recycling. transport can help regional airline find out what you can do today at regional the lines of. this is due to the news coming to you live from berlin a massive suicide bombing iraq's kabul officials say ninety five people are dead and more than a hundred fifty others are wounded also coming up during police shut down a huge kurdish demonstration in cologne to approach out as turkey's intervention in syria. and also ahead remembering the holocaust survivors and their families have

gathered at the former auschwitz death camps marking international holocaust remembrance day it comes amid warnings of rising anti semitism in europe. and we'll meet a ninety five year old holocaust survivor who's working to ensure the atrocities of world war two never happen again. you're. i'm sorry welcome to the show it's good to have you with us at least ninety five people have been killed in a major explosion in the afghan capital kabul the country's interior ministry also says more than one hundred fifty others were injured in the suicide bomb attack which happened at a police checkpoint on saturday morning the taliban have claimed responsibility. the attacker made it past the first checkpoint posing as a paramedic transporting

a patient in an ambulance the bomb was detonated when he was identified by police at the second checkpoint. i was sitting in my shop when there was a powerful explosion only windows shattered. the casualties are very high bodies were everywhere near the hospital and everyone. a hospital coordinator described the attack as a massacre the blast happened on a busy street during lunch hour the area is home to several foreign embassies and government buildings this is the second major taliban attack in kabul in the past eighty s. that's despite reassurances from the government and its u.s. allies that their joint offensive against the taliban was succeeding.

earlier on we spoke to the kabul based journalist talking here to jury we asked him how people in afghanistan are coping with the situation people in afghanistan are shocked horrified and everyone is actually puzzled because it is not the first attack which happened in kabul over the last few days actually because if it is one of the serious attacks which happened here full of people we talked to our own photos media as well everyone is really sad and criticizing a lot of people of course you know asking the government to fire some of the senior afghan officials a security officer afghans when you speak on the street they believe that the afghan government is so much busy with the politics and accusing the neighboring countries that they forget to ensure the security of afghans this isn't especially in the capital kabul for example any in a few days i could say that probably is under siege but it is not only called but the whole afghanistan is under siege i mean over the last few weeks. have been a serious of attacks across the country in the north of the country for example in

south yesterday was in kandahar and today as well i think in one of the thousand provinces as well so it is actually the total failure people believe it is a total failure of the afghan security forces even though to bring it to the audience attention that hewitt's embassy couple of days ago they issued a warning saying that the end might be an attack against a restaurant whose house or some of the busiest places in kabul that we have been actually witnessing at least two attacks in kabul. and that was journalist talk here could jerry speaking to us earlier from kabul please the german city of cologne of broken up a demonstration by kurds who are protesting turkey's offensive on kurdish fighters in syria authorities decided to shut it down after protesters refused to stop waving flags shelled band symbols security was tight at the protest with fears that the violence could break out between kurds and turks who support the military operation turkish president roger type early on has criticized german authorities

for allowing for protest on not committing turkish pro-government i watched the rallies. of a kurdish demonstrators and hope their protests will draw attention to the human cost of turkey's military operation in northern syria many of them have friends and family there and say they fear for their laws. they came from across germany united against the turkish military offensive in the kurdish held and play for a free this is cool has done her family are from the affected area that civilians are being killed the murder and hatred have to stop it's not rice the. turkish troops in the light syrian fighters have led a week long offensive in raging german skirts the use of tanks made in germany has added to their anger. commissions us concern that this rise that so full to know that my own government is providing weapons that are being used against my people.

than was born in germany it's her home but the father so very much with her family in a free communication with them has been difficult friends and relatives have been following every development on the. there's no connection directly to mount books on the dollar so much for guns non-doctor diligence drives on the border what we can see into turkey. the troops also have other weapons it's not only. they've been shot but you can hardly leave their homes there's a scared for their life. green two years ago with his father and two sisters his mother was too ill to join them she stayed behind with his two youngest sibling and application with german immigration all parties put a family to be reunified. a few days ago the family's home and the queen was bumped

. around two in the morning from turkey landed in her bedroom. in one of. my with my brother was asleep and my sister was playing on her mobile phone. with the office of one of our mother who was also asleep. so she went brother was killed instantly his sister lost both her legs and remains in intensive care along with their mother who was seriously injured so. at first i couldn't believe my brother had been killed. he was seventeen years old and just a civilian he says for this. he wasn't a fighter. he was just a regular person is of service. the families are still in shock they spend a lot of time looking at photos and videos uploaded but in neighbors in syria.

