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saying the two countries should be what he calls best partners. hello, again. the superstorm in the united states specifically on the east coast where blizzard conditions and near hurricane winds are battering that part of the country. state of emergency have been declared in various states. let's show these from south new jersey connecticut, new york state, boston is badly affected. it is moving up toward canada. winter storm juneau as it's called could be dropping up to 90 centimeters on the east coast. more than 6500 flights canceled. many won't be taking off or

landing until wednesday. roads have been closed in new york. private vehicles banned from the streets. 60 million people could be affected by the snow and high winds. we have this report from boston. >> reporter: from maine to philadelphia, the northeastern united states is shutting down to prepare for one of the worst winter storms in decades. an emergency has been declared in several states closing schools, government agencies and banning most vehicles from the road. in massachusetts, 080 snowplows are hitting the street and boston residents are preparing for the worst. >> candles, flashlights, extra batteries, radios. board games. i got three children at home. >> reporter: in new york the subway shut early. broadway boarded up and new

yorkers struck in the elements as they headed home before the onslaught. >> we bought $40 worth of food and we are going to watch netflix. >> this is the calm before the storm. it's going to start in earnest. when it does it will come fast and hard. people have to be very very careful. >> reporter: wide disruption of public services will be disrupted throughout the next several days. trains with limited or no service. here in massachusetts, the blizzard is starting to kick in. parts of the states are expecting 30 inches of snow and there could be hurricane force winds off the coast bringing substantial power outages and flooding. the northeast is bracing for a bad couple days. bbc news boston. >> it shows clearly, as the snow was arriving. what does it look like now, jay?

>> it looks like a big storm on the radar. it shows a very extensive area of rain and snow. it's got implications. we are seeing large snowfall totals in this part of the world. here is the radar. it's a bright color in boston. that indicates very heavy snowfall. we haven't seen the worst of it yet. the snow is falling hard as i mentioned. it's not just snow it's really wet weather from snow inland and very strong winds on top of that. gusts of wind over 70 miles an hour in nantucket in the south of massachusetts. here are some of the snow depths recently in new york state and long island. it's more than enough. in ohio state, around 18 to 20 centimeters of snow. there's still more to come. on top of that it's really

really cold out there. actual temperatures in boston and new york minus two to minus six. it feels like minus eight in new york minus 15 in boston. it's going to stay really really cold. the snow is not going to go anywhere. the snow is moving away from the united states into eastern canada. really very windy conditions and a large area of snow. we'll pull away from the united states, get to the eastern side of canada where the destruction will continue. there's plenty more from this storm, still to come. >> thank you very much indeed jay, with the updates on the superstorm as it moves across the united states and canada. today is the 20th anniversary of auschwitz.

ceremonies have begun. more than 1 million people dying at the sight in poland. the vast majority jews. our correspondent is there. care caroline? >> the youngest survivor to return today is 72. the oldest in his 90s. some will be back many times. it is hard to come back to a place where every single one of them suffered and lived with death. you can see behind me the kind of weather conditions. the watchtower there, these are, i suppose the symbols of the holocaust. this is the place where over 1 million people died. many who came through the gates with the inscription work makes

you free. for those coming back they are took part in the replay. there will be prayers and candles lit to remember the darkness that fell on europe during the holocaust. this morning, the wall of death. executed prisoners with a single shot. in 1945 in auschwitz, the executions seemed like mercy. the executions on an industrial scale. the memories no less painful today despite the passing of the years. >> i always think about it. it's in front of me. i fear that it happened. >> she summoned the strength to return and confront the shadows of the past. >> i was just 10 years old. i knew the war, you know but i

didn't understand what was going to happen and why everybody was so nervous about it. i soon found out for myself. >> reporter: as a mother father and sister she was forced into the ghetto before transported to auschwitz. >> they unbolted opened the doors. we looked outside and awaited the train. the screaming and bellowing, get off the train, get a move on be quick. it's -- it was so terribly frightening, you can't describe that. my father jumped off. i jumped off. by the time i jumped off, i didn't see him anymore. without a kiss without a good-bye, he disappeared into thin air. i never saw him again. they took men to one side women to the other side. guards moved in and shoved us

into columns. this is the place where people have been taken straight into the gas chambers. we were told to stay leave our clothes on the benches. everyone had their head shaved. then we were pushed through some very heavy rooms that looked like a shower room. no windows, only slats. everyone was saying prayers, kissing one another saying it was our last -- we were the lucky ones. they still needed us for very hard work. walter came through. we never believed we would come out alive of auschwitz. >> reporter: she did survive, but lost mer mother father and sister. why return today to auschwitz, to a place of such horror?

