you know. i am. this is the darby news coming to you live from bali and the last living witnesses gathered to mark 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz survivors and one leaders are dead today to honor those killed at the nazi death camp with anti semitism on the rise is a sense of urgency to remind the world what happened there. also on the program travel bans in place entire cities under lockdown and china's biggest national holiday is extended to keep people at home riaz a w h

o if these measures will stop the spread of a deadly coronado byron's. and a last legend franz morning u.s. basketball star kobe bryant who was killed along with 8 others in a helicopter crash outside los angeles. had an of a will make. today marks 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz extermination camp by soffits troops in the final months of the 2nd world war survivors and world leaders are gathering at the site ahead of the official ceremony the mourning began with a wreath laying ceremony to honor the victims these are some of the last remaining auschwitz survivors the event is being hosted by polish president duda among the

guests invited to today's official ceremonies our german president. and israeli president ruben driveline and dozens of other world leaders. on this day in 145 soviet troops liberated auschwitz and its prisoners germany's nazis that established the camp in occupied poland in 1014 it was the largest and deadliest about 1300000 people were deported to auschwitz most of them were jews from across europe nearly all of them were killed in nazis gas chambers others were also sent to auschwitz room mind sinti polish political prisoners gay people catholic priests and jehovah's witnesses as the world remembers the holocaust more than $200.00 of the few remaining survivors of auschwitz have made the trip to attend the commemorations for many of them this may be the last time that they return to the site where the endured such horas. joining me now from auschwitz

correspondent simon young simon auschwitz more than any other place symbolizes the horrors of the holocaust tell us about what is going to happen that to commemorate the victims and the liberation of this camp 75 years ago. yeah today i'm standing at auschwitz birkenau that's the site of this vast extermination camp where you can still see the remains of the seemingly endless rows of very basic huts that the inmates here were crammed into there are the kilometers of barbed wire fencing in the watchtowers i think you can see some of that behind me it really is a very desolate place but one end of this site. a large tent has been constructed right over the top of that iconic gate of death as it's known that's

the gate through which the railway wagons came bringing so many who would never leave auschwitz many of them murdered within a very short time after they arrived and that is the location where later on this afternoon the solemn ceremonies will take place as you've mentioned the wreath laying and speeches and what we will be hearing from as ever the people who are in the focus of this event the $200.00 survivors who be making the journey here this year their stories will be told yes there will be leaders from dozens of countries listening to them but the organizers say what they really want is for those survivor stories to be heard around the world so as you said $200.00 on the survivors and they go are going to be there at the so many still us not about them simon.

well the survivors are very special people and as many people here have been recognizing very have in many cases overcome a lot of personal pain to come here and follow their sense of duty to share their stories and issued those warnings to future generations i was hearing last night from a survivor he described how he had survived because his mother and his grandmother had smuggled him into the one of the hearts for female prisoners and hidden him under the straw that they were forced to sleep on an incredible story like that he said his revenge against hitler was his 5 grandchildren these are the kind of personal stories that people are still able to tell some of them bring a great sense of life and joy paradoxically enough with them but of course you feel when you see them when you hear them talking how much pain they bring with them i

think a lot of that we will hear the softer noon again and you know a lot of people have said how important it is just to listen to try to understand because one thing i can say being here in auschwitz and i have been here before but it is just an income for hence a bowl experience it's a unique place and you know really the sense that nothing like this should ever happen again hits you at every turn simon young at the auschwitz death camp thank you very much for those insights from there. now we have more about the recent summers in anti semitism across europe in just a moment but 1st let's return to one of survivor did talk to david levy here in berlin he still struggles to understand how other people could justify the murder of his entire family just because of their jewish faith. at home in his one

bedroom apartment in berlin david levine lives here alone his wife has moved to a nursing home he's one of the last remaining auschwitz survivors his parents and siblings were murdered there over 75 years ago. that's me that's my brother and another brother and my sister. the 94 year old was born in warsaw to a jewish family during the nazis reign of terror he was sent to 4 different concentration camps. i give all the question why. i can't answer that today. i can't even think about it why. why a 9 year old girl who hadn't done anything who hadn't sinned why did they murder why. all their sons again she hadn't done anything in life only because she had

a different tree. it was 19 when auschwitz was liberated. while there he was forced to work in the gas chambers as a slave labor of the german company that produced the deadly gas. i worked down in the gas chambers we collected the cycling gas. you just turn into stone you know what i mean. the horror is hard to comprehend for many years it has returned to auschwitz at the end of january. would be this day is an anniversary for me. it's an anniversary of. this year is no different krakow airport every year the custodians of our streets bring survivors together on the anniversary marking the liberation of the german

extermination camp but the interest this year is higher than usual. the press contingent for the 75th anniversary is huge the hits you listen to the last living witnesses and their stories of the hell that was our streets starved for one day i found out that my brother was shot. to this day i still don't know why. and i can never get over the. old. story i can't go on. i'll start crying. start crying. i can't continue. it. that has to cut his talk short it's like he can still feel the beatings today he

