bialik asked trying. to get a bit of. this is news live from. the german bunds talks honors the victims of the nazi regime. in a ceremony featuring music banned by the nazis lawmakers heard an emotional keynote

address from a holocaust survivor and his story and friedlander he warned against surgeons of anti semitism and asks germans to remain vigilant. also coming up america's midwest is in the grip of a deadly deep freeze with temperatures colder than antarctica our reporter is in chicago where daily life has ground to a halt and waving flags and calling for free elections venezuelans take to the streets and tell president nicolas maduro it is time to go they want the country's armed forces to back his rival the interim president. plus five years after the launch of the clean india campaign it is. welcome to the program in a ceremony marking the seventy fourth anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp. germany's parliament has commemorated the victims of

the nazi regime the nazis murdered an estimated six million jews as well as hundreds of thousands of sinti and roma disabled people and homosexuals over a million people were killed in auschwitz alone well thanks i've led the president of the wonder spot tog and the holocaust survivor and historian saul freelander spoke with lawmakers and with guests. and watching that speech for us was our very own peter craven and i mean really an impactful commemoration that we saw this morning what stood out to you today what sort of its main was was an impressive individual souls friedlander is in the end his double role he's a historian on the one hand has an international reputation of course as a historian of the holocaust and the jews and he talks about the gruesome details of the terrible numbers and of the facts and figures of what happened in the final

solution and what people need and what people didn't know that anyone's holmes who is on the road he's noticed the story and he's a survivor of the same time he told from a very personal details about how he was separated for example from his parents and i think it's nineteen forty two in vision frons he was he then survived the war in a french boarding school but they were then they were taken off to auschwitz and they were murdered and he asked the question what do we thinking we spent those last seconds together looking at each other knowing what was going to be likely going to happen and it was very very moving to contemplate that and especially you know considering the backdrop against which he against which wolfgang schauble was speaking today i mean there's this is really a time of growing concern because anti-semitism is on the rise in europe and that is something that both of them addressed i just want to have a quick listen and then get your reaction there after. it's a shame it is a source of great shame to us that jews are once again thinking about emigrating from germany because they do not feel safe in our country because they are exposed

to hostility even physical attacks because jewish children in schools are bullied and ganged up on but it is not enough to experience a sense of shame. in addition to exerting the full power of the law allow resistance in everyday life is especially needed to smooth against anti semitism racism and discrimination of all kinds. this was. a mistrust one of the plagues that are now creeping into one nation after another. the temptations of authoritarian government spent growing nationalism on the rise everywhere in the world in disturbing ways. so. often for a. small community. and

we can see the lawmakers there sitting listening to what extent is what was just said there on their minds today and this was rising at the summit as a people we saw sitting there right at the front of the area of the parliament where the representatives of the alternative for germany alissa vital and alexander go and were sitting there and this is what immediately comes to mind for very many parliamentarians the fact that it is now represented in the german parliament and in all sixteen regional parliament across the country there going to be three key regional elections this year where he is expected to search so still further and there can be no doubt about it that there have been anti semitic comments from within the ranks of the day in recent times and comments also when it comes to remembering the holocaust. there. many house become one of the strongest bastions against exactly the dangers i just

talked about. we all hope that you retain the moral rectitude to stand for tolerance and inclusion. even out of here on liberty and the future. of the words that you continue to fight for true democracy. and is that what we're hearing from the politicians it's interesting to hear so friedlander talking about germany being a change germany because people as i say concerned about the future there is definitely a rise in anti semitism globally as soul friedlander said around europe and in germany as well in germany very many jewish people say that the vast majority say that that in their personal lives on a day to day basis the number of anti semitic incidents in and attacks indeed has been on the rois there's great concern about that house who address that at this point in time especially know that the whole culture of remembrances is beginning

to change because the generation who can give original personal testimony the generation of the survivors people like so frequent they're beginning to pass away significant numbers and that is a huge concern because how do you how do you go what's the next step in the culture of remember and so after that so what is being done right now in that or to prepare for that peter prepare for the fact that you know the holocaust should never be forgotten. there's a lot of talk about addressing young people and their concerns but there's been a survey recently this suggested that as many as forty percent of young germans have practically no idea about what the holocaust stands for what really happened and how would you address those young people it's been tried germany has tried very very hard indeed and in praised by israel and israelis and jewish commentators for this. addressing the very very darkest chapters of its history in this. pools and in exchange visits taking young children to concentration camps but it all has to be done the there's

