who stayed behind it's a boy my husband went to peru because of the crisis. if he hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger alabama sentimental and down a. just this week trying to. soviet soldiers liberated the auschwitz nazi death camp 75 years ago they described passing through this gate as walking from earth into hell into the holocaust as the world begins commemorating the somber anniversary the politics of memory are getting in the way tonight we ask if those before us experienced a shared past why can't we agree on the past we remember i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day.

for. us all to the symbol of the industrial minus the murder of 6000000 jews the worst crime in the history of humanity it is certainly that it was committed. by my countrymen what we remember here today can never happen again hatred and intolerance still live in the human columns and i wish. i could say that we germans have learned from history one sense for all to see the anti semitism is reappearing violent. brutal it is here but it cannot say that. when the hatred is spreading. also coming up tonight the paris climate

agreement is a blueprint for a world serious about preventing a climate change catastrophe it was of that world that the german chancellor addressed today. the question of achieving the goals of the paris agreement could be a question of survival for the whole planet which is why we need to act. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day remembering when one of humanity's most inhumane chapters began to end it was 75 years ago when soldiers of the soviet red army arrived at the ritz concentration camp in nazi occupied poland now those soldiers arrived thinking that the camp would be the next point of conquest as they battled their way towards berlin but once they entered the front gates at auschwitz they became liberators at a crime scene the whites of which humanity had never seen or today the world began

commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz with an event today in israel another next monday in poland today speeches were solemn and sober but also politically charged national agendas did not yield that today as the souls of more than 6000000 murdered people were remembered who. knew the holocaust survivor sings the kaddish the mourners prayer. the ceremony was dedicated to jews and other victims of the holocaust leaders spoke of the need to fight today's anti semitism. that current politics and present. i'm concerned. that we have yet to see

a unified and resolute stance against the most you submitted presume on the planet's. i call on all governments to join the vital effort of confronting iran. the u.s. vice president agreed we must also stand strong. against the leading state purveyor of anti semitism. against the one government in the world that denies the holocaust as a matter of state policy and threatens to wipe israel off the map. the world must stand strong against the islamic republic of iran. russian president vladimir putin delivered an offer to world governments to talk about peace. we suggest a meeting of the heads of state and government of p.

5 russia china the us france and britain. it could take place in any country anywhere in the world where counterparts find it convenient. russia is willing to engage in a serious conversation because. you don't get your to. germany's president spoke of responsibility all right just a different dates. the words are not the same. the perpetrators are not the same. but it is the same even. this responsibility or words of ovan into the very fabric. of the federal republic of germany from day one. but it tests us here and now this germany will only live up to itself if it lives up to its historical responsibility. the solemn poses the tool could think lucian

in peace these promises would also not be forgotten said council chairman we appreciate it very much he will promise to fight and they semitism in the region . this is a promise this is a big asian this is a duty of did all. and this really will never forget what you have said here today leaders of do it they would if you knew it. and you hence you know won through a long sentence one signature you can decide the police of people so decide to love and friendship and peace thank you. his was a clear appeal that these promises be kept. for more than what i'm doing here at the big table by stefan lane state he's a professor of holocaust studies in jewish studies at torah college here in berlin

france are going to have you on the show i want to start by just getting your thoughts your opinion on what we call today we're at ya bush in israel and we've got representatives from the allied powers as well as germany speaking. is was that the right way to begin a commemoration of auschwitz 75 years later i think that's that's fair to say because well i mean it's 75 years after the liberation and jimminy is no longer what it was in 1905 there was change there and is really really engaging in to history and. it shows reconsideration and that's what what what happens it happens from the israeli side and i think what jimmy das is really is really recognized as a sincere effort really would you think that was

a main message today when the german president spoke and the message he had to me the message was about reflection it was about learning the lessons of history reconciliation we seeing there in real time the arc of history the successful ability to deal with a dark past and to come to terms with the perpetrator that is in your own history. well i mean. it's always a question of comparison so if you ask me whether germany has done enough to come to terms with its past i would say no but if you are asked me whether this is this is the right way and whether it's more than others do then maybe you could say yes and the question is what can you do i mean in the end germany is a working democracy and i think it's part of chrissy is that we dealt with our pos we did it in a very german way that's that's true but the thing is. it

is a german pos and we have to find a national way and i think we did find a pos you can criticize it and i actually i do criticize it for for for many things but it's not i wouldn't ban it or say that's so that's not a sincere without effort there was one part of the german president's message today which struck us as we were listening i want you to take a listen to what he the president said and i wish. i could say that we germans have learned from history ones for all but i cannot say that. when hatred is spreading. that struck us as being very honest but it also reminded me of any visible holocaust survivor who has. said that it is impossible to represent the holocaust because it was so singular and unique in its

