this is d.w. news from berlin tonight the battle over dresden germany marks 75 years since the allied bombing one of the most controversial attacks in the 2nd world war germany's president. tributes in the city today honoring the 10s of thousands who were killed and warning against the country's far right co-opting history also coming up china's deadliest day yet in the corona virus outbreak a surge in deaths and infections due to new reporting methods that's what china

claims is the virus a greater threat to china and the world a greater threat than we thought and the ongoing tragedy of sri lanka's civil war the government says tens of thousands missing from the conflict are actually dead but that's little comfort for the families still searching for justice and a german soccer bundesliga side tears of berlin cut all ties with europe influenced by the former world cup winner quits as hertz's coach just a few days ago will have more on a nasty football divorce. i'm good to have you with us germany is marking the 75th anniversary of the allied bombing of dresden one of world war 2 most controversial moments as the war neared its end the british and american planes draw. fire bombs on the city for 3 days

killing tens of thousands of people the assault left dresden in ruins and it 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 train bombings still haunt this city a funeral march by mozart set the tone for some best ceremony interest in the palace of culture. the message from germany's president never spoke at. all 50 in a long. list and sincere remember it's enabled us to see and understand the familia as well as the unfamiliar it enables us to empathize with the fights 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. when they 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 preston the attacks killed some 25000 people and totally wiped out the city's historic center what happened in dress then 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. to say clearly today anyone who still counts 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. out she'd be just like management thank. god i'm born of threats against democracy the far right alternative for germany the 3rd biggest party in germany's parliament plans to hold its own event in dresden. oh 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 are mocked and ridiculed in the parliaments in which they said this is an attempt to destroy democracy from within. thank

you dressed in the physical scars have long since hailed the psychological one said taking longer. to be here in the studio to put today's events in context forces my colleague frank often for us good to see you talk us through the main points today the main takeaways from this ceremony that we just saw part of the speech of president that was essential and it was a very strong speech making clear that this country this open society this liberal democracy is against rewards in history for the in the sense of being used by right wing extremists for example well i found after the speech a very highly emotional moment was when the president just in front of. the famous fallen of grace and the church of all 88 which was destroyed in the warner says right into the war and rebuild with the help of

a lot of people from united states even former german jews donated money to rebuild this church a sign of reconsideration he came out and he closed a human chain and for me that as was a very powerful symbol outlining that this liberal democracy. it's underlining their narrative of this of the 2nd world war and this all takes place with the knowledge that there is a resurgence of the far right in this country what role did the far right play in the message we heard today. made it crystal clear. any. any. i commend taishan in a way bringing its german atrocities in a connection to what happened in trace and using these victims to instruments allies and for political right reasons of the right wing fear is something all the

democrats in this country stood against up to and i think that was a very strong moment followed by applause and i i didn't i have to say that this. central phrase of this whole speech you know that didn't end until the and that was the red line until the end when people then stood up and and paid a standing ovation i mean you bring up a good point this message that there could not be a comparison of victimizations when you're talking about the war and the numbers and the numbers exactly his speech also mentioned the publish town of the which is where the 1st nazi war crime in the 2nd world war took place you've been there you've reported on commemorations about how did that play into the speech today not only commemorations i was able to talk with the last survivors of the city say of this atrocity you know the rates of this bombing and. the president was there last

year 1st of september to commemorate the beginning of world war 2 in poland this destruction this destroying this atrocity was the print of the nazi and german terrorism of in eastern europe that foot that that came right after that and that led to auschwitz and you know bringing this in this town in his speech and he this is what he started with. a town that was bombed with bombs. by the german airforce just to show that they can do it there was no military evidence whatsoever to do so that was a very strong signal also to germany's naval poland and the pin the people pull you know it's important that it is important to remember that all of these things have to be put into context which you just expect thank you very much thanks for having me. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world british prime minister boris johnson has fired multiple ministers in

a major cabinet reshuffle and in a surprise move the finance minister. resigned rather than fire his aides and install new ones chosen by johnson replacing job is soon up a treasury deputy widely seen as a johnson lawyers you see in my fair european commission president and ally and has acknowledged mistakes in hell external consultants were hired when she was germany's defense minister but she defended the use of those consultants fund a lie and was testifying today before a german parliamentary committee investigating accusations of nepotism and inefficiency indonesia's. volcano has erupted throwing ash thousands of metres into the air residents were told to stay outside of a 3 kilometer exclusion zone as one of the world's most active volcanoes its last major eruption 10 years ago killed more than 300 people.

