yes we are starting to play as we want you. to reach the truck an exclusive report starts nov seventeenth on g.w. . i've. read. this is g.w. news live from berlin remembering the past to avoid repeating it in the future global leaders attend a peace forum in paris hosted by french president emmanuel mccall german chancellor angela merkel warns that the world can't take pieces for granted it will bring you the latest. marking one hundred years since the end of world war one more than

sixty world leaders attended a ceremony in paris to mark a century since the guns fell silent in the great war the bloody conflict that claimed millions of lives. california is wildfires grow bored deadly by the day search teams combing through the remains of the town of paradise have found more bodies at least twenty three people have died in the north of the stick. i'm calling osman in berlin thanks for joining us french president emanuel mccrone is hosting a global peace forum in paris following this morning's world war one armistice commemorations the event aims to highlight the importance of international institutions in preventing and solving global conflicts german chancellor angela merkel russian president vladimir putin and scores of other world leaders are taking part u.s. president donald trump is not among them. chancellor merkel addressed the forum as

the first speaker let's listen to some what she had to say about the peace we have today and that we accept. as something natural is not natural in any way but we have to keep defending it. in the hood because and let me share my thoughts with you today on this day of commemoration you know not tonight i am i cannot consent that i go back there to imply nationalism and think that i think that we might begin in way act in ways i thought you know as if we could just ignore our into. just a bit of chancellor merkel's speech them joined now in the studio by our colleague simon young from politics department you got to hear a bit of chancellor merkel's speech there what was her message to open this peace conference yeah i think she was denouncing the sort of nationalism a militarism of course that characterized the first world war and brought nations

to war there in and saying that we need to learn the lesson of peace essentially from that simple message but of course. the the details of how you create peace they're more difficult and she was saying that you know isolationism cannot be the answer it was in the arts or in one nine hundred eighteen and it can't be now and indeed saying also that you know a failure to communicate between nations. can have fatal consequences so i think possibly pointing there towards you know the lack of communication coming from washington at least today yeah exactly many would say europe now far from united i mean how receptive will the leaders be there to that message. well i think there is a union for peace and you know this is quite a clever move of president mccrone of france to gather we're told more than eighty

worldly he does for this commemoration in paris and then immediately to offer them a completely separate event where they can actually get down to some political negotiating and move towards that i mean we know the conflicts the conflicts around ukraine syria yemen just to name but three and there are there are many others but the leaders are also talking about preventing conflicts before they've even before it comes to sort of military hostilities addressing issues like poverty hunger and disease these are the drivers of conflict and so it's a it's a big an ambitious agenda that this peace for him has taken on but of course those who are there will be looking for ways that they can contribute you mentioned some eighty leaders are there of course one big leader is not u.s. president donald trump opting not to attend the formal though he is in paris what

kind of message is he sending is this more of the america first policy from president trump. yeah i mean it looks strange to me that the president having having made the journey to paris. has decided to get on his plane and fly back to washington immediately without least showing that he supports the motives of peace you know i mean i seem to be the case i think it's just that he's decided to stay away from this particular forum bax he's of the view that you know if he's not the one giving the giving the keynote speech and perhaps it would have been under the circumstances of. then he doesn't want to be sitting there listening to other world leaders advise ing him what's the best way to move towards peace i don't know but it does look strange and i think it just shows another way in which president trump is so out of step with other nations. thank you very much or europe has been

marking one hundred years since fighting stopped on the battlefields of world war one earlier today in paris those heads of state from around the world gathered for a somber ceremony around nine million soldiers and millions more civilians lost their lives in that for your conflict. more than sixty willed leaders gathered. in paris running late they missed the exact moment when one hundred years earlier at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month the guns finally fell silent but the message was clear never again given extra resonance by the location the tomb of the unknown soldier a silent symbol of the sacrifice of the millions killed in conflict. with the weather in paris perhaps appropriately whitten gray french prisoners among the commemorations he spoke of the day significance and the tragedy of war.

