very. fun. starts february 28th on w. meaning. this is day w is live from germany mark 75 years since the allied bombing of dresden at the end of world war 2 german president from cultish die my tributes in the city honoring the 10s of thousands who were killed and warning against the country's far right co-opting leave and for their own lives. also on the program china sees its deadliest day yet in the corona virus outbreak health officials attribute

a surge in deaths and infections to new reporting methods spiked raises fears that the virus poses a greater threat to china and the world. i'm phil girl welcome to the program germany's marking the 75th anniversary of the allied bombing of dresden one of world war 2 most controversial moments of the war needed and british and american planes have dropped 5 bombs on the city for 3 days killing tens of thousands of people left dressed and in ruins and sparked a lasting debate for some it was a necessary step in defeating nazi germany for others it was a senseless tragedy. 75 years on the trays didn't bombings still haunt the city a funeral march by moats. set the tone for

a somber ceremony interest in the palace of culture. the message from germany's president never forget. of 50 year in a long. list and sincere remembrance enables us to see and understand the familiar as well as the unfamiliar it enables us to empathize with the fates of all the victims of war and violence across national borders. steinmeyer reportedly struggles with writing this speech how to balance remembering those killed by the allies while at the same time acknowledging nazi atrocities. and biggest fish when we think back to the history of the bombing was in our country we remember 2 things we remember the suffering of the people in german cities and also the suffering germans inflicted on others. over a period of 3 days british and u.s. planes dropped nearly 4000 tons of explosives on kristen the attacks killed some

25000 people and totally wiped out the city's historic center what happened in dresden has been seized on by the far right to portray germany as a victim. said crimes shouldn't be measured against each other there's a very hard it doggedly certainly i wish to say clearly today anyone who still cults the dead of dresden against the dead of auschwitz anyone who tries to downplay german wrongs anyone who tries to falsify historical facts we must stand up to them as democrats and contradict them loudly. lout went and she'd be just like management 3 steinmeyer went on to warn of threats against democracy the far right alternative to germany the 3rd biggest party in germany's parliament plans to hold its own event in dresden. we are also experiencing in our country how anti semitism

and racism are beginning to poison public life again how states governed by the rule of law and democratic institutions are being scorned if elected members of parliament and mocked and ridiculed in the parliaments in which they said this is an attempt to destroy democracy from within. dimock o.t. for. thank you. kristen the physical scars have long since healed the psychological ones are taking longer. and take a look at today's events and indeed the events that come right with correspondent to live any of on how much time he was interested in and attended today's ceremony and. hoffman is here with me welcome both let's start. with you leo do you

hear a bell tolling talk us through today's events. exactly i'm standing in front of the lady the historic own could which was completely destroys during the bombing of space and 75 years ago and this is where just an hour ago german president. closed this human chain of thousands of people from days who have gathered in the streets through the whole of the city center to stand up against hatred to stand up in favor of peace in favor of unity and that marks the end of the serious off events taking place throughout the day and we saw. in the reports. during the official come immigration in the palace of culture just a few hours ago where he held a speech

a very moving speech half an hour long and called on everyone to stand up for never again to commemorate the atrocities off nazi germany but also to commemorate and remember the victims the 25000 people who died here during the bombings 75 years ago so there was a series of events marking this day today so it's a. interesting and it is significant that the far right is still so such a talking point in an event like this look you shouldn't underestimate the recent political developments here in this country and the and the outspoken revamp of this far rights groups and in particular the so-called if tea party i think what happened here during this day in grayson was all this somehow was always there it was there overshadowed the whole day and the german president used all of

his moral authority to make clear that this is not what's german a should stand for what the majority in this country standing for he you should never instrument allies the victims of the bombing of dresden and he also said there is no way and no exceptions of the democrats in this country to use auschwitz and raced and in a same way because what the the far right in germany are saying well if nazi germany did this and allies did that and put one against the other i give you one short example just previous of just before the stay this conversation day one of the main figures of this of the a 50 party was playing again with numbers of the victims was 100000 like it was said by the nazi regime right after the bombing for example various historians made it clear couple of years ago no it's 25 thousands of businesses as well standing