evil that you can't represent i mean that seems so absolute and when i heard the german president today saying that we haven't learned the lessons of history that also sounded absolute because it's not true for everyone everywhere is it. well i mean he to history can teach a lot. i doubt that we all i mean we were ever able to to learn all the lessons and actually we have to find every generation or and actually every individual has to find its own way to learn from history so what we actually can do is provide knowledge and we can do that it's cool's we can do that at memorial sites it's obviously what the historians do. and whether you get the right lessons out of this this is i mean it's almost impossible to say that the lesson you learned today is right lesson for in 5 years. it speaks to the importance also of

teaching children history absolutely perhaps that it. leaders valid today to fight harder against modern day anti-semitism there was a lot of talk about the the new threat to jews here in europe i want you to listen to what was said about the situation for jews in russia dickless and russia. where we find maybe the lowest rates of want to see me do some very uncompromising learn to pull the city to hoods on symmetry. and i'm just imaging incidence treated with mock sim severity therefore practically eliminating under-estimate ism in the public arena. i don't there we heard practically eliminating anti-semitism from the public arena arena in russia is that true i mean is russia

a safer place for jews than western europe i doubt that i mean this to me this sounds a bit like if putin had set that i wouldn't have been surprised what we can say it sounded like a putin message yeah that's the worst thing right i mean you might argue if you're a bit cynical well russia is not a free state so obviously if you're not allowed to to publicly say anti-semitic things then then they don't exist but i think the idea that anti-semitism no longer exists in russia is absurd you know i mean i was shocked when i heard that but as you say with russia we there's not transparency we don't even know if the statistics that we received we don't know with we can't verify them so we don't know if they're true. the politics of memory. and the holocaust talk to me about why why do you think there are 2 main events here we've got the win today that was

a judge a shim and we have one on monday in poland at the site of auschwitz do we need to why. well i think it's fair to have 2 because well one for ones we have israel which is where. most of the holocaust survivors need is and which is the jewish state and then we have the place of the crime itself so yeah that makes sense the question is who is in white it and who is not invited and i find it very strange that for instance the polish president was not allowed to give a speech. and then you know why you know why he said that he's going to boycott he said because the russian president gets to st and he says that putin is pushing revisionist history about the war absolutely no that's that's politics of history and to accuse someone of anti-semitism is probably the the strongest

case you can make to to to out cost someone and to say well you are you're a bad country a rogue state say to speak and that's what putin does with russia he does it with ukraine and its foreign policy but at the same point it's a at the russians because they themselves can claim themselves as as victims so that they a victim izing themselves because the others are so bad and so mean it will be interesting to see what happens on monday the polish president will be there the russian president will not be there on monday professors to fund state with torah college for as we appreciate your insights and helping us put this into context thank you well now a message from a woman who survived the holocaust her name is due to cross she was a teenager when she was deported from prague and sent to auschwitz she is 91 years

old now and she told the w news why she never wants to see our streets in any form on any occasion ever again. and since my. it is just a children's book and here i sit with the books. this is me in the black stockings. my number is 73305 which i had to shout twice daily at the counting. pedal you had to shout over number then septic 1000 that i hunted from the air was full of cash like snow from the from the smoke from the chimneys.

and despair the. from from the chemical you and i. we just had to understand that this is what happens there when their train arrived they were prisoners who sorted luggage 3 major mountains of clothes of shoes of a prude of bread of and if they found a book they somehow managed to bring it to the children's broke. there were some there for 14 books in the book so afraid invented this very be library and you were in charge people being killed in gas chambers and being burned in claremont loria

and the ashes that were in the air they cover their ass they're all. around any of you knew that our time will come in june we had 6 months grace to live which we knew we knew we knew we are going to die and you and everybody knew that. it that they hundreds and thousands of people go and that they're on the. oh. is there that thing on people they don't enjoy but they. are from the past in the politics of memory to the future and the politics of climate change today german chancellor angela merkel one of europe's longest serving and oldest leaders spoke in defense of young people at the world economic

forum in switzerland she told the global business elite to listen to what young climate activists say she warned of a growing rift between the u.c. were doubting their own future and an older generation ignoring the threats of global warming that they will soon leave behind. dodgy doors were not going to stop anglo-american from delivering today's warning to davos this is the 12th time the german chancellor has spoken at the forum but never have the stakes been higher merkel appealed to the world to arjun li make good on the power of climate accords . the question of achieving the goals of the paris agreement could be a question of survival for the whole planet. is why we need to act or instead serve is a known fact that. it's also why environmental themes have played bigger than ever

