hundreds of thousands of displaced palestinians are returning home to northern gaza. these are live pictures from the gaza strip. the belarus president has been re—elected winning over 86% of the vote. the eu says the vote was a blatant affront to democracy. china's ai model deep seek has become the most downloaded app on the apple i store. people are gathering at auschwitz to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation. prince charles is expected to make a speech later. in belarus, officials say alexander lukashenko has won the general election which was

held on sunday. he has been in power since 1994. critics say mr lukashenko, a close ally of vladimir putin, rig the polls to ensure a large margin of victory by eitherjail and his opponents or sending them to excel. the eu has said it is a blatant affront election officials claimed that he got 87% of the vote. as we marvel at these astronomical numbers it is important to keep in mind that he feels no serious challenger in this election. all his biggest rivals, his most vocal critics, are either in prison or in political exile. there were other candidates on the ballot, four of them. i met a couple earlier this week. one

of them said to me that he is a supporter of alexander lukashenko. his campaign slogan was knocked in place of lukashenko, but together with him. another candidate was full of praise for alexander lukashenko. that gives a flavour of the kind of election this was. as what happened at a polling station yesterday where he cast his ballot. he came to the polling station, he voted and then he proceeded to give a 4.5 hour press conference live on television. this is one of the voting was going on and he was like for 4.5 hours on television. it was an opportunity for journalists to ask him about this controversial election, so i did ask him how can you consider the selection to be democratic when your biggest rivals are in prison or in exile? he said everyone has the

right to choose. this is democratic. some people choose prison, some people choose exile. in reality, back in 2028 was the authorities fear that used to targets mr lukashenko�*s critics and opponents as it cracked down on those mass protests after the twenty20 presidential election. let's turn to a big development in al. netzarim —— deepseek has overtaken chap gpt in the number of downloads in america. they said that deepseek has shown it is possible to develop

ai at much lower costs. this has raised alarm on the stock markets were china potentially taking over america in its ai efforts. ourasia taking over america in its ai efforts. our asia business correspondent has more. deepseek sought to dig up on the apple app store. deepseek is a chinese company and last week it rolled out a free assistant which users lower cost chips and less data. that could challenge a wide spread bet in financial markets that al bet in financial markets that ai will drive investment and demand as a supply chain from chip makers to data centres. it also raises a lot of questions about the sky—high valuation of the likes of nvidia. shares of nvidia have risen 196% since the start of 2024. that might be one of the reasons we are

seeing the nasdaq futures come down. analysts say may be such powerful ai technology is possible after all on more cost—effective chips. little is known about deepseek, but there are lots of reviews on apple because mac app store and the google play store praising its transparency and that is because its model explained its reasoning behind answers to prompts and queries. around the globe and across the uk, this is bbc news.

hello, good to have you back here with us at auschwitz—birkenau. it was 80 years ago today that we saw allied troops reached the gates

of auschwitz—birkenau and discovered when they arrived at the full horror of this notorious nazi concentration and extermination camp were more than 1.1 million men women and children had been murdered, the majority of them jewish people. commemorations will be held here and throughout the world on holocaust memorial day. around 50 people who survived the death camp will be here and there will be alongside world leaders as the messages sent out around the globe that it must never be allowed to happen again. we know that the majority of those killed in the holocaust were jewish people, but the nazis also persecuted 93 macro and 94 macro, killing a quarter of a million men, women and children. many of them died here at auschwitz—birkenau. let's speak now to the president of the international 93 macro youth network. good to

have you with us. watched your people went through is not known by many people are often talked about. what did the 93 macro go through during that period of the holocaust? everything started with the lot of hate back in the nazi period. this is what our community faced. many countries started the deportation —— deportation of 93 macro communities. it was tough for the community. we had a lot of hate and they decided together with the jewish to hate and they decided together with thejewish to punisher community. d0 with the jewish to punisher community-— community. do you feel commemorations - community. do you feel commemorations like . community. do you feel - commemorations like today are important for your community? it is very important to have commemorations such are happening right now. most of the time this is not recognised

by many many countries still. after eight years after the event. this is why we are organising a commemoration through our initiatives.- through our initiatives. what kind of education _ through our initiatives. what kind of education takes - through our initiatives. what| kind of education takes place for the young people in your community? i for the young people in your community?— for the young people in your community? i have your one example _ community? i have your one example that _ community? i have your one example that has _ community? i have your one example that has been - community? i have your one | example that has been going community? i have your one - example that has been going for 15 years, we started in 2010. it is 15 years of commemoration since the event started. it means look and don't forget. it focuses on the younger generation. we are bringing them together and discussing about holocaust remembrance and education, allowing them to space to discuss further about it and we empower them to use the knowledge at a local level.

this is very powerful and we are doing it together with many organisations from different countries. organisations from different countries-— organisations from different countries. ., , , countries. your community still faces a lot _ countries. your community still faces a lot of _ countries. your community still faces a lot of discrimination. i faces a lot of discrimination. how important is that the people understand what happened in your past so you can help build a civil society where you can look more to the future now as well? it can look more to the future now as well? , , ., , , as well? it is still happening and you're _ as well? it is still happening and you're totally _ as well? it is still happening and you're totally right, - as well? it is still happening and you're totally right, our| and you're totally right, our community is still facing a lot of discrimination after so many years and so many things that happen to the community. here we canjust talk happen to the community. here we can just talk about the holocaust. other countries have had different stages of the atrocities. in romania we had 500 years of slavery, which is another step of atrocity. that is why i think it is very

important for the community, but also for the majority to understand that here there is something about history, but also about resilience. we have survived everything we have gone through. still we are here. we are fighting against all the actions that you're going against our community. that is why we are bringing the young people because the young people are the ones who can deliver the information to the others also and we are empowering the other generations that are coming after us. beside that, our events are also targeting the holocaust survivors. we are bringing the holocaust survivors, to discuss with the younger generation, to discuss the information, knowledge and have the shared communication between them, because we find it very important and powerful

as a tool. this exactly what is happening. the younger generation are intrigued. it is a very powerful— generation are intrigued. it is a very powerful message and it is important that you could share it with us.— is important that you could share it with us. thank you for the invitation. _ share it with us. thank you for the invitation. everyone - share it with us. thank you for the invitation. everyone that l the invitation. everyone that ou the invitation. everyone that you speak — the invitation. everyone that you speak to _ the invitation. everyone that you speak to here _ the invitation. everyone that you speak to here at - the invitation. everyone that i you speak to here at auschwitz talks about the focus of today? commemorations because while presidents, prime ministers, european royalty will be here, the focus has to be on the victims of the holocaust. here at auschwitz there is one building that is right on the edge of the camp that has more significance than others and thatis significance than others and that is because it belonged once to rudolf hess, the notorious commandant, he was often called the butcher of auschwitz. he choreographed much of the horrors that happened here from the house.

the house has been bought by an anti—extremism organisation and they invited me to have a look as they opened the doors to the public today. this unassuming house is opening its doors to its horrific past.— opening its doors to its horrific past. jewish people were not — horrific past. jewish people were not allowed _ horrific past. jewish people were not allowed to - horrific past. jewish people were not allowed to enter. horrific past. jewish people i were not allowed to enter the house and now they are part of a new history of this house. overlooking auschwitz one, it was the home of the nazi commandant rudolf hess and his family. the dream life of the family. the dream life of the family is depicted in the oscar—winning film zone of interest. herwife oscar—winning film zone of interest. her wife called the house at paradise, the house from where her husband planned the murder of one per1 million people. the top floor of the

house was built by prisoners to house was built by prisoners to house the rapidly expanding hess family, including the fifth child who was born in this house. so