30 years later he looks back on the. storage december 19th w. w news live from berlin france's paralyzed by one of its biggest nationwide strikes in decades public sector workers closed down transport hospitals and schools in a protest against proposed pension reforms the strike isn't over yet so what's will happen today we'll get the latest from paps also coming up. germany's chancellor

merkel visits the site of one of history's most shocking crimes it's the 1st time she's been to the death trap of the nazis murders more than a 1000000 people most of them choose. welcome to the program france is bracing for more disruption as the country's largest strike in decades enters its 2nd day public sector workers joint mass rallies across the country on thursday protesting against president obama plans to reform the pension system public transport schools and hospitals were seriously disrupted each union is deciding how long to keep its members out on strike but further protests are suspected on friday and of the days ahead.

exhibit very loud very angry and united in their opposition to the policies of french president emanuel marcal. some cities saw heavy clashes between protesters and security forces in paris small groups of masked activists smashed store windows set fires and hurled flares. in the earlier in the day one of france's largest mobilizations in decades looked a bit different thousands came to protest pension reforms or a strikers say for the rights of future generations. their pension as you can already barely afford to eat. who don't have enough to make ends meet and this reform will make things worse all the independent mission by my free time myself in 10 years time and i'm not sure i'll be able to survive on what my car is proposing it's not simple. the protests shut down public schools nationwide subway stations across paris were closed and 9 out of 10 high speed trains were canceled many of

the capital's most famous tourist attractions was shot leaving tourists frustrated but strike supporters say the measures are necessary due to the frustration they feel with the french government. they keep it off that is it going to she says i want to say honey it's always the one class who pay the price yes because an acceptable that's a fact if there's money out there the people in power that capitalists have to pay they know how to find money for not make deals it is they've turned the world upside down and they want us to pay but we don't agree with that you went on in the political trade unions called a strike over the government's pension plans many fear the proposals will increase their work time and reduce their pensions polls have seen high public support for the strike so far. there are several forces united for this it's really big there are a students nurses firemen doctors lawyers and yellow vests like me. as usual.

you knew and say they might extend the strike as far as monday. go to deduct your correspondent lisa lewis who is the guardian or in paris usually one of the city's busiest railway stations there's a how has the strike been affecting people today. well yesterday many people say time because they knew that the strike would happen now they want to go back to work so what we're seeing you know the transport sector is still at a standstill largely with very few trains running and local transport especially here in paris the metro at a standstill as well so people are taking their casts and their 300 kilometers earth traffic jam at this time of speaking actually in that's almost double as much as you'd normally have on a day on a week day here in paris so it looks like people are really struggling to go to work and it's having a huge impact that strike here in france. in our report earlier we heard that

people are concerned about their future pensions all these war is justified. while they are worried that their pensions might actually go down by a few 100 years and that. would be a large impact for many people especially those who are struggling to make ends meet and those who are benefiting from a special regime one of these $42.00 especially regimes in france which for example mean that your pension is calculated according to what you earning at the end of your career not at the beginning the it is the 1st salary a getting is really low so many people our age yes and many people don't have very high pensions although lots of french people understand that something needs to change when it comes to the pension system they're not quite sure though that they will not lose out largely with what the president is putting on the table. and speaking about president markov how has he reacted to the strike so far. all we

understand that the government is thinking about what they could actually modify you know they they thinking about how to negotiate with the unions the one thing that they would don't want to touch is the fact the very fact the centerpiece of the reform that fusion of the 42 different systems into one but they could talk about maybe pushing the foam room back a bit or making sure the transition is smooth 2 or bringing in the unions to manage the future system all these things could be modified and the government is hoping to bring more people on board and to push through this reform eventually it's over can we expect for the weekend or indeed next. transport unions have already announced that they would continue the strike specially ham paris the r a t p that's running the metro system they will continue at least until monday also we're seeing that very very few trains are running for now there is no other demonstration day announced but if the government doesn't actually given in to

protesters demand they could expect that there might be more demonstrations coming obviously this saturday there is the yellow vests demonstration day as every saturday since the year of that which has been the case for a year they say so there might be more clashes coming tomorrow there is a loser in paris thank you. and now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world in india for men a huge of raping and killing a 27 year old woman have been shot dead by police police say the men were shot as they try to escape custody burns body of their alleged victim was found last week the case has sparked nationwide protests. huge fires bearing down on australia's largest cities sydney. authorities say the blaze formed out of a series of bush fires and is burning out of control north as city climate change is being blamed for the fires that have been raging for months now. i'm

