this is g w news live from berlin tonight going back 75 years going back to hell going back to auschwitz on this anniversary of the liberation of the nazi death camp survivors speak of the past with a message for the future joined by world leaders and dignitaries to honor those murdered at the nazi extermination camp they warn not to forget also coming up as he welcomes israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to the white house u.s. president will trump says he's got a plan for middle east peace details to do on tuesday and the world

mourns a sports giants kobe bryant's basketball superstar along with his teenage daughter and others in a helicopter crash in california. i bring it off it's good to have you with us they are owed and they are few and they came from far and wide back to the place where they were supposed to die survivors of the nazi death camp join the world leaders and dignitaries today to mark the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation of the day when the killing began to end . living the horrors of fate. the agony etched over his

face. and yet despite the pain these holocaust survivors have returned to this forum a death camp to remind the world where anti semitism and racism can lead. in front of the gates of auschwitz known as the gates of death a commemoration ceremony in which delegates from $61.00 countries are taking part and $200.00 auschwitz survivors each with that terrible memories of what happened here i remember that you are there to make it women trucks for the barracks. stream i can hear. the screaming i can hear it in my

subconscious when i remember the event missed you. elza baker who's blind was 8 when she arrived at auschwitz she was one of the 23000 sinti and roma people to portage here it isn't it all meant for me to to be here among so many people who have suffered so blatantly perhaps even much more so than oh i. and. i. i think. it's useful but. i don't know. if i'm upset. but in spite of the past anti semitism is on the rise again in 2020. we hear the same lies the nazis used so effectively in their propaganda they

said jews have too much power jews control the economy and the media jews control governments jews control everything we have this madness online in the media and even within democratic governments. these brave men and women know the cost of anti semitism they come to fake at fox it already seems that too many listening put on the. top and that 75 years afterwards w.'s chief political editor metallica's know she has been following the commemoration force today good evening to you make up i mean it has been a day where so many things that have been said so many things that you've seen and have i'm sure that they've struck you what touched you the most during the ceremony today. well

a further one of those 4 survivors who actually spoke today was but she of a dog on a 94 year old survivor that she spent 20 months and that she survived to death marches then went on to become a psychologist and she resizes one of the things that helped her survive because really that was so unlikely with these people having the odds so stopped against them and she said that that was friendship now this woman also went on to become a psychologist and went on to develop methods of teaching young children about the holocaust and i thought there was a rather resoundingly message from her. to the young people saying you bear the responsibility that this should not happen again and actually to parents i'm one of them but you have to talk to young children about this is well and i thought that was rather personal and also a clear message that we are all responsible that this kid can never happen again

you mentioned they're talking with before you had the chance to talk to survivors today what message did they bring to our streets today i mean 75 years after it was liberated. yes i actually had the chance to walk a few misses with a few of them when they actually came back to the house it's one camp and what was striking is that actually all of them i spoke to really fear fear that this could happen again and feel this weight of responsibility not just to tell people about what happened but to send that message that when something starts with a simple thing like no jews allowed to sit on the spend or something that certain areas close for a certain group as soon as minorities are felt to no longer be part of society they

are not just simply concerned they are really the you could see the fear that this will directly lead to democracy being damaged and potentially to become yet another road to yet another because for them it's a very concrete thing that happened was there today i mean did you get the sense talking to these survivors that they see this rise of anti-semitism does this new wave of populism do they see. things to do and now we're going to the horrors that they experienced more than 75 years ago. well what one must not forget that even the survivors who lived through this and to happen haunted by this 3 generations now to 75 years they are still themselves in disbelief that this could happen and they simply don't have any answers how any

individual how germans could do this how humans could do something like this so when they see a rise of anti semitism we'll see any kind of racism going on there bells are ringing and clearly a lot of those alarm bells were ringing here today. all right speculative new there joining us from the commemoration ceremonies in. the killer thank you. and for more now i'm joined here at the big table by. him for he is a historian here in berlin at berlin's free university mr o'keefe it's good to see you again much of your work as a historian is connected with commemorating the past how important are ceremonies like the ones we seem to day i think ceremonies are very important however. we have to go a little bit beyond ceremonies in particular i think we have to acquaint young

people with what it meant to be jewish and what it means to be jewish today so we think we need to spread knowledge about jewish law if jewish culture jewish religion in order to prevent moves. the rise of you and to some it is as a result over and all its lack of experience do you think the problem here the we're not imparting enough history to young people today and does that explain the rise of populist parties and anti-semitism i think it's one of the one of the reasons not of course i mean we have several reasons of course but it's one of the reasons because people i think know too little about jewish life and they are barrie is they are you know. as a result of the leg of knowledge and like of empathy a bit of experience so we have to acquaint young people with what it means to be