a whole science this about how you it's not just taking young children to concentration camps it's making itself lowing them to think and think for themselves and develop their own response to the challenges posed by these great crimes to really feel it exactly that in their craven from data being instinct so much for joining us. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world last ditch talks between the united states and russia to save a key arms control treaty have failed the u.s. accuses russia of breaching the i.n.f. treaty to intermediate range missiles now washington has warned that it will begin withdrawing from the treaty unless russia destroys a ground based missile system. these days a team. of eight russian environmental activists have been detained in the city of . one hundred kilometers south east of moscow the activists are protesting against moscow's garbage policy all of the russian capital's waste goes to landfills

authorities are accusing the protesters of stirring up mass riots. malaysia has a new pig sultan of villa has ascended to the throne of the south east asian country nearly a month after his predecessor surprised abdication in the is also a prominent figure in sports federations including the council of fifa world governing body. already is are turning to drones as their latest weapon in the fight against smog in bangkok whole fleet of the miniature aircraft will be spraying treated water in a bid to help clear the air the thai capital has been shrouded in dense haze for weeks widespread fears over public health. and in china tens of thousands have begun flooding out of the capital beijing as the lunar new year holiday approaches at its height the pre-holiday travel rush is considered the

world's biggest annual human migration encompassing tens of millions of people across china and east asia this year's lunar new year holiday on february fourth. well as many as twelve people have died as a result of a deep freeze that is gripping the american midwest weather. a colder than an article has grounded flights crippled infrastructure and brought life to a standstill for tens of millions of people the polar vortex is a mass of freezing air that normally spins around the north pole in winter but has southwards into the united states. chicago the windy city no stranger to wicked winter weather but this week's lows haven't been this brutal in decades breathing can be painful even dangerous and that's not only the case in america's third largest city six u.s. states have recorded temperatures colder than antarctica weather stations across large parts of canada and the u.s.

have registered temperatures at minus thirty degrees celsius or more factor in the wind chill and it's more than minus fifty the culprit for the cold chaos a massive subzero air called a polar vortex so named because it normally stays put around the north pole but this week it's humble people further south. this is think though this of ever see that i've got about three different layers on top and bottom right now so as prepared as they can be. and then when it comes there should be this is a good herbert issue with both. everyone needs to get prepared to watch your strawman too and that means that the to get to illustrate the effects of extreme cold a chicago based reporter threw a couple of boiled water in the air. the water froze almost instantly and fell back down as snow. temperatures this far below freezing can also have drastic effects on people the homeless are at particular risk cities across the midwest have opened

warming centers including police stations and roving buses for anyone seeking shelter from the cold the bone chilling weather has caused more than two thousand flight cancellations school and office closures transit delays and multi-car pileups on slippery roads even the u.s. postal service whose unofficial motto takes pride in all weather work has halted mail delivery in many places the polar vortex looks to be lingering through the rest of the week only then might release millions of people from its icy embrace. and has ventured out on to the chilly streets of chicago and she sent us this update this is one of the most populous cities in the country and there's barely a soul on the street the ones that we have run into have been warmly advising us to seek shelter as soon as possible it's so cold that exposed skin could frostbite immediately and your hair and even your eyeballs could freeze the chicago river which is a massive body of water right next to me is completely frozen over the coal has

also worked at the city's train tracks forcing officials to light the tracks on fire in order to keep public transit running polevoy to see it happen every year but even for the windy city this is extreme. you're watching news still to come it has been called the biggest toilet building spree in the world but after five years is the indian government actually fulfilling its promise to install millions of working toilets. that's coming up a bit later but first. a self-proclaimed interim president has revealed the country's political opposition has been meeting secretly with the venezuelan military is trying to convince officers to turn their backs on president nicolas maduro that says madugalle himself was film together with soldiers in the capital. the army is considered key to propping up the hold on power that's why the two rivals have been competing for its loyalty but you know the people across have been