>> weld over. if we won't speak out, i was one of the lucky ones who survived where so many did not. if we won't speak out, the world won't know what happened. that's why we do it. >> reporter: you heard her there. she is one of the many survivors, perhaps hundreds coming back that despite the bitter cold the weather and the pain and grief that is still with them they are determined to bear witness on behalf of those who can't. the cruelty, the bitter cold the starvation the inhumanity that was carried out here by the nazis, guards who were human beings, but were dehumanized. prisoners names were taken away

they were given a number. some will make speeches to tell the world, once again, while they are alive of what happened here. a clear message that it can never happen again. they say, today in europe auschwitz still stands as a symbol and warning against intolerance, humanity and singling people out because of religion, race or belief. that message will still be heard clearly across europe and the rest of the world today. >> thank you very much. caroline in auschwitz at the anniversary. caroline will be back in a half hour with more stories of survivors from the auschwitz camp. here in london a public inquiring of a former russian spy. it has begun. he was poisoned with radioactive

polonium. the inquiry has been under way for an hour now. the investigation whether the kremlin was involved in his death. that may be heard in secret. our security correspondent is gordon. >> reporter: what was ravaging his body was a mystery to medical staff. he knew he was dying. his widow recalls his final words to her. >> he was smiling but in a sad way. i said i'm coming tomorrow. i will stay with you all day. he said, i love you so much. >> reporter: from his hospital bed, he was also able to tell police who he believed was responsible. >> he was able to speak, able to

sign. he said who he thinks is responsible for his death. >> reporter: investigators followed a radioactive trail against london. that suggested he was poisoned not on the first attempt, but the third. police believe this man actually carried out the killing along with another man. both deny it. they met him, a critic of the kremlin at the pine bar at the millennium hotel. they slipped radioactive polonium into his tea. this was no ordinary inquiry. they say whoever oversaw the investigation, there was a strong forensic trail left behind because of the way it's ingested. what was unusual, of course was having radioactivity involved. this was unprecedented. >> reporter: the inquiry will be in public.

it might point to the kremlin being involved, will be in secret. he carried out work for the british secret service, mi6, received regular payments from them and was visited in his hospital bed as he lay dying by his mi6 handler. the details of that relationship are likely to be heard in the open session of this inquiry. this may be the final opportunity to learn whether alexander's death was, as one lawyer put, an act of state sponsored nuclear terrorism on the streets of london. bbc news. on facebook and instagram, they are back online after having been down for 40 minutes or so. it affected millions of the sites users across asia the u.s. and australia.

facebook says it wasn't a hacker's problem. the technology report for bbc news asked them if we can be sure it wasn't a hack. >> i think we can take them for their word. if we believe facebook, it wasn't an attack. to see a hack on this scale would be i think, quite unprecedented. if you think about the numbers of people use zing facebook and instagram and kinder it would be a service attack which is what we see when services are taken down by hackers. it would be on a scale which would be very very difficult to do. we are talking hundreds of thousands of people affected rather than millions. it affected people across the world and makes sense given what facebook has said. it was their issue internally. >> 40 minutes, at the end of the

day, is not that big of a problem. could it be more serious because of facebook and people getting upset and will use another social media? >> we are on social media constantly. you are right, it is an embarrassment, to a certain extent. they need to be secure and provide a reliable service and for the companies that advertise which facebook relies on to make money. it will be looking into what caused this i'm sure. it does happen from time to time less frequently now that facebook has grown to such a large scale with such a huge infrastructure. they can go offline and cause problems for people. >> still to come dramatic pictures, a miraculous escape for this single engine airplane as it falls out of the sky. you totaled him. you two had been

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hello, you are watching bbc news. i have the latest headlines. thousands of flights have been canceled as the united states braces for a blizzard. hundreds of survivors from the nazi death camp of auschwitz. there's another indication from greece of how the new government is planning to approach paying back the bailout. this is the choice of the new finance minister. he says he plans to get to the job. he's been outspoken. repaying the massive debt should be based on growth in the greek economy. greece is a big business story, but russia is as well.