jewish what it meant to be jewish at the in the past. in the 3rd reich the survivors in the eye witnesses are always an important part of the commemorations i'm going to have a listen to what a soldier from the soviet red army had to say when he entered alfred's today in 1945 think of this. as we approached the camp there was a smell of burning in the air. force we were already used to the smell of burning we had come through ukraine and had seen and gone into burnt down cities and into towns that were still burning. smell was somehow acrid yet. our comrades from a different regiment entered the camp from a different side. but that was the point of being told us that when they

went in they saw burning and smoldering stacks. that camp guards had stacked. but then piled on the corpses then more timber and more body as stacks guided. more gasoline on it all and lit it on the fire. shower comrade saw the stacks when they were still smoldering. and the smell of that smoke really was everywhere in the area even when we left that smell of burning stayed with us for a long time of course. you could understand the. survivor holocaust survivor believe israel said that what happened there exactly what we're hearing there was beyond human imagination and which is true but

how important are these eyewitness testimonies now there are fewer and fewer of these survivors these eyewitnesses to tell us what they saw how important are they as we remember and this year someone is maybe maybe one of the last major locations we need to include these survivors into the ceremonies and this is what makes it kind of unique i think survivors memories are important because they link us to the past the link the present and the parsed so we need to keep the memories. and this has been done is being done with the projects such as the show a foundation pro day. we also have to conserve the remains of the victims by the way in this this has been done and this is being done and places like auschwitz i think the importance is to make history very concrete and comprehensible

and and the fate of the of the victims i think is very important of course we need to me. to know the overall policies of the nazi perpetrators but their impact on human beings needs to may be made clear you know does it change the way we remember the past particularly that the holocaust when there are no more survivors i think it does because and this is wide soup orton's you know to focus on the on the victims and preserve their memories. and as i said i mean this makes history very very clear and very concrete quite apart from the overall policies that we have to deal with to talk about as well you know aren't our camper historian with the free university here in berlin mr rochefort as always we appreciate your insights thank you thank you much like a. well our coverage of the ceremony continues later but here on the w.

on the day you can watch it here or on demand on our website that's it b w dot com. all right let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world u.s. officials have confirmed that a small american military plane has crashed in afghanistan the aircraft went down in the television held province of gaza a spokesman for the insurgents gave conflicting statements about whether it had crashed or been shot down the incident is still being investigated pakistani police have arrested past activist leader and military critic bonds or posh teen he was detained along with 6 others and held for quote disturbing public order ahead of a planned rally on monday where his group the p.t. m. has accused security forces of conducting extra judicial killings in brazil at least 44 people have died after torrential storms caused floods and landslides entire buildings were washed away in the south east and more than 14000 residents had to leave their homes authorities are warning that more landslides are likely.

u.s. president donald trump says he has a plan to solve the israeli palestinian conflict and is ready to unveil it if we do that he says tomorrow now it's expected to be firmly in israel's favor and has already been rejected by by palestinian authorities trump welcomed israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main political rival biddy guns to the white house today to discuss the peace plan. the jordan valley in the occupied west bank the area running along the jordan river bordering jordan is to teach equally important for both israelis and palestinians the fertile areas home to israeli settlements palestinian villages and many farms. at this israeli pepper farm you version is waiting to hear more about president trump's way forward . lots of things that we don't need anyone to lay out

a peace plan having said that we trust president trump and prime minister netanyahu that they will strike a good deal. expectations are particularly high among israeli officials that the trump plan could lead to the an explosion of the jordan valley area that means it would officially become part of the state of israel as prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised during the last election campaign. i think it's a historic and dramatic moment for the state of israel. the adoption of israeli law in the jordan valley and the dead sea will give security personal security to the residents of the coastal plain and the people of israel. foot decades israeli politicians have demanded that the jordan valley remain with israel as a security buffer as it eastern border with jordan today it is already controlled by israel as

a result of the oslo peace accords from 1903 this particular area makes up about a quarter of the west bank israeli say they cannot give up on the jordan valley 1st reasons palestinians say there cannot be a palestinian state without the jordan valley. in the palestinian village of bartle our people are waiting to hear what the trump plan actually entail it's the leadership in ramallah of us not consulted because it has cut diplomatic relations with the trump ministration where he doesn't have the right he owns his own country that he can give to israel to britain de france to germany but he doesn't have the right to just hand out land that isn't his it's not the property of his father that he can just hand out. skepticism also prevents among palestinians in east jerusalem the part of the city palestinians would like to see as their capital in a futurist state in 2017 trump recognized to roost as the capital of israel many

