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world leaders are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp the german president warns that the evils of the nazi era are still with us and says the world must stand united against anti semitism and detroit. also on the show a growing alarm a city of a leaven 1000000 people on lockdown chinese authorities try to quarantine bruhaha the metropolis at the very center of the colon a virus outbreak and with it work. trying to contain a city of 11000000 people. is. like you so much for joining us we continue our coverage of ceremonies at the yad vashem. memorial in jerusalem daughter holocaust victims and survivors all this is

the 1st in a series of events marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp which is commemorated as international holocaust remembrance day 6000000 jews were killed in the genocide dozens of international has of state and government joined israeli leaders at the ceremony they gather to remember one of the world's darkest chapters and vowed to fight anti semitism in their countries in the 1st speech by a german president at yad vashem i got to steinmeyer subject to his responsibility for the crimes of the nazi regime will not expire let's take a listen now to what president steinmeyer said 75 years later. after the liberation of auschwitz i stand before you all as president of germany and i stand here laden with the heavy historic good burden of guilt

yet at the same time. my heart is filled with gratitude gratitude for the hands of the survivors stretch out to us credit you had for the new trust given to us by people in israel. and across the world gratitude for jews knife does flow throw to sing again in germany. my soul is moved by this spirit of reconciliation a spirit which opened up a new and peaceful path for jim in the end this will. for jim and the euro and the countries of the world. the president there speaking moments ago in jerusalem now i'm joined by our correspondent tanya kramer she was earlier after the ceremony at

yad vashem and she joins us now it's a very moving speech by a german present or. it's the 1st time that a german leader has given an address how has this speech been received where you are. well i think it was small the well received commentators here and in the israeli media described it as a very emotional speech they also appreciated that he acknowledged the german role in world war 2 during the holocaust that he spoke somehow from his heart that he also started this speech to spray all the plus thing and he thing it's good for him to be yeah i mean it was something very special for him to be here the 1st time that a german president could speak in such a ceremony. so he had to make the balance in his speech between commemorating what had happened in the past what it happened to the victims here during the holocaust

but also addressing what is happening in today's also in germany. with the attack in holland for example and rising and to semitism. people here think i think i've received this speech quite well it's not tiny i mean you. want to pick up where you ended with because of course the holocaust commemoration comes sadly at a time when acts of anti semitic violence have taken place in many parts of the world germany included as you just alluded to how has that been addressed in the speeches today. but i think this was one of the main themes of this world holocaust for. that was one of the hosts together with the other sam and israeli president for this very special event today in jerusalem on the one hand of course it was about a commemorating. the liberation of auschwitz 75 years ago but on the other hand

also addressing the rising until semitism and i think this is what was expected also from all the speakers here and all of them of course mentioned the current problems all over the world with regard to discrimination to racism to i'm to semitism and also talk to some of the holocaust survivors in the past weeks or so and they were saying it's very important that the speakers here address this because they went through all the horror and they don't want to see that this is repeated again. just a correspondent time kramer thank you as always. dr kraus was a teenager when she was deported from prague and ended up in our streets now mind you wanted to spoke to do daily news at her home in israel where leaders will be at the former death camp for the official holocaust remembrance day on monday but for

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orders but around things they knew that time will come in june we had 6 months grace to live between you we knew we knew we are going to die and you and everybody knew that i won't ever go in there it's i can't bear it that the. hundreds and thousands of people go and that they're on the ashes and she's out or over all over the. place their steps in knowing the dead people. to to cross sharing her story which is going on as i know about some of the other stories making news around the world that the german government has banned a neo nazi group calling itself combat the ban comes after a surge of far right violence including the murder of all to look at a conservative progress each politician in the city of castles and

a deadly attack on a synagogue in the city hala. german chancellor angela merkel told the world economic forum in davos that societies will have to transform to stand global warming while chancellor merkel said our way of life and how we do business must change over the next 3 decades a message student stark contrast to that of u.s. president donald trump. china has confirmed the 1st death from the corona virus corona virus rather outside the city of one that is the epicenter of the virus outbreak health officials say an 80 year old man in the province of haiti has died from the disease authorities have been scrambling to prevent the virus from spreading out from all harm but cases have been confirmed now throughout asia and beyond all transport in and out of the city has been suspended other cities have also been affected in the city of huang gang and as you public transport entry

services are shut down overall more than 18000000 people have been affected by the lockdown it is a difficult time to try to quarantine a city because millions of people are on the move to celebrate the chinese new year beijing has nixed plans for all large scale chinese lunar new year festivities as the virus continues to spread. this is where it all began authorities believe the outbreak of the corona virus can be traced back to a seafood market in one. but shutters have now come down and the city has followed suit. assault thursday morning the city has been cut off from the rest of the country trains flights buses and ferries have been cancelled even public transport within will on has ground to a halt. hospital wards have had to deal with hundreds of cases but so far the world health organization has refrained from declaring

a global health emergency much depends on whether the measures set in place by the chinese government will prove effective. trying to contain a city. of 11000000 people is new to science it has not been tried before as a public health measure so we cannot at this stage say it will order it would not work. with the city sealed off from the outside world if you headed to the epicenter of the outbreak. the last trains bell for 100 were unusually empty. and there's plenty of elbow room for passengers on the final flights into the city. some fear repeat of the deadly outbreak of the sars virus which killed over 800 people in 2003. i think that is i'm really worried i'm really scared it will become the next ours that's why we all

wear masks. others are less concerned. as a city often 11000000 people. just about 200 have been infected that's a very low percentage and the fatalities are all old people. all over china people are on the move to visit relatives over the lunar new year holidays it's one of the biggest annual movements of people in the world despite the lockdown of 100 it's likely that somewhere the coronavirus is traveling among them. aren't just talks a little bit more about this it's obvious from our science departments in 5 in 1st of all i mean just according to you. city the size of one hot it is a very drastic measure how does that work are people not allowed to leave their homes are there a border controls everywhere i mean how does that look for the people living there yes of course i'm not there but apparently what i have heard is that basically the

trains and the track the trains and buses are all shut down people are still moving around the city but they don't go to markets that much they basically stay indoors all the ostrow stay indoors and people go out os 2 was east protective masks will this help contain the spread of those. it will certainly help if people can't leave the cities of people i'm traveling so much with you have to consider that you know new years we had to evolve it so people would usually travel a lot they would infect much more now as this is probably one of the most effective ways of preventing that by containing it in a city but we have to be aware as it is this is a city of 11000000 people 3 more cities in the same province have already been also shut down in the same way or basically been isolated now this is a very tough and decisive response by the chinese also rotis and the w.h.o. has also acknowledged it so we will have to see if the w.h.

also today which they are discussing right now at this moment will declare an international health emergency or not considering that the chinese also routines are doing what they're doing this may be a decision that comes later or later point. for you. and i'm going to hand you over now to. business with my colleague 1st and at the top of the hour for the world headlines for now. the literature invites us to see people in particular. find the strength. to perform before. you go there you go on you to.