>> russia has more problems there. good to see you. standard and poor s & p downgraded russia's credit rating to junk as the economy continues to weaken. many investors around the world, can no longer buy the country's debt. it is the first time in more than ten years their debt is rated below investment grade. russia's economy has been in a free fall since the middle of last year when plummeting oil prices cut the income for the oil industry and the unrest in ukraine. russia's economy is expected to go backwards, into reverse by 3% to 4% putting russia the country, into a recession. hey, it's official. dubai international is now the world's busiest airport for global travelers. annual figures for 2014 show

that 70.47 million international passengers used that airport. that's more than london's heathrow. how has dubai done it? we are going to talk about the future expansion plans, big, ambitious expansion plans. are they sustainable? that's what we are going to talk about. the board of the irish airline. it controls liberia and spain and made a third attempt yesterday. the deal that values it just under $1.5 billion could face political hurdles. they own 25% of the airline. the primary interest is you guessed it 23 pairs of take off and landing slots at heathrow.

we are going to have more on that coming up on gmt. follow me on twitter, i'll tweet you back. just over an hour. >> barack obama has left india. he's on his way to saudi arabia having spent three days in india. before he left he spoke of the economic relationship between the two countries. he made a speech in new delhi. we were there. >> reporter: adoring crowd there trying to take pictures and shake hands. the president of the united states barack obama and first lady michelle obama on the final day of their visit. they met members of the government, politicians, chief executives. today, it was about meeting the people. these are people from the sector, university students.

he talks about how the united states wants to be a big partner for india. >> as india pursues more trade and investments, we want to be first in line. we are ready to join you in building new infrastructure the roads and airports. the bullet trains to propel india into the future. >> reporter: in that speech among the young audience is what he had to say about equal opportunity for women and men. what he said that -- anywhere in the world to not hesitate before going out at a certain time of the day and to be -- to have the same opportunities men do. that's really important. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: this was president obama's last event in india.

from all the meetings he's had and the declaration of friendship announced between india and the u.s. both sides see the trip as a success. >> there's more reaction to president obama's visit to india with matthew. he's there in delhi today. he's there all week presenting his program, "global." it is with matthew at 1500 gmt here on "bbc world news." we have breaking news from libya. gunmen thought to have taken hostage inside a luxury hoe it will in tripoli, a group of gunman attacked the hotel. it's used by foreign nationals. reports of a number of security guards have been killed. our correspondent in tripoli. this is a very fluid situation. what do you know at the moment? >> we believe it's still

unfolding. we spoke to multiple sources in the last couple hours. one was a witness, but didn't see the gunman when they answered the hotel. he was in the back area. he said he heard shooting and people running toward him. then, they escaped through the back door of the hotel and managed to get out of the compound completely before the hotel went into lockdown. we have no reports of any deaths of guards at the hotel. we have spoken to security guards at the scene. they claim that there were three gunmen who entered and they are still in the hotel. there has been an arrest of one gunman. we haven't been able to verify that with a second source. that's according to one security guard. >> it's ongoing. asp reporting a couple minutes ago, gunfire is heard as security forces surround the hotel.

