our country both was regard to reasons and outcomes of the 2nd world war and attempts to now use these lies to undermine russias position in the International Arena abound to continue we know for a fact that our polish colleagues are trying to get western countries attending the commemoration ceremony in jerusalem to polands viewpoint on world war 2 you know its simply beyond the pale especially given the tragic context of the event. I was at that press conference for a while after ive made his remark. Time after time at this press event the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov it seems had nor their choice but to keep talking about washingtons behavior in terms of how it deals with other countries according to the tactic of constantly building up pressure while at the same time turning a blind eye on the International Law its not only that it hasnt changed in the Previous Year but actually expand it take for example the russia japan relations moscow believes that they have fallen victim to washingtons alliance with tokyo which according to surrogate is being used by the americans to continue convincing the rest of the world that russia is an enemy and a threat you can issue that should you put it is hosting u. S. Anti Missile Defense systems and the japanese colleagues have been telling us all along its meant as defense against the korean threats and thats only the Japanese Military will have control over it but its the very same u. S. Launches that have been tested by the u. S. Not only for launching anti missile defensive but also offensive missiles and have a look at the u. S. Military strategy of cooling russia a rival so we cant help but worry moving on to syria mr lavrov proudly pointed out that the conflict in that country was in the final stage of its resolution the final stage of anding the civil war there however mr lab did blame other countries mainly western countries for setting preconditions before they could start actually helping the country out for instance when it comes to assisting the refugees that could come back to the country or providing the ability to deliver humanitarian aid there plus Sergey Lavrov did point out that there is still a threat of the islamic terrorists hands being tied as a result of the mistakes deliberate or not by some of the forces on the ground which. Our allies to the us at the. End on the eastern bank of the euphrates around 10000 i still militants if im not mistaken are being held in detention camps by the Syrian Democratic forces who control those areas these are mainly kurdish fighters and receiving a lawman reports which were currently double checking that these fighters are releasing these terrorists in exchange for bribes and they are beginning to spread across syria the information is very alarming and weve long warned our American Partners who have sway over the as the of the need to make sure that i still militants are not allowed to escape those camps well this brings me to what proved to be the shortest answer of the Russian Foreign minister at this press conference and i guess it could serve as a lesson for the future generations of journalists dont ask Sergey Lavrov about impeachment proceedings in other countries because hes not in charge of that. On tuesday this huge against President Trump is expected to get under way in the senate many in the west say this could weaken your support for ukraine as transcending russias position how could you comment on that i would know the impeachment is in the us youre american you would know better than me. Going back to internal conflicts in all parts of the world and protest movements that moscow believes are being fueled by some of the nato countries and natos headmaster in particular sort of said that he doesnt think the situation will anyhow change in 2020 but that doesnt mean that moscow will stop its attempts to try and talk and still somehow cooperate. The Iran Nuclear Treaty was among other topics addressed by the Russian Foreign minister and she is data runs European Partners treat it as a 60 day mechanism that could potentially kill off the ill fated agreement however it turns out they did so under the threat of economic pressure from President Trump who pulled the u. S. Out of the deal in 2018 lover of slammed washington for applying double standards towards its partners. So gay lover of the clearly very unhappy with what he sees as pressure being placed on the european nations involved in the Iran Nuclear Deal to activate this clause thats known as the dispute resolution mechanism that ultimately could well bring about the well collapse of the whole or any a nuclear deal those words from the Russian Foreign minister some were echoed by the iranian Supreme Leader who is scathing in his criticism of britain france and germany the u. K. Germany and france are doing nothing they will serve u. S. Interests they just puppets while london paris and berlin may not agree with the comments that they are the puppets of the United States the news coming out of berlin certainly is that there was pressure put on those european capitals to well it here to what the United States wanted and they could. Use the current German Defense minister widely tipped as a potential successor to one glimmer chancellor one she calls it a day she said that yes there was a threat of a 25 percent tariff being. Placed on european imports of cars and car parts into the United States obviously that would be well almost catastrophic lee expensive for european Car Manufacturers particularly those big Car Manufacturers here in germany while britain france and germany moved to activate this clause in the Iranian Nuclear deal their respective Foreign Ministers issued a joint statement saying that they were still confident still had hope that the Iran Nuclear Deal could survive we have therefore been left with no choice given irans actions but to register today our concerns that iran is not meeting its commitments we do this in good face with the overarching goujet to have preserving the j. C. P. O. A well away from how much pressure was put on european nations to trigger this clause in the nuclear deal what that clause been triggered actually means is that in around 60 days time the United Nations could really impose sanctions on iran if that happens thats pretty much the death knell for the uranian nuclear deal something that would be cheered in washington the United States and donald trump in particular very keen to see the collapse of this deal it was donald trump who pulled the u. S. Out of the deal back in 2018 back in may of that year and since then has actively worked to try and see it collapse. The pentagon has rejected accusations that americas military leadership was incentivizing lying to the public about how the afghan war was going thats after americas top official responsible for afghanistans reconstruction told the u. S. Congress that washington was routinely lied about has routinely lied about the war by exaggerated reports on successes in the country r. T. With caleb more pain has more on the story. Washingtons top official overseeing afghan reconstruction has revealed that the u. S. Operations in afghanistan have been surrounded by lies about its progress heres what he said the problem is there is a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost require or for people to lie theres an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and who bruce now the pentagon has disputed some of what was said in the testimony of the special inspector heres their response the idea that there was some efforts to hide the truth the reality on the ground just doesnt hold water to this idea that they were somehow missed statements i dont think that really joels now the public was kept in the dark about these realities and instead of being told the truth about the situation fed reports about alleged progress to getting the impression that things were Getting Better and that this probably led to thousands of deaths on both sides of the conflict instead of telling the truth it was just a constant stream of alleged progress reports here some of what we heard. Would trying to do we didnt have the full goose newsham that would ruin the taking there is a fundamental get up and distancing of the front and the stated objectives. In the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary now these new revelations come in congressional testimony that comes just roughly a month after the afghanistan papers were published by the Washington Post now these afghanistan papers were a trove of documents from the office of the Inspector General now its important to note that these documents essentially say that u. S. Officials really didnt have any strategy for afghanistan and didnt really have an understanding of what was actually happening on the ground or an understanding of the country and the conditions there this is how it was put by a figure in the military who oversaw operations in afghanistan under the administrations of both bush and obama in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. That i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is within reach and were doing a tremendous job. And as you know a big part of the job is isis certainly the biggest and we. Weve got him down very low numbers now u. S. Troops have been in afghanistan for 17 years making it the longest war in all of us history at this point and as the war continues and as these new revelations reveals some aspects of the war that we