this is the news coming to you live from berlin the last living witnesses gathered to mark 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz survivors and world leaders of there today to honor those killed in the nazi death camp with anti semitism on the rise there's a sense of urgency to remind the world what happened there. also coming up travel

bans in place entire cities under lockdown and china's biggest national holiday is extended to keep people at home we are also w h o if these measures will stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus. and a last legend fans mourn us basketball star kobe bryant who was killed along with 8 others in a helicopter crash outside los angeles. hello and welcome. good to have you with us. today marks 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz extermination camp by soviet troops in the final months of the 2nd world war survivors and world leaders are at the site ahead of the official ceremony that's due to start within the next hour the morning began with a retelling said. money to honor the victims these are some of the last remaining

auschwitz survivors the event is being hosted by polish president under buddha among the guests invited to today's official ceremonies german president from pontus time maya and is really present groovin rivlin plus dozens of world leaders . it was on this day in $145.00 soviet troops liberated auschwitz and its prisoners germany's nazi that established the camp in occupied poland in $1040.00 and 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 the nazi gas chambers others were also sent to auschwitz roma and sinti polish political prisoners gay people catholic priests and jehovah's witnesses plus dissidents now as the world remembers the holocaust more than

$200.00 of the field remaining survivors of auschwitz have made the trip to attend the commemorations for many of them this may be the last time they return to decide where the endured such horrors joining me now from auschwitz is did of your 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 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 at 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 our schmidt's many of them murdered within a very short time after they arrived and that is the location where later on the softer noon 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 off the survivors and they go are going to be there at the so many still us more 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 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 and you hear them talking how much pain they bring with them i think a lot of that we will hear the so often in 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 incomprehensible 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 one of those who survived the holocaust is dubbed levine now living here in berlin he still struggles to understand how other people could justify the mud 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 4 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. this day is an anniversary for me it's an anniversary of death. this year is no different krakow airport every year the custodians of auschwitz 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 they're here to listen to the last living witnesses and their stories of the hell that was. 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 that. he. 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 on a list of john barry john resul adopted levine that he's with today for those set of minis and every year we see fewer of these eyewitness accounts fewer survivors how important obvious stories especially given that this ng arises and dissonant is in many parts of the land well they're crucial aren't they i'm 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 their own 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 in jerusalem or serving in na schmidt's 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 deutsch of the other 5 years ago for 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 chamber as soon as they arrived and that evokes a visceral response i think that is difficult to explain and despite all that i have documentation of the horrors of what took place in auschwitz we see the rise and anti semitism 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 being 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. the 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 to curb it john barry thank you very much for joining me. we have live coverage of the official ceremony is marking 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz

coming up here that's in about an hour from now and also there's lots more on this anniversary on our website that c.w. dot com including reconnections by survivors of the holocaust. let me now be up to date with some other stories making news around the blad exit polls from italy indicate the country's drive train league up antti its best to fear didn't submit to when a key reached an election to lead it mattila salvini campaigned relentlessly in northern immediate romagna hoping a victory against the center left democratic party would help him bring down italy's fragile national coalition government. in brazil it is 44 people have died after torrential storms caused floods and landslides entire buildings were washed away in the southeastern part of the country and more than 14000 residents have had to leave their homes authorities are warning that more landslides a likely. china is now the 2nd largest arms producing nation

behind the u.s. a report by a swedish research institute says 4 chinese a weapons company is ranked among the once top 20 cell as the estimated combined says to 49000000000 euros in 2017. stigma china which has extended the lunar new year holiday to keep people at home and contain the spread of a new crew now virus the deaths to his jumps to 80 people with at least 2700 others infected the virus is all to surface in 11 countries around the globe travel bans have been put in several cities and locked down and life for tens of millions of people 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 so it is necessary to mobilize grassroots communities including

rural communities. we need to implement a blanket tracking and grid 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. joining us now from geneva it's christiane and into maya from the u.s. it was handled when isaacson 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 that. so of course i'm meeting with a whole geisha in order to go over the recent findings of the recent measures and to see whether 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 hampering. 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 of a sneeze. fever but this is very similar to exactly that the flu or other responders or syndromes so many people will go and seek for clarification for help at the medical authorities and they will not have to score on of our as the novel coronavirus they will have other diseases or 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 welcome 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 also 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. that was christiane lynn maya from the u.n. was handled in a station speaking to me from geneva. fans and fellow plasm mourning the sudden death of the american basketball star kobe bryant and 8 other victims who died in the trash the retired any make a stay i was traveling on

a private helicopter and it went down into us angelus 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. it was grounded on sunday due to fog the shock of the crash has triggered a huge outpouring of. he was the smiling face of n.b.a. basketball for 2 decades kobe 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. 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. by daughter amy 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 'd world that you always tell us to go after our dreams so. man. she's a weather man out so i had to man up and 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 welcome to lima give me you'll sense of what made kobe bryant 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 want 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 in way too long to this but for once he won 5 n.b.a. championships he is a 2 time olympic gold medalist twice the n.t. and. a finals m.v.p. but if i had every type 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 $81.00 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 a huge outpouring of grief his sudden death what are people saying about him so colby 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 keyes dedicates the show to the n.b.a. star let's take a look. so. to say. to.

her. we know you call. very building so everyone united in their grief how do you think lima could 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 liked to write books children's books on basketball and as to report mentioned he won an oscar for short animated film and coby of

course will be remembered at the end for 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. thank you very much. and one tributes were paid to kobe bryant trap the 2020 grammys in los angeles the show did go on and the awards with fact by 18 year old pop sensation billy eilish and producer brother phil yes the siblings took home 11 honors for recorded to do in the bedroom of their los angeles home and also became the youngest artist ever to pick up their 4 top grammys for best new artist best record best album and song

of the bad guy. here's a recap of the top stories that we're following for you survivors of world leaders at the auschwitz concentration camp to mark the 75th anniversary of its liberation . germany's nazis built the camp during the 2nd world war in occupied poland more than a 1000000 people were killed there during the 2nd world war most of them jews. and china has extended the lunar new year holiday in a bid to contain the spread of the girl and of virus at least 80 people have died and more than 2700 have been infected some 60000000 people are on lockdown or

under government ordered travel restrictions. up next we have arts and culture show and don't forget you can always get the latest news around the clock of our website. dot com i'm on the thought she won and if you can do join us at the top of the hour for our extended live coverage on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz.

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