a change activist caret outearn burke has arrived in the spanish capital to attend the un climate change conference the 16 year old reached europe on tuesday after a 3 week contemn run journey across the atlantic she will later take part in a larger fridays for future march. germany's chancellor angela merkel is about to make her 1st visit to the auschwitz birkenau memorial in poland which was the nazis largest death camp during the 2nd world war it's a visit of great political significance to the views thomas sparrow's there to follow it for us tell us what makes this visit so symbolic tom's. you already mentioned one of the elements why this is so important this is the 1st time that i'm going to michael in her 14 years in power comes to auschwitz and an additional that i meant is that she's only the 3rd chancellor to come to auschwitz

$977.00 which it was the 1st one and then headed would call came twice in $199095.00 so it's been nearly 25 years since the german chancellor came here to auschwitz birkenau i'm going to michael is about to arrive any minute now or she will 1st walk through the infamous gate at the entrance of auschwitz birkenau she will host a visit to the auschwitz birkenau museum and she will later hold a speech which is expected to reveal also why she's here one of the elements why she's here is that she already announced that germany both the federal and the regional governments will be donating 60000000 euros to the auschwitz foundation so that's one of the key elements why angry merkel is here and why this visit is also so important auschwitz birkenau is of course a testament to the horrors of the past and also a major tourist attraction today and as our next report shows there are efforts underway to conserve decides. what sets you free the nazis

notorious slogan looms above the entrance to the auschwitz memorial. horus were committed here. now it has become an important tourist destination for visitors from around the well it's over the past 10 years visited numbers have doubled more than 2000000 people now visit auschwitz every year. it's very moving through hard not to cry and we fear on t.v. on freedom's many many times by the 1st time that you see in the 1st time in person that's pretty reset itself is really important like a place is giving greek people kind of impression about what happened what people went through and so on but i think that we are paying too much attention to the buildings to the place itself to the general names of things they've gotten too small attention to what was really important so where it all came from. the memorial site is set to add new exhibition rooms to accommodate all the visitors

have a civic he says the unending stream of guests says posed a real challenge the numbers of visitors that we are getting are already overwhelming this is a lot just to clean difficult operation so we are also planning to build a completely new visitor center that will be slightly at the side of the historical . site of the comp and it will also help us from this very well just a good point of view. even the better december cold doesn't stop people visiting the barracks in the canal concentration camp. here the nazis murdered more than 1000000 people mostly jews they died 3 man u. tristian disease or in the gas chamber. now the barracks a crumbling but renovation work has started the goal is that they look like the original yes the steady enough to withstand hard winters the task that may take

decades to accomplish. this venue thongs stuff it's important to dismantle the barracks with very careful consideration for the historical location. of the challenges to integrate the necessary thorough honest and precision into the process. we document everything in advance in order to be able to restore the place accurately that's our. precision is also key when it comes to preparing items to go on display in this case conservation material used in the past has to be carefully removed because it's now understood to be damaging the exhibits the goal is not to repair the objects but to preserve them. and you object of these objects reflect the history of auschwitz so there deformation contamination the fact that some objects are not complete at all this is testimony

to what happened here prosecutors. still there are plans to change the exhibition the present one was largely designed in 1958 by survivors who focused on the fate of the victims pictures of the perpetrators were hardly bearable for them but in the future their history will be included as well. when we asked one of the most important educational questions about the story of options which is the question why this is not a story about the victims does a story about people who accepted this ideology chose to join the nazi party cho chose to join the s.s. and day where here and they were working and at the same time they were bringing up their children it's almost 75 years since auschwitz was liberated germany is now providing another 60000000 euros to support the memorial site in an attempt to ensure the horrors of the holocaust and not forgotten. now let's go back to our

correspondent correspondent thomas sparrow who is standing by at the memorial site in auschwitz there head of the german chancellor's visit there thomas you told us earlier on american has been in office for 14 years why is she making a 1st trip to auschwitz only now. the government says that i'm going to mco has already visited other sites and that this is also a responsibility that goes beyond the german chancellor so job and president's job and foreign ministers have also been to auschwitz and the official reason why i'm going to call is here to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the auschwitz foundation which is it which has the responsibility to also deal with the funds to repay and to maintain this site with the. all correspondence from a sparrow at the memorial site of auschwitz i'll thank you thomas. you're watching news up next documentary series dr phil looks at the selfie generation

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