are to sri lanka now and that country's halting reconciliation process following a 30 year civil war when the conflict ended in 2009 around 20000 people were listed as missing but last month has the president declared that the missing are in fact dead is statement means death certificates can now be issued to the families while that may help them with legal matters many of the families say that after 10 years of uncertainty over their loved ones fates the move has brought them little closure . phnom a counter sammy has just a few chickens to provide an income in sri lanka the elderly are usually looked after by extended family but her daughter's son in law and grandchildren have been missing since the end of the civil war when and then when had i known my son in law surrendered and just like many of the tamil separatists my daughter and 2

grandchildren went with him. the girl was to the boy was for them to this day we don't know where they are really and we're still searching for them. come to sami also lost 2 sons a bomb killed one of them the other was kidnapped there's no trace of his whereabouts. her husband has since become completely withdrawn he hasn't spoken in years. sri lanka's president got a buyer rajapaksa has declared all the missing persons from the civil war dead that means families will never know what happened to their relatives rajapaksa was defense minister during the final years of the war the un has accused him of serious human rights violations such as kidnapping and murder. the many. at a protest in the north of sri lanka these women are calling for justice to be served they say they've been ignored since the war ended

a decade ago. they belong to the tamil minority that fought for independence for nearly 30 years they're still looking for their missing children and their children's children. then an army bulldozer disrupts the protest and tries to disperse the crowds since june of last year sri lanka has offered compensation of nearly 30 year as a month for each missing person. silly m.p.'s oversees the payments for the government he says there are between 14 and 15000 missing people a number that the un strongly disputes but courts have yet to resolve a single case the law says if we feel the qualify and it is that a crime has been cut we did we can after soaking the families. for the rebels to the prosecuting authority because that's what sunday tried to do her husband

a journalist was kidnapped he remains missing to this day his is the only case to have been brought before a court and it was subsequently suspended the chief investigator fled to switzerland and 700 officials from his agency was suspended after president rajapaksa took office. this idea that my has been puggy thought was kidnapped twice the 1st time was in august of 2009 he said he uncovered the use of chemical weapons in sri lanka to carry out genocide. sanjaya it nelly go to stages exhibitions of her husband's drawings to honor his memory she hasn't heard anything from him in a decade there are no signs he's still alive. well there has been an alarming surge in the number of infections and deaths from the corona virus which scientists are now calling code vid 19 the number of infections worldwide has shot up 260000 after 15000 new cases a record in just one day japan has reported its 1st coded 19 death and the

epicenter of the outbreak china's hu bay province recorded more than 250 deaths on wednesday alone. our correspondent he has berlinger has more from beijing indeed a new reporting method the local authorities have decided to include patients who show clear symptoms of the virus no monia but. not tested positively for the virus into this statistics the reason is that many patients could not be tested be tested so far because there is a lack of laboratories and testing kits and that we are also hearing cases where people have tested negative lead. despite his symptoms at that point to the coronavirus infection i have spoken to some of them one woman told me that

a mother was suffering from says it was suffering severe lee could not be admitted into hospital because she tested negatively twice despite her symptoms and only the 3rd test was positive so hopefully this new method of. counting were. it also lead to more patients having a chance at proper treatment because they can be admitted to hospitals now it might also mean that the queues for the hospital beds would be longer and people people would still have to wait for that was what he is billing in their reporting from beijing health ministers here in the european union held an emergency meeting in brussels today to discuss europe's response to the outbreak corresponded spoke with germany's health minister yes spawn after that me. ministers which additional measures that europe does germany need to prevent the corona opec to devolve into

a real pandemic 1st of all what we do need isn't quite a net approach in europe and internationally and that is why we are very much engaged in coordinating within the european union like today within the council or within the g 7 that we have calls of the health minister for for example and what is important is actually that we prepare and that we try to retard to actually much as possible that the virus reaches other regions than china and is affecting it as much as it is china so far just regional epidemic outbreak in china but we need to be sure that it does not become a real epidemic drug wide and if so a pandemic worldwide if so we need to be prepared to regarding research around therapies and and vaccination we need to prepare to be appropriate in what we know about the wires every week we have to prepare helps us to know more about how an infectious that is actually how severe it can get for the patients and all of

these actions actually are focusing on this getting gaining time to know more do you seek to restrict travel from and to china as for example the united states did what we already have done in germany for example that we asked pilots that they need to tell the tower in advance if there are patient passengers was symptoms on board on board or not and that passengers actually have to fill out of form that says where they are reachable contact dates for the next 30 days we might need additional measures to know which passengers actually have been in contact with people from the one region 4 for example and that is actually one. we have discussed here during the council meeting but we do not need to by the way if i might add is from my point at least. measuring this for

example taking the temperature of person just because we just know because of the incubation time and the symptom free time we have after infection it actually doesn't help do you trust the numbers of infections you get from the communist regime in china well what we can see is actually that there. must be many more. cases than we actually do see in the in the public figures why because they just changed actually and the case definition for for the statistic that only a case goes into the statistic if there really were symptoms and we know that there are many many symptom free cases so i would assume that there are many more cases than we see in the statistic which is important because if you take the cases in relation to 5 sample people that died. that makes a difference then for the relation china on the other hand is able to apply very