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thousands of flights canceled as emergency services brace for blizzard conditions in the northeast of the u.s. and canada. survivors of the nazi death camp at auschwitz. a public inquiry into the death of the former spy is under way in london. this time to find out whether russian agents were involved in his death. the american president, barack obama left india saying the two countries should be what

he called, best partners. hello, again. blizzard conditions near hurricane force winds blasting the eastern coast of the united states. a state of emergency declared in a number of the key scenarios, new jersey connecticut, new york, massachusetts and boston. also rhode island and new hampshire. it's called winter storm juneau. it could be dropping up to 90 centimeters of snow off the eastern coast. there's been plenty of travel. road flights canceled roads closed. 60 million people could be affected by the snow and high

winds. our correspondent in boston reports. >> reporter: from maine to philadelphia, the northeastern united states is shutting down to prepare for one of the worst winter storms in decades. an emergency has been declared in several states closing schools, government agencies and banning most vehicles from the road. in massachusetts, 800 snowplows are hitting the street. boston residents are preparing for the worst. >> candle, flashlights, extra batteries, radios board games. i got three children at home. >> reporter: in new york the subway shut early. broadway boarded up and new yorkers struck with the elements as they headed home. >> we went to buy $40 worth of food and netflix.

>> this is literally the calm before the storm. it's about to start in earnest. when it does it will come in fast and hard. people have to be very very careful. >> reporter: widespread distrux is expected. thousands of flights already canceled. the train operators warning of limited or no service. here in massachusetts, the blizzard is really starting to kick in. parts of the state are expecting up to 30 inches of snow. there could be hurricane force winds off the coast, bringing substantial power outages and flooding. the northeast united states is bracing itself for a bad couple of days. bbc news boston. >> indeed it's supposed to get worse in the next few hours. two hours ago, i spoke to an abc correspondent and she told us of the conditions there.

>> reporter: it's not as bad as we expected. we were predicting snowmageddon. we have only gotten a couple inches. the high is only supposed to be 40 degrees. forgive me for not knowing what that is in celsius. boston is really being pummeled. >> schools are going to be closed? it's going to be bad for the whole day. >> reporter: yes. actually there is a complete travel ban out here. we are not allowed to be on the roads at all unless you are emergency personnel or exemption for the press. that's supposed to continue. the entire storm advisory will continue until midnight tomorrow. >> the united nations is going to be closed. what about other areas? do you know about the details? you told us about boston. do you know about anything else happening along the eastern coast there? >> reporter: sure, along the

coastline, they are getting tremendous winds and very high swells. the tide as it comes in later throughout the night, or sorry, throughout the morning, it's going to be much worse battling the areas along the coastline. long island is being hard hit. further south of us philadelphia, the storm warning has been lifted. that is good news there. >> there's a breaking and developing story occurring in libya. the government has taken hostages in the capitol hotel in tripoli. the hotel is often used by foreign nationals. a car bomb was found outside. reports a number of security guards have been killed from the associated press. our correspondent in tripoli, about ten minutes ago, gave us the latest. >> we spoke to multiple sources. one was a witness, but didn't see the gunman when they ent

everied the hotel. he was in the back area. he said he heard shooting and people were running toward him. then they escaped through the back door of the hotel and managed to get out of the compound completely before the hotel went into lockdown. we have no reports of any death of guards at the hotel. we have spoken to security guards at the scene. they claim that there were three gunmen who entered and they are still in the hotel. there has been an arrest of one gunman. we haven't been able to verify that with a second source. that's according to one security force on the ground. >> it's very much ongoing. reporting gunfire has been heard. security forces surround the hotel. >> it is ongoing. the entire area around it has been sealed off. we have been told by one source as well from the interior

ministry that they received a threat a few days ago telling them to empty the building and a similar threat not far away from them in financial district. >> a couple other stories, french security forces launched a raid on jihadists in countries. at least four people arrested in the town of lunel. people have gone to iraq and syria to join isis. three airlines -- after a plane came under fire monday evening. two passengers suffered slight injuries when bullets hit the fuselage. other flights resume as usual. suspended efforts to recover the records of the airasia plane last month with 162 people on board. only 70 bodies have been

retrieved so far. rescuers have been encountering rough seas and stormy weather. we have the report. >> officials believe that most of the bodies were trapped inside the fuselage. a lot of resources report into lifting it out of the water. after three days of flying rescuers found that the wreckage couldn't be lifted. it kept splintering into smaller and smaller pieces. they found a few bodies inside. now they believe there's no more left. they told us a few of the divers involved in the operation have to be treated for decompression sickness. after weighing the cost and effectiveness of the operation, he decided to pull the forces. a few weeks ago, they promised that the search would not stop until all bodies were recovered. that seems unrealistic now. the officials believe there's no