and libya most of all i live here but i want to be able to visit my family i want to see them alive. williston hasn't been to a friend for many years before the war started in syria she spent her whole these hoping with. those days there are distant memory you know the chances of being peaceful with her family once again appear almost impossible. to look now at some of the other stories that are making news around the globe saudi arabian billionaire prince all one leave alone has been released from detention this comes more than two months after he was confined to a luxury hotel in what the kingdom called a crackdown on corruption prominent businessman was accused of money laundering why worry an extortion all of which is tonight. protesters have clashed with police in honduras after the country's president was sworn in for a second term won orlando or nando's was narrowly were elected in november after

the supreme court ruled he could run again the opposition do not accept the result and accuse the government. paris is on high alert for flooding as the river sun is expected to take it for meters of. authorities have shut roads train stations and rail lines hundreds of people have been evacuated. well today is international holocaust remembrance day and it's marked every year on the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz nazi concentration camp in one nine hundred forty five when the prisoners and their families placed candles on the central monument at the site of a camp in poland some six million jews along with millions of others were murdered by nazi germany during the second world war most of them in camps like that's. for decades now holocaust survivors have played

a central role in teaching younger generations about the horrors of the nazi genocide w. met ninety five year old market meisner in the us capital of washington d.c. she is among those who are working to uphold the memory of the victims. margaret meissner was born in austria and race in practical slovakia in one nine hundred thirty four the growing anti semitism in her city became more and more noticeable so markets mother center to paris and joined a year later. but the influence of the ninety's was soon felt in france as well. one day markets mother received a letter so i went to the police station with hood us the will you take your sis none of your business and worry you to. go home so here i was burma served my mother was gone. we had moved money markets mother was deported to girl internment camp in southern france margaret was eighty years

old alone and had to find a way out of europe she fled paris on a bicycle at the same time her mother succeeded in escaping the internment camp by some miracle the mother and daughter found each other just twelve kilometers from good. together they made their way to spain where they found a way to travel to america. but he was not to be they were picked up by the spanish police and thrown in jail so after or this we were going to be handed to the germans in spain but you see i'm here so we had good luck good friends who helped. and the exactly three years after i left my room will we came to the united states by the time i was ninety my good meisner regularly tells visitors to the holocaust museum about her memories and experiences this is one of the most

visited museums in the u.s. capitol many people come specially to hear the sorry survivors have to tell that her generation is quickly vanishing this current of industrialization of death has never happened in the press so this is one of the reasons why one should not forget that and more than and the thing else were untrue. these errors from rip being repeated. to margaret meissner these issues have gained a new sense of urgency in today's highly volatile political climate. certainly some of. the moves of the american government right now this very similar to what happened in germany in the month in twenty since the nineteenth and trying not to be

a bust the. market is determined to remain active as long as she can. she splits her story into book so that people in the world can read it and that future generations are aware of this part of history. and you can learn more about holocaust remembrance day and about rising anti semitism here in germany on our website that includes the story of oscar a teenager living in berlin who was bullied and attacked by its classmates being jewish you can see the film at one g m t here on news or whenever you want on our website at steve w. dot com. moving on now to a bit of sports news in tennis caroline wozniacki has been crowned the women's australian open champion after defeating simona halep in melbourne the dane lead after a nail biting first set went all the way to

a time break before hall of true level was an iraqi held her nerve to claim the final set and her first ever grand slam title seven six three six six four in the final score roger federer faces martin chelates in the men's final on sunday. bennis is getting a head start on this year's carnival season the italian lagoon city kicked off its calendar of events with a water parade along one of its main canals a full week ahead of the official opening the theme of this year's carnival festivities well you guessed it the circus hundreds of thousands of tourists are expected to flock to the coral stronghold famous for its masquerade ball. and don't worry soccer nuts we haven't forgotten about the bun display guess that herman will be up after the break with all of the action from saturday's games here's a sneak peek a league leaders byron took on hoffenheim a side they haven't beaten in two years stay tune to find out what happened spoiler

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