draconian measures lockdown of whole cities but europe be able to do that if need be i would say i'm impressed by what china does and different regards actually. but what we see is if there is a missile outbreak in germany and missiles are much more infectious they're not b. c. with the coronavirus so far we actually i built to deal with a without putting whole cities on the current time when the worst be over. that's a good question if i knew the that actually our problem is that we don't know enough about the wire a step is why there is these. that there are so many measures actually that need to be taken to prepare as long as we don't know really what. what it does for example and how harmful it is and so far in europe and there with a new opinion detection and containment works we are able to to stop the infectious

chains. but we have to admit that's today and it could get worse before it becomes better because as long as it is not under control in china these regional epidemic situation can develop to worldwide pandemic situation. which thank you all the best. that was germany's health minister you had spahn speaking earlier today where despite recording a record high temperature there just a couple of weeks ago and arctic is vast freezing expanses well they're still there they still attracted by interest 30 years ago 2 germans completed the 1st crossing of the continent by foot in 100 days today trekking across the ice has become the business of what your tour operators. the and arctic with a different place when run hold mess 9 are good folks set out to make history in

temperatures of minus 35 degrees the 2 adventurers sometimes used kites and skis to cross the south pole marching through the icy expanse freezing cold feet were just one of the problems they faced. in those days the antarctic was truly hard to reach but things have changed a lot today there are top right is that a lot of business there. if you don't know that the. arrival at one of the world's most remote tourist destinations air travel now extends to the antarctic and planes ferry passengers to airstrips carved into the ice. distances that took messner and folks several weeks on foot now take only a few hours by air. private jets and luxury camps tourism here does not come cheap a week's holiday costs over $80000.00 euros per person day trips including

champagne picnics are also on offer. does he. like it when the toxic is just seen as a form of entertainment. just to say they've been there. is it to shoot appreciates this unique continent with its making efficient nature. these emperor penguins are tourists magnets more and more people visit their breeding grounds in the eternal winter. though travel to the white continent is comparatively cheap for a few $1000.00 tourists can admire the animal kingdom as they travel to the poll about $52000.00 tourists visited the antarctic last year these numbers are predicted to rise. stuff and. there has to be

a cap on the number of people visiting the antarctic mass tourism cannot be allowed their list so when messner and folks entered the record books by crossing the antarctic 30 years ago they travelled for 3 months without seeing another soul. and they didn't need $89000.00 all right football now coach you're going klinsmann abruptly resigned tuesday after just 2 months on the job since then the team and his former coach have taken turns making statements about each other to the media their relationship appears irreparably damaged. he was supposed to take eric to berlin to the champions league again clean's man came to the club as a member of the supervisory board and an adviser to the investor laws even tossed who injected over 224000000 euro's into their coffers but then 11 weeks ago klinsmann surprisingly got hired as hatch as new coach as they were mired in the

relegation battle the man who won the world cup with germany in 1990 and once coached the usa team was back in the bundesliga but this tuesday came another surprise when klinsmann announced his resignation on facebook. course the way i did it was questionable and open to criticism. i apologize. been tossed to the investor who had brought klinsmann to hair said in a news conference on thursday that what the coach had done was not acceptable professional behavior from an adult. novel. i also talked to mr clinton and by phone afterwards. he apologized like he's very sorry and i think he also he grants the decision. i think he was very emotional. klansmen said what he wanted was more power in his own hands

and less interference from hair to general manager michel plates. bug me and the manager was sitting there and making comments on the players you know now been tossed test thrown his support behind plates and he ruled out letting klinsmann remain on head to supervisory board or allowing him to have any further involvement with the club. well this is the w. news and these are our top stories german president. has used a speech during events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the destruction of dresden in world war 2 to urge germans to defend democracy the allied bombing campaign killed more than 25000 people and left the city in ruins. there's been a surge in the number of corona virus cases in china officials in who bay provinces say there were 15000 new cases and more than 250 deaths in

a single day experts attribute the rise to new methods of classifying the symptoms . european union health ministers have held an emergency session to discuss in brussels on how to prevent the spread of the corona virus only a few dozen cases have been recorded here in europe but the e.u. says a coordinated response is needed to keep the numbers look. british prime minister boris johnson has fired multiple ministers in a major cabinet reshuffle and in a surprise move finance minister shoddy job has announced his resignation british media say refused johnson's request to fire his own advisers. this is g.w. news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter or visit our website www dot com. you're watching the news up next our talk show to the point tonight we ask or will the a.f.d. far right party destroy. legacy i'll be back at the top of the hour with more of

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