more bodies left in the biggest wrokage they found. finding more victims is a bigger challenge. the search and rescue agency is evaluating when the stop all together. marking the 70th anniversary to the day of the liberation by the soviet army. from auschwitz, caroline reports. >> reporter: the wall of death death -- the executions here seem like mercy. the gas chambers brought death on an industrial scale. some came back to auschwitz, the memories no less. >> it's in front of me.

i fear that it happened. >> reporter: she summoned the strength to return and confront the shadows of the past. >> i was just 10 years old. i knew there was the war, you know, but i didn't understand what was going to happen and why did everybody was so nervous about it. i soon found out for myself. >> reporter: with her mother father and sister they were forced into the ghetto before they were transported to auschwitz. >> when we looked outside, they awaited the train. the screaming and bellowing, get off the train, get a move on be quick. it was so terribly frightening, you can't describe that. my father jumped off. i jumped off after him.

by the time i jumped off, i didn't see him anymore. without a kiss without a good-bye, he disappeared into thin air. i never saw him again. they took men to one side women to the other side. guards moved in and shoved us into columns. this is the place where people have been taken straight into the gas chambers. we were told to stay leave our clothes on the benches. everyone had their head shaved. then we are pushed through some very heavy room that looked like a shower room. no windows, only slats. everyone was saying prayers, kissing one another. we were told that was our last -- we were the lucky ones. they still needed us for very hard work. so water came through, not gas.

we never believed we would come out alive of auschwitz. >> she did survive, she lost her mother father and sister. why return today to auschwitz, to a place of horror. >> there are a lot of deniers. if we won't speak out, i was one of the lucky ones who survived where so many did not. if we won't speak out, the world won't know what happened. that's why we do it. auschwitz survivor speaking to our correspondent, caroline. certainly, it is the focus of attention for the world today. what's it like living in the shadows of the death camp? bbc has been to the modern

daytime. one of europe's very darkest periods. >> you don't probably feel it 24 hours a day. sure there are moments and you reflect on what you are doing, what is your job about. on the other hand, this is what makes it meaningful. i have been working as a conservator in the museum. when we saw the preservation process, we tried to find traces of the people who were imprisoned there and to preserve them, to keep them to give them a special protection. there is a whole variety of

materials that we have to deal with. sensible buildings, both brick and other buildings. then all kind of objects that were found here after the camp was liberated. so these are archives and the prisoners belongings like suitcases, even toothbrushes. some of the objects are more personal. for example, shoes. these are very very personal items that belonged to the people who are murdered here. so of course we always keep in mind to preserve these objects. we try to commemorate the

victims of victims. of course they are very emotional moments. not everybody can work here. >> the 70th anniversary of the concentration camp here on "bbc world news." we'll have continuing coverage throughout the day. still to come pictures that are incredible. this single engine airplane was falling right out of the sky. the heroes you've been admiring. the worlds you've been dreaming of. the thrills you've been craving. the moments you've been missing. the vacation you've been looking for is here. come and take it. universal orlando resort.

hello, welcome to bbc news. i have the latest headlines. thousands of flights have been con selled as emergency services brace for blizzards in the u.s. and canada. hundreds of survivors from auschwitz. trying to find out whether russian agents were involved in a man's death.

a public inquiry on the death of a man. he was poisoned in 2006. bbc learned that was an attempt to kill him in london. the inquiry is under way at the court of justice. our security correspondent is there. >> reporter: what was ravaging his body was a mystery to medical staff. he knew he was dying. his widow recalls his final words to her. >> he was smiling but in a sad way. i said don't worry, i'm coming tomorrow morning. i will stay with you all day. he said, i love you so much. >> reporter: from his hospital bed, he was also able to tell police who he believed was responsible. >> he was able to speak, able to sign.