tells us 75 years after the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp. and with me i have a john barry john resul adopted levine that he's in auschwitz today for those set of minis and every year we see fewer of these eyewitness accounts fewer survivors how important august stories especially given the pissing rise of anderson it is in many parts of the leg well they are crucial on a reason i you know i don't know how it's affected you but just watching that report myself i have found myself very very moved when people tell are in stories and you sense the very deep pain fortunately of course most of those stories have been recorded on on video they will remain in various museums around the world in new york in yad vashem in into rooster more serving in our shirts there also

there's a whole literature of course of memoirs of people who were there we have these records but i think very importantly is auschwitz itself when i was there for deutsche of better 5 years ago but the 70th anniversary i remember standing. in front of a pile of small battered leather suitcases with the names of children stenciled on to than these children who were herded into the gas chambers soon as they arrived and at that evokes a visceral response i think that is difficult to explain and joan despite all that of documentation of the horrors of what took place in auschwitz we see the rise an anti semitism and why. when i think there is one of the reasons of course is that the memory is receding at that it's 75 years ago. inevitably to very young people at some stage the 2nd world war is going to seem as remote as the. napoleonic wars. and it's will sound like something like the spanish inquisition

something that is terrible but somehow it doesn't touch our lives that's one of the things i think another reason is that and a very worrying reason is that we live in. a society and a culture of great uncertainty where the values of liberal democracies are really put in question by white supremacist extreme nativist nationalistic governments all over europe and some people would say even in the united states at the moment and that is very worrying because that kind of extreme nationalism often is connected to xenophobia and anti semitism is just one step away from that absolutely in everyone's going to read about that and try to take steps to contain it curb it john barry thank you very much for joining me. andy we'll have live coverage of the official ceremonies marking 75 years since the

liberation of auschwitz later today and also we have lots more on this anniversary on our website that's dondi dot com including reconnections by survive as of the holocaust. that may not be up to date but some of the stories making news around the vide officials in afghanistan say in at plane has crashed in the mountains in the thought a bomb had to province of gosney the sea off the national carrier ariana and lines denied reports that the jet was a passenger plane operated by the state john and 9 there's been no immediate vonta as to how many people were on board. exit polls from the country's right. to have failed in its bid to win an election. campaign relentlessly in the northern state of. hoping a victory against the center left democratic party that would help him bring down italy's fragile national coalition government. china has extended the lunar new

year holiday to keep people at home and contain the virus of a new virus now the spread of the virus not the death toll has jumped to 80 people with more than 2000 others infected the virus has also surfaced an 11 countries around the travel bans have several chinese cities under lockdown and life for tens of millions is near standstill. drained of life traffic arteries once choked with vehicles swept clean. the city's main train station. shuttered and deserted. checkpoints are everywhere measuring the temperature of the few drivers still on the streets this is a city in the grip of a deadly disease. while transport has come to a virtual standstill these images from social media show hospitals crowded with people desperate to be treated. as the official number of cases keeps rising

beijing's response has been hands on 2 new hospitals are being stamped out of the ground in will han to be completed in little more than a week. but intervention from the top is likely not enough to stem the spread of the coronavirus officials say local efforts are more important than ever. what you're teaching the epidemic prevention and control efforts at a critical moment. it is necessary to mobilize grassroots communities including rural communities. we need to implement a blanket tracking and group based management and ensure every household and individual fully exercises prevention and control measures. in a country that is usually managed from up high the devolution of the disaster response in china is

a sign of how serious this public health crisis is that list joining us now from geneva is christiane into my ear from the u.n. . and welcome to you now you want to direct a general is in beijing today for an emergency meeting on the outbreak what can we expect from talks there. so of course they're meeting with a whole legation in order to go over the recent findings of the recent measures and to see whether the that the world health organization is able to assist or to come back with a better knowledge and a better understanding of the disease to inform the world's communities about what's going on in china as we've heard this some 60000000 people under virtual lockdown across china and yet the virus is still spreading to what extent and other measures taken by china helping. well you have to see that i mean with the thousands and thousands of people as the images shows showing up in hospitals of

course because this virus presents with rule like symptoms from mild to very serious sneeze. fever but this is very similar to exactly that the flu or other respiratory syndrome so many people will go and seek for clarification for help at the medical authorities and they will not have this coronavirus this novel coronavirus they will have other diseases just not much better but a scratch in the throat this is unfortunately what it brings on the same time it is very important to look at all these people and to. treat them and also to see which ones actually in fact and which ones are not the more and we are looking or the more the chinese authorities will be looking at the more people we will find most likely this comes with with the nature of it and this is a good at the same time it's important to see that mostly all of the cases that we know so far are clearly related to the outbreak in one and 2 either clusters