demanding that step down they called on the armed forces to abandon the president and to allow humanitarian aid into the country. they can't take away our right to protest these fantasies wayland's and the capital caracas chant they're referring to the government of president nicolas maduro. in tory is one of the protesters she's the wife of a prominent opposition leader who has been in jail for four years she told you it was time for a new government come up. the british. and her critics this is why we are here we wait this can't work everybody together party. in tory and many of these protesters are supporting pawn quite old who proclaimed himself interim president last week the country's chief prosecutor has opened an investigation into his challenge for power. not

underestimating the threat of jail and i don't want it to be understood like that very responsibly i say there is nothing new coming from a regime that doesn't answer to the venezuelan people's needs their only response is repression and persecution venezuelan authorities are accusing him of helping foreign countries such as the u.s. to interfere in internal matters washington recognizes quite owes claim to read from this whaler on wednesday president donald trump phoned him to reiterate his support. for his past president mature wrote try to convince americans that intervention would backfire on the. i call upon your conscience a color palm your solidarity be aware of the truth we must not allow a second vietnam to happen this time in latin america if the u.s. intervenes it will be worse for them than vietnam. according to a russian news agency much europe has offered to negotiate with the opposition in

an attempt to regain supposed to mass to clean. the talks i'm not what these protesters swarmed. by the time i was. there to mont is kind. must go. and one white house has also asked you governments to keep up the pressure on the dodo that's has the blocks foreign ministers meet in romania today and our european affairs correspondent barbara faisal has the very latest in this stately building of the rumanian national bank e.u. foreign ministers are meeting to talk strategy top of the agenda of course venezuela they want to reaffirm their ultimatum against president maduro if he does not permit free fair and supervised elections with an american neighbors in order to

have a light for future talks and finally sanctions will be on the agenda but whether there will be a majority to increase those and shopping them is not clear. now e.u. member states want to ease u.s. sanctions against iran so germany france and britain created instax a payment channel that will allow european companies to make legitimate transactions with iran the instrument will facilitate trade between the e.u. and iran as ordinary banks would be at risk the penalties due to sanctions at first food medicine medical products from europe they will all be exchanged through instead this will let europe bulk certain bent u.s. sanctions and uphold the nuclear treaty with iran no other e.u. member states will be able to join the alliance as well. it's going to. be a business so how exactly is this scheme supposed to function aaron well basically the insect system will allow european companies to do trade with iran by said it

kind of a triangular trade system basically iran will be able to sell oil in other products to european companies and the money that they would actually be earning from there will be transferred directly to iran instead will be held in escrow by the. group and then if iran orders products from european companies instead of transferring that money from iran directly this in six ripple pay those european companies where their products and then they'll send them to iran basically it allows them to circumvent the u.s. sanctions that were recently put back and it was going to be interesting to see how the united states indeed response to all of this because i mean now they know that they're trying to circumvent them but ultimately you know the founding nations what are they hoping to achieve here well i mean basically. it is a message sent directly to donald trump and washington i mean the european powers have made no secret of it that they don't support the unilateral reintroduction of sanctions that we saw earlier in the trump administration they're trying to send a message to tehran to run saying look you know we've got your back we're standing

on your side when it comes to this issue because at the end of the day we're only really talking about rather small amounts of products that can be sent back this is only really targeting i recall jewel goods and medicine this is. isn't the type of thing that could turn around the iranian economy right now so more than anything else this is a message directed both tehran you know that they want to support them and also at washington saying that they don't support the current policy the top administration fascinating stuff it's in its infancy so we'll see how it develops and thank you. over suspending its ride sharing service in barcelona after local authorities tightened restrictions the catalan government decided that another online right handling services can only pick up passengers after a delay of these fifteen minutes from the time of being booked the new law came after pressure from taxi drivers who have held many strikes in spain just a few days ago in the capital madrid they blocked the main roads taxi drivers also