this year with activism royalty meeting actually the future king welcome the greater to embark the u.s. president is not a fan the german chancellor try to mediate. but that's up to think good side time is of the essence we need the older ones have to be careful. i am 65 years old all the impatience of our young people is something we are to tap as a potential investor we are to understand that they obviously look at a far different horizon well beyond 2056 in the us. the talk of intergenerational divisions jarred somewhat with the calm outside. perhaps why merkel saved her last with a call to arms for the business elite to work together to avoid a climate disaster. they called us for a cohesive and sustainable world daigle dollars for a sustainable world people i would argue where all this politicians are that you

are the sell of the we try to take this seriously there are a whole host of opportunities open to us but we cannot be looking and going it alone that would be the completely wrong lesson to take all these years after the 2nd world war in that is that you. know what matters is whether the class who's paying attention. my colleague as he was paying attention he joins us tonight from switzerland good evening to you climate policies of course you know topic number one where you are i'm wondering did marigold in her speech does it differ from the e.u. commission president who challenged the e.u.'s green deal yesterday. well bred there was a big difference and maybe it is the enthusiasm with which the policies were presented in was enough underlined speech as you mentioned she touted this as a bold move by the european union that will convert the block and it will give it

a 1st mover advantage that suggested that this was the class type of action that everyone here was expecting whereas anglo merkel was far more cautious and she decided to simply stress out how difficult a process this is that it is a transition that it will take time and whilst she did recognize as we saw the importance of understanding the urge of the younger generations while she realizes that this is not an easy path that the world is trying to take therefore a simply sticking to the pragmatism she's already known for in germany also talked about china today take a listen. pentagons what makes things complicated is that at the moment the european union does not have a unified policy toward china you know over the years everyone saw china as an interesting trading partner the central and eastern european nations then got together eventually and said well france and germany and the other big names are always meeting with china and doing big business now we want to get together and

meet with china all the time too. so what is germany then proposing to do achieve a unified policy towards john. well brant the most important thing is for the european union to finally realize that china is not an isolated country that is trying to play in the world stage anymore it is a world power angle merkel even spoke of a multi-polar world where there are several powers working sometimes together but sometimes not and that in means that the european union must for example work towards a unified policy when it comes to investor protection making sure that investors from the european union are meeting fair conditions in china it is also about climate change working together with china in a unified policy with the european union for example would cover a vast majority of the world's emissions and it is also about the relationship between china and 3rd parties mainly african countries where china is a very big player and where europe is lagging behind i got merkel recognizes there

for the importance for all the european countries to work together to face the challenge that china as a world power now means for the block and she wants to see europe becoming a geo political force in the world not only the bloc that we know it for merkel also mentioned breaks it today and we know in just 8 days. be begins help president his brakes it been there in davos this year. well i would say britain was present we saw some well known names like the reason may and even prince charles but breaks it wasn't really a big topic this year in davos especially if you compare to last year where it was seen as one of the big global threats to the world economy this year it seems like the world has come to terms with the fact that this is what britain wants and that this is going to happen and since we are all expecting an orderly breck's it well it is not that much of an alarm here in davos any more all right my colleague healthier a greatest in davos switzerland i'm here thank you. were

tonight's top stories are about humanity's past the holocaust and humanity's future climate change and they are inextricable forever linked we were reminded that today with the german president poses the question have we learned the lessons from our history his answer no and that was echoed today as scientists reset the doomsday clock to just 100 seconds before midnight now that means metaphorically that humanity has never been so close as it is now to its own total annihilation when scientists 1st set the doomsday clock back in 1947 nuclear weapons were the biggest threat now those weapons have company climate change scientists say years of abusing the planet and ignoring the consequences have resulted in climate change being just as lethal a threat as nuclear weapons former california governor jerry brown unveiled the

clocks new unsettling setting today the moment series tell me how else can we tell people where where we're at how else can we wake up the democrats the republicans the independents the millionaires the billionaires the media owners who carry on their life as though it's that they're on the titanic rated iceberg and they're not worried. that was jerry brown there with a warning about what the doomsday clock means and that time is ticking the day is almost done the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter either d.w. news or you can follow me at bring t.v. don't forget use the hash tag the day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day before we see another day that we want to leave you now with pictures from paris of john paul got teased very last fashion show the fabulous on. of high fashion is bellowing out after

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