behind so at least only that to one side the overall mood of today's ceremonies and how was that. well the overall mood definitely is somber we heard. this from a speech i talked to a lot of people here who have come out to the streets to commemorate this day and a lot of them have told me that they are feeling like the far right safety and the right right taking over the public sphere especially here in eastern germany where the far right party agency has gained a strong foothold and they really want to demonstrate that the eastern as a city also stands for something else that they stand up to this hatred and they want to demonstrate that. remembers the victims but also remembers the atrocities of nazi germany so i've talked to lots of people who who feel sort of

feel the tragedy off this day but they also feel this is serious situation like german president. hu hu stressed again today. we cannot take peace for granted the 75 years of peace in europe we can take it for granted and everyone in a democracy has to stand up to the forces who want to destroy that democracy thank you for nearly from harvest time and i trust that franco when they think about. now we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world british prime minister boris johnson has fired multiple ministers in a major capital reshuffle and then a surprise move the finance minister sajid javid resigned. his aides and installed new was chosen by the prime minister replacing the job it is that rishi so the

treasury deputy widely seen as a johnson loyalist. you have has released a report accusing more than 100 israeli businesses of being complicit in violating palestinian rights by operating in the occupied west bank palestinian officials have welcomed the report israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu described it as a shameful attempts to blacken his country's name. the cruise ship that spent 2 weeks at sea after 5 countries turns away of fears of coronaviruses arrived in cambodia by the west the doctrine say hot new field to allow come both in officials to collect samples from passengers with signs who are showing signs of viral infection. there has been an alarming surge in the number of infections and deaths from the corona virus named by scientists is kogut 98 the number of infections worldwide has shot up 260000 after 15000 new cases were reported in just one day japan has reported its covert 9 it's 1st to cope with 19 deaths in the epicenter of

the outbreak of china's china. has recorded more than 250. deaths were recorded on wednesday a love was in the province of who begged. dr simon clark who's our son in a microbiologist from the university of reading in england welcome to day doubly dr clark we just heard that chinese authorities are broadening their classification of corona virus infections to include pneumonia symptoms is that a useful sort of precaution or does it muddy the waters. well i think basically the more we know about this infection the more we know about people's symptoms it's only reasonable to expect us to include more and more things that will classify somebody as having coronavirus infections so the more we study the more we know the better we can diagnose these things. we've seen some deaths some

deaths outside china but the vast majority of deaths and infections have been largely confined to the province. should we expect another break somewhere else in the world or do we see this sort of a dwindling and until it becomes manageable. well it's difficult to know whether it'll trindle naughton if indeed it does when that will happen but it's only reasonable to expect that the chinese will be hit hardest 1st because of course that's seemingly where the virus originated as it spreads outside of china you may may see more deaths in other countries and of course the harder countries hits in terms of the number of people going to infected the more deaths you will see there . so in the meantime all we can do is the reasonable things why show hands and if you've been in the area or in contact with someone in the area. do they keep an eye out for the symptoms. i think so yes wash your hands capture any sneezing in

tissues and make sure it's been if you have been exposed to somebody you know who has the infection then in the u.k. at least people are being encouraged to self quarantine and hide themselves away for a fortnight until you infection if they've got the affection would have passed and it's important to remember that if they do get the infection the likelihood is that it will be pretty mild. the numbers and the response i think quite telling we know that pneumonia for instance kills more people every day that has happened during the whole of this particular corona infection so clearly they're corona is not as deadly why is it so dangerous why is it well a world health problem. pneumonia is a catch all phrase for a chest infection any chest infection can be characterized as pneumonia that's all it is it's inflammation in the lot was due to an infection so that's what the

doctors are looking for so yeah pneumonia aside from corona virus will call will kill a lot more people because it represents a lot more infections things like flu and things can cause pneumonia presumably this will not be the last killer virus it doesn't call it that that the world is going to have to deal with so where do these unknown diseases spring from. it seems that they usually spring from animals they mutate they move from animals into the human population and that can happen with flu it's what happened with hiv it's what happens with all sorts of other viruses as well they cross species barriers when they need to take and of course human immune systems probably have never seen anything like them before and that's why they can spread quite quickly good talking to you thank you for joining us dr simon clark from the university of ready you're welcome. there is your money the top story this hour german president frank felt us don meyer has given an address as part of events marking 75 years to see how far

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