of families and friends or with medical staff infected who are very close contact with with the patients or the very close contact is still an important thing it doesn't seem to be spreading this virus does not seem to be spreading easily elsewhere from human to human but you already has this and decided against declaring an international public health emergency of the virus last week is that if you're having 2nd thoughts on that decision. so they. accepted a recommendation by an independent expert committee which is important as quite a number of scientists and experts were sitting together discussing this one of the criteria which is interesting here is this international spread while we do have definitely a crisis in china and you see the pictures this is not looking at all there is a crisis in china these are doing everything but the international spread is of

a crucial question here the risks to the international sphere we do see travelers going abroad and and bringing the virus with them. as much as we know they have been detected by the health system by the countries have been have been treated the transmission from these travelers that important criteria so let's say the travel agent the agent at the airport the bus driver the taxi driver the family member stayed home and once we see such cases being carried on was that would be an important criteria to looking at this criteria of international health concern a public health emergency of international concern and. we haven't seen that yet christiane. thank you very much for. the. fans and fellow players a mourning the sudden death of american basketball star bryan bryant and 8 other victims who died in the crash the retired any lakers fan was traveling on

a private helicopter when it went down in los angeles on sunday leaving no survivors the victims include his teenage daughter and other young athletes and their family members the investigation is ongoing but authorities say other local air traffic was grounded on sunday due to fog the shock of the crash has triggered a huge outpouring of grief. he was the smiling face of n.b.a. basketball for 2 decades kobe bean bryant troubled and scored with the formidable los angeles lakers his entire career. his death has shocked fans around the world many say his influence expands beyond just the basketball court. more than basketball. it was. 45 years of. this much love for one man. bryant was

a shooting guard for the l.a. lakers he went straight from high school to the n.b.a. he was an 18 time all-star who won 5 n.b.a. titles and 2 of them picked gold medals. but his reputation wasn't only glowing in 2003 bryant was accused of rape the case was eventually dropped and a separate civil suit was settled out of court. only 41 years old he died alongside his 13 year old daughter giana she also showed on court talent and was aiming to follow her father's footsteps into professional basketball he credited john after winning an unexpected oscar in 2018 for his animated short deer basketball all of it. my daughter gave me the best piece of advice i was a little. worried about turning this into a film i've never done that somebody before and we're in a house and we're talking about as a family and i will live in your job 'd that you always tell us to go after our

dreams so. man. she's a weather man so i had a man go for bryant and his wife had 4 daughters and after retiring in 2016 he became a vocal advocate for female sports. even outside of sports people around the world are now mourning the loss of a longtime icon. with me i have to talk you from the sports desk was can really give me you'll sense of what brian's such a sports icon he was one of the greatest players ever the game has seen he played 20 seasons for the l.a. lakers but his reach extended way beyond that he inspired so many different generations to pick up a basketball and you know everyone has so many players that one want to emulate his

playing style and he went to the n.b.a. straight from high school as though he was a teenager when he started and his achievements on the court are just incredible way too long to list here. but for once he won 5 n.b.a. championships he is a 2 time olympic gold medalist twice the n.d. n.b.a. finals m.v.p. but if i had every to 2 words to describe him i would say clutch his ability to finish games and back in for example what i remember so vividly was back in 2006 he single handedly scored 81 points in one game and that's the 2nd highest ever in n.b.a. history and that's what colby was all about his performance has brought people to their feet and he does he was saying that this would be huge outpouring of grief his sudden death what are people saying about him so koby made an impact on so many different people and that's why the outpouring of grievances has been so diverse

and for example his former teammate shaquille o'neal tweeted there's no words to express the pain i'm going through with this tragedy of losing my niece gigi and my brother kobe bryant i'm sick right now and italian football club and also gave their condolences koby of course spent a big chunk of his childhood in italy we have no words to express how shocked we are to hear of the tragic passing of one of the greatest sportsman of all time and always or never off hand and even the grammys ceremony opened up with a tribute to kobe bryant and we have a clip of that last night where ilesha keys dedicates the show to the n.b.a. star let's take a look. so. to say. to.

her. we love you paul. very building so everyone united in their grief how do you think lima corby will be remembered he had so many incredible characteristics and that's what made him so successful he had a never give up attitude and a very very strong work ethic and that's why i think at the end he transcended the sport he also became a cultural icon a fashion icon you don't even have to know basketball in order to know him and aside from basketball he also like to write books children's books on basketball it has to report mentioned he won an oscar for short animated film and coby of course will be remembered at the end has so many things including his many many more of

ational quotes so i think it's only fitting to end this chat with one of them let's take a look have a good time life is too short to get bogged down and discouraged you have to keep moving put one foot in front of the other smile and just keep rolling great advice absolutely may he rest in peace and. thank you very much. she has a recap of the top story that we're following feel survivors and world leaders are at the auschwitz concentration camp to mark the 75th anniversary of this liberation jimmie's knox you split the counter in the 2nd world war in occupied poland more than a 1000000 people were killed there during the 2nd world war most of them shoes. and we'll be bringing you live coverage of the same it is due to start in auschwitz

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