palestinians have no hope that his plan will take their interests into account myself this deal brings fear it's a humiliation because since 948 we've trying to establish our presence but we're just humiliated and we don't have any say in any decision making. he had to stop that that this deal of the century is being imposed on us anything that's imposed doesn't invite peace and invites war why because i as a human i ask for peace and you impose on me peace in your way so you are saying to me no the phase an individual and. people are counting down the time of. the trump plan one thing is all but certain this is the cause for the tensions in the region. what china has extended the lunar new year holiday to keep people at home and to contain the spread of that new coronavirus the death toll has jumped to more than 80 now with at least 2700 other people infected the virus is also

serviced in 11 other countries around the globe travel bans have put several chinese cities under lockdown life for tens of millions as come to a standstill. on 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 blanket tracking and group based management and ensure every household and individual fully exercises prevention and control measures like health crisis is that listen to our correspondent there he is in beijing where people say they are frightened and increasingly frustrated with the authorities he gave us the latest on the situation there this area is a major tourist hot spot in the heart of paging it is unusually quiet even for

a new year's holiday. people avoid going out people try to stay at home as much as they can and try not to meet other people in order not to catch the disease that has many people here worried a lot what is worrying the people is that we still know little about the disease and people have the feeling they cannot trust the information they are getting nobody knows how widespread the disease already is there is a lot of criticism of the government in social media here in china unusually widespread and unusually blunt people feel that the government could have stopped this epidemic if it had reacted earlier. in that was the w.'s multi-use brillig reporting from beijing fans fellow players are mourning the death of the american basketball star kobe bryant and 8 other victims who all died in a helicopter crash on sunday the retired l.a. lakers player was in

a private helicopter when it went down near los angeles yesterday leaving no survivors the victims include his teenage daughter and other young athletes and members of their families and investigation has begun but authorities say other local air traffic was grounded at the time due to fog. has triggered a huge outpouring of grief for. around the world and the talk about that now i'm joined by anthony howard from our sports desk and the it is amazing just the reaction that we're seeing here to the news that so bryant has died and it's it's not so much because he was a basketball player great basketball player it was because he transcended the world of basketball right yeah i think what allowed him to do that was respect basketball was his church but the message was respect he didn't set out to be locked all the time he was not locked well of his teammates because he demanded that everyone push

success and winning with exactly the same intensity that he did there was no room for anyone else with any other ideas than just an absolute intensity that he had translated into businesses many different businesses it wasn't just a pipe to say that he was selling biggest of mcdonald's he was doing much more he built a venture capital company and that invested in bobber and don't compute as they exited with a golden handshake from those 2 and still owns a stake. in forth not guns in the in if it got him so he was across a broad church into time and music smarts and a lot of other things. but what if the he did what beat in business or in basketball he demanded that single mindedness and i think that's what allowed him to touch people from some of the different walks of life that's what gave him the respect of so many as were about to say he being an athlete like he was uses for him to do so much. we need more of that. i feel

horrible about the loss he had his own style of the way he played ball and everything so just like everybody wanted to be like my it was a lot of people that wanted to be like kobe bryant to me it's a horrible loss to the world and i think everyone thinks about the obvious this incredible basketball player but he was just such an incredible human being and would help anyone anytime i mean it was. the mentality that made him so likable and like you said he said i'd rather be a lightning rod be someone who is happy go lucky all the time and number method yes exactly right this crash of the helicopter do we know anything else 24 hours later about why it crashed federal every action authority and the national transport authority with the f.b.i. will sift through the wreckage for mechanical clues but this conversation is most likely to begin and end with the way the conditions i think fall the l.a.p.d. support wing does not to take off as you mentioned in the intro. they look for 2

miles visibility and a ceiling no less of 1000 feet and i did not have that available to them mountainous terrain they going to records of the moment from what the air traffic controllers said to the pilot that's where the conversation we know los angeles is not a place where pilots have a lot of experience flying in fog and how it is always anthony thank you. oh well tributes were paid to kobe bryant throughout the 2020 grammys in los angeles last night the show did go on the awards were swept by 18 year old pop sensation billie eilish and her producer brother and the siblings took home what was it the rule of an honors for brecker they produced in the bedroom of their los angeles home that's right. also became the youngest artist ever to pick up the 4 top grammys for best new artist best record best album and song of the year bad guy.

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