he said who he thinks is responsible for his death. >> reporter: investigators followed a radioactive trail across london. that suggested he was poisoned not on the first attempt, but the third. police believe this man actually carried out the killing along with another man. both deny it. they met him, a critic of the kremlin at the pine bar at the millennium hotel. they slipped radioactive polonium into his tea. this was no ordinary inquiry. the police officer who oversaw the investigation says -- >> there was a strong forensic trail left behind because of the way it's ingested. what was unusual, of course, was having radioactivity involved. this was unprecedented. >> reporter: the inquiry will be in public. material from the intelligence

services which might point to the kremlin being involved, will be heard in secret. he carried out work for the british secret service, mi6, received regular payments from them and was visited in his hospital bed as he lay dying by his mi6 handler. the details of that relationship are unlikely to be heard in the open session of this inquiry. eight years on this may be the final opportunity to learn whether his death was, as one lawyer put, an act of state sponsored nuclear terrorism on the streets of london. bbc news. barack obama has left india. he's on his way to saudi arabia. at the end of the three-day visit, he spoke about the untapped potential of economic relationship in the two countries. in a speech in delhi, talked of

resolving disputes personally. >> america wants to be your partner in the next wave of indian growth. as india pursues more trade and investment, we want to be first in line. we are ready to join you in building new infrastructure roads and airports the ports, bullet trains to propel india into the future. we are ready to help design smart cities that serve citizens better. we want to develop more technology with india. >> we are going to have more on that for you with matthew. he's in delhi and will be there all week. the program is at 1500 gmt here on "bbc world news." facebook and instagram users

were not able to access the site 40 minutes today. it affected millions of the sites users across asia, the u.s. and australia. facebook says it wasn't a hacker's problem. it's a change they were making to their configuration system. jonathan blake is the reporter. they were only down 40 minutes. can we be sure it wasn't a hack? >> i think we can take them at their word because, with the benefit of hindsight. if you believe facebook it wasn't a third party attack. to see the hack of this scale, it would be unprecedented. think of the number of people using facebook and kindle. it would be a service attack which is what we see when services are taken down by hackers. it would be on a scale that would be very very difficult to do. you are talking hundreds of thousands of people affected

rather than millions which was the case here. it affected people across the world. i think it was make sense, given what facebook said it was their own issue. >> 40 minutes at the end of the day is not that big of a problem. could it be more serious because facebook is a company and people might get upset and use another social media? >> for most of us it's frustrating. we are on social media almost constantly in many cases. you are right, it is an embarrassment. they need to be secure and provide a reliable service to users and companies that advertise on facebook. so, it will be looking into what caused it i'm sure. i haven't gone into detail about what the problem was. it does happen from time-to-time. less frequently now that facebook has grown to such a large scale. it shows even they can go

offline and cause problems for people. >> we have more detail for you regarding the story from libya and tripoli there. gunmen attacking one of the most prominent hotels. the hotel that is often used by foreign travelers. it shows a bomb blast that was reported. the smoke you can see rising from very close to the hotel. at least one person is thought to have been killed. there are reports that it could be up to three guards. twitter accounts associated with the islamic group in libya says it is behind the attack and it is an ongoing situation. as more news comes in we'll bring it to you. another indication from greece and how the government there plans on paying back. >> the leader is an economist that has been very outspoken.

his argument is repaying should be linked to the growth of the greece economy. dramatic pictures of what must have been a horrifying ordeal. a single engine airplane falls from the sky and lands safely into the pacific ocean. we have the report. >> reporter: from a distance the california to hawaii flight appears to be rather routine. the plane is running out of fuel. suddenly, the engine stops. in a split second a life saving decision. the pilot ejects the parachute. it air dives plummeting to the sea. more than 400 kilometers from his destination, the pilot pulled out a life raft and

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hello, you are watching gmt on "bbc world news." tens of millions of americans brace themselves for a snowstorm. snow up and down the northeast coast. state of emergency are declared in six states. the snow could be historic. >> reporter: i'm live in new york. the city dubbed the worst of the storm, but the blizzard rages to the east. >> a traditional farewell to india from president obama who cut short his trip there. he's