the city on this very day the french and their allies celebrated their victory. they had fought for their homeland and their freedom and for this they had made huge sacrifices and suffered untold hardships they had suffered a hell a hell no one can imagine. this is all coaching there were readings from the time of the armistice drawing on the first world was distinguished literary and poetic tradition words read by one of today's young students recalling the day a century ago when the great war ended seem. a good idea. to mark. the act the war is over in iraq and in an hour we will leave. we will never have to come back here

and from the french president a determination to build for the future. at this you're known as a spa or you let us build our hopes brother than our fears against each other. you provoke them and together we can avert threats like the specter of global warming poverty hunger disease inequality and ignorance. that we have engaged in this fight and we can win it let us pursue it for victory is possible to live a quiet perceivable. fought over in the first and light of the second world war the french capital paris playing host to own the enemies today together and reconciled . our chief europe correspondent mike often was at that event at the austin two also this morning. europe remembered one of its defining days this morning tell us

what that all moment with wanting to. learn was not at all a military event as some might have expected the very pacifist there were a lot of children involved schoolchildren that we just saw on the report there was a lot of music in there for the strongest moments of the ceremony came from from those sources and what really stood out was for example the bull arrow performance from the european union youth orchestra extremely passionate and that was the closest to really rousing people and very very fitting because it's composer police ravin himself took part in world war one it seemed to convey really the spirit of this event and of course it's always something special when you have so many has a state and government all together in one place really wasn't present during those images you know for france the victory in the first world war was a better one the country suffered heavy losses thankfully leading then a few decades later too with capitulation nazi germany in one thousand forty how

are the french in particular remembering this day. you know president mike kroll really tried to well this commemoration he's been on a weeklong tour through friends with mixed results but here sunday in paris he definitely managed to put his stamp on the ceremony he was stressing that the world possibly was at a turning point he was condemning nationalism promoting multilateralism and all that while a presidents like donald trump invited me a poutine looked on who have a different stand of course on these things so he used what the french call the gone to air the great war to try to connect it with a message for the present and the future. w.'s chief europe correspondent max often in paris thank you very much now to learn more about this weekend's

and tenor head tour website www dot com for a special series delving into the history of what was then called the war to end all wars. in history shows the story of the first world war two different perspectives by peter green from the eastern european perspective from the african perspective from the perspective of the arab world. t w dot com slash w w one. now in poland today's date has even more significance nov eleventh marks the hundredth anniversary of the country's independence but polish leaders are split today due to plans for a controversial far right march european council head and former polish prime minister donald tusk greeted crowds in warsaw and said that what unites poland is stronger than what divides it earlier president and g dude i presided over a state ceremony paying tribute to a leader of the country's bid for independence double later joined nationalist

groups on a march to the capital. a wildfire in northern california has now left at least twenty three people dead according to state authorities more than thirty people are reported missing in what is being called the most destructive blaze in california's history separate fires in the southern part of the state are also raging forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in addition to containing the flames firefighters now have the grim task of recovering the remains of those who were unable to escape. this smoldering remains of a town ten to ash thousands of buildings in paradise northern california bunch to the ground. lives lost some in the very big hills in which they were trying to escape. there were people literally burning in their cars running down the street abandon me. vehicles. dying on the road.

it was just. it was just utter panic. this satellite image of the area around paradise shows just how devastating the raging inferno has been. much time. read. through a couple things in it but didn't have time to get a variable in southern california thousand oaks is a city still reeling from wednesday night's match shooting because of the wildfires that emergency services continue to work around the clock i know that some firefighters from various agencies including our fire department interact county have slept in the streets overnight to keep an eye on fires embers making sure that there are no additional homes burning or any other property to happen

home growing efforts we are forever grateful. in nearby malibu only the super rich can afford these luxury homes but no amount of money could save these mansions from the for roche's flames that engulfed them even celebrities like lady gaga and kim kardashian have been forced to evacuate. what continues to dampen down these fires but with more strong winds expected over the coming days the worst may not yet be over. and just a reminder of the top stories we're following for you right now global leaders are attending a peace forum in paris by french president manual event aims to highlight the importance of international institutions in preventing and solving global conflicts german chancellor angela merkel told leaders that the world can't take peace for granted. and earlier more than sixty world leaders attended the ceremony in paris

to mark one hundred years since the end of the first world war they gathered at the tomb of the unknown soldier. at the base of the op to triomphe france was at the epicenter of the world's first global conflict. you're watching t.v. news live from berlin stay tuned we have more at the top of the hour and you can check out our website or follow us on twitter thanks for joining us. from the food. industry show the story of the first movement or told from different perspectives by peter craig from the eastern european perspective from the african perspective from the perspective of turkey from the arab world. d.w. to come slash w w morning. i was here when i arrived here i slept

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