blocked many highways and clashed with police. on out is being called the biggest toilet building spree in the world back in twenty fourteen indian prime minister narendra modi launched his clean india campaign that aim was to eliminate the widespread practice of people relieving themselves in the open in the countryside now five years later is the program working well our india correspondent sonia folly car visits a few villages in the northern state of to pradesh to find out. it's a must do it with the british. have a duty secret. has never had a toy that. she has to walk more than a kilometer every day to relieve. the ritual with indignities and this. next night we have to carry a torch and the stick i come here with other women and young children we stand

watch first because the children get scared there are wild animals in the fields sometimes there are men around it is scary it's safer to come in a group. these experience is a chop odds with the government's much touted campaign to eliminate often difficult . signs warn of the health risks associated with the practice and urged people to use toilets. so i thailand he pushed the clean india effort has even roped in bollywood stars to spread the message board the government offers twelve thousand that's about one hundred fifty euros worth of your house so it's only in villages or jell-o. . as part of the clean india campaign the government claims if the building hundreds of millions of toilets it says it is completely eliminated open defecation in most indian states but in the villages be visited and with that with that with

far from being the case. in one village the toilets stand half baked many residency they haven't received the food subsidy the facilities here are missing roofs and seeds and are very obviously not unused. for this as we dismantle the toilets being built on too flimsy and wouldn't last long but there are allegations of caution to. me that the government did give the money for a start at a price. the head of the village told us if we don't get toilets made we will get subsidized food grain those are orders from the modi government we are poor people we really depend on the food handouts so i decided to build the toilet. it's. back at the displays another irregularity emerges. the clean india website declares hope ilitch to be free of often difficult with two hundred thirty four

toilets installed but that doesn't add up and i doubt there are just about four or five people in our village who have toilets you can check yourself how can the government say all of us have toilets that's just wrong there is collusion among the officials no one has ever come here to check. the story details on new for research and as a college he's visited about eighty villages across the state for much cited study on the campaigns and the corruption story is every bit you saw for yourself right don't look to don't exist it's just on the paper the official degrees my me unless they get out for themselves. that is something really serious. runs the campion to put each he says the ghost story that income of these village definitely need investigation but he insists it's an isolated case it is very serious and we are very very very big restrict actions if somebody is phone to

give false information or. what i think there's no money should not be very large and the picture which i'm going to do this open division almost has come down. with us and. as. she stood waiting for her promised toilet. they said there and i think she's already marked a place for it in front of parole. one other has been a breakthrough in the search for the footballer in million osama the argentine player whose plane went missing just as he was about to start playing in the english premier league investigators have found two seat cushions that they believed to be from the plane and say that they will begin searching underwater off the northern french coast players and fans of cardiff city who had just signed him paid tribute to sala a fair game against arsenal the welsh club paid

a record transfer fee to the french side. just days before he went missing. one of the super bowl of american football is set for this sunday with the team's los angeles and boston set to play in one of the biggest spectacles in sports it is also time for the national football league to talk about international expansion and at this time of year and fans in europe wait to hear about a possible n.f.l. team relocating to london the league stages three games a year where at wembley stadium and next season there will be four but as for london based teams in the n.f.l. don't hold your breath they have shown passion. they have. shown the same type of knowledge and interest in our game that we we experience right here in the united states i think the issue for still is can we do this competitively for

the team that is based in london but also for the other thirty one clubs. that involve scheduling involves a lot of other matters that you don't want to compromise to we can get comfortable with that i don't think will be necessarily n.f.l. ready in london. quick reminder now the top stories we're following for you here at w. german lawmakers have held a commemoration ceremony to honor the victims of the nazi regime in his keynote address holocaust survivor survivor and historian self friedlander warned against a resurgence of anti semitism and said that he hoped that germany would continue to stand up against intolerance. you're watching t w news live from berlin coming up after a short break focus on europe this week of the spotlight is on people power in countries across the continent but more coming up in just

a few minutes i'm sorry kelly and her lead thank you so much for joining us have a great day. on the flop to. be.

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start to keep. a low and a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and we begin in the italian capital rome where people are quite simply furious why well because the city is drowning in rubbish rome's trash collectors are supposed to remove five thousand tons of rubbish each day but why should they take it unfortunately for the time.