all kind and let's get more we are joined by dee w.'s chief political correspondent melinda craned belinda 76 years ago auschwitz liberated what meaning did the ceremony have today in the broadest talk well this is the 25th time that this commemoration has been held and quite simply its meaning is to remember the horrors of the holocaust as a 1st crucial step to ensuring that those horrors will not be repeated so as you mentioned this year the theme is 1700 years of jewish life in germany and that is a reminder especially to right wing nationalists who reject judaism as ili and the jews in fact have been here far longer than germany has been a nation state and this ceremony takes place at a moment of some urgency when as the president of the buddhist put it anti-semitism is once again rearing its ugly head as we also just heard from so

a lot to connote love the president of the bundestag refer to this commemoration as an opportunity to renew germany's commitment to protect its jewish citizens and in fact there is much that they need to be protected from as we heard from all of the speakers who addressed the one to start today and it's also worth noting melinda that there were of course a lot of hiring german officials that took part in the commemorations listening to the messages of these speakers walk us through them a little bit more. well a consistent message focused on the ambivalence of jewish life in germany today a diverse flourishing jewish community as was described by 2 of the speakers that at the same time is subject to threats and insults that feels fear and that longs for a normal see it doesn't have so the 88 year old head of the munich chewers community shot to cannot go home free we heard from a moment ago she talked about her lifelong mission to try to translate coexistence

into togetherness and both she and marina vice bond a young jewish immigrant to germany talked about the fact that the fight against hatred is an ongoing process so let's quickly hear salata cannot be stark warning that that process needs to begin with an effort to root out the hateful words that preceded actions this you know i mean obviously the issue of anti-semitism is bigger than what appears on the surface you know if you want to get to the root of hatred against jews you have to get to where it hurts. even at the heart of society . even where acceptance of democratic values has been rejected even where intolerance has been allowed to brew for too long under the guise of tolerance ski and. linda sure logic knoblock had a very very strong message for the far right allocations who were present at the

bundestag today. indeed she did at the end of her remarks she spoke quite directly to the right wing party the a.f.d. saying quote i won't hide the fact that i am disturbed you're sitting here and while she was saying that we could actually see the head of that party who at one time had said that the holocaust simply represents 12 years in a long glorious german history and in that way was a kid into a small piece of bird dung she left a canal block went on to say to them we will fight for our germany but i know you will also fight for you yours but perhaps some of you are unaware of the footsteps you follow in the fact is you lost your fight 76 years ago very powerful words there to the a.f.d. party absolutely chief political correspondent melinda crane walking us through the ceremony which has taken place today various events happening around the world

we also have to mention on this international holocaust remembrance day. well it's a sad fact that every year that passes there are fewer and fewer holocaust survivor still alive to tell their story one man who survived the auschwitz concentration camps spoke with about his experience and about the importance of never forgetting . peter you hancox had a sheltered childhood in a jewish family in transylvania. but it suddenly ended when he was 13 years old and so that's. the germans occupied transylvania 1944. a short time later we were deported to auschwitz my entire family was murdered there are various coincidences or i can also say with god's help i stayed alive. his sister and mother were

immediately killed in the auschwitz gas chambers. pretended he was older and was sent to various concentration camps for forced labor. for the persecution of the jews and that year in auschwitz. and cal furthering might have hardened or non me emotionally. so that i was no longer able to react to things as a normal person would. shortly before liberation got off managed to escape he later went to university built a career and started a family. with. the my wife and i lived together for 7 years before we got married. and i never talked about my past with her. sometimes i feel as if it were sunk in concrete.

this is a. mansion. in segments. but now it is important for him to talk about it and about anti semitism today that worries the 19 year old very much. store was sawing grape fruit from south america and israel a grapefruit from java i bought the ones from java not out of jewish solidarity but because they are better they taste better the lady behind me said don't buy from jews. regrets that he can no longer go into schools as a contemporary witness due to the pandemic talking to young people brought him much joy. in school i'm 90 now there aren't many survivors of my age left and i guess none of us will be left in 20 years or so it's good if it's recognised in schools and history books who will meet with. the wounded but you can't make the

young generation and the next young generation and the one that follows them all responsible for these together. you can't do that all you can say is never forget the. words of a holocaust survivor on this holocaust remembrance day in other news russia's lower house of parliament has approved the extension of the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the us the state duma voted unanimously to extend the new start treaty for 5 years the vote came a day after u.s. president joe biden and his russian counterpart vladimir putin reached a deal. and we're joined by correspondents emily sherwood in moscow and nato expert teri schultz in brussels welcome to both of you terry russia and the u.s. as you've mentioned have agreed to extend the new start nuclear arms control treaty what does it tell you that extension about the russian and the u.s.

defense strategies well sarah what it tells us is that the u.s. russian relationship remains constant in some ways dating back in fact to the u.s. soviet relationship and that is that whether things are going well as they have in some periods between washington and moscow or poorly as most people would say they are right now both sides acknowledge that you do not use your nuclear arsenals for leverage on other issues and so while arms control advocates and the biden ministration will no doubt be pleased that the russian duma acted so quickly to approve the extension this was basically a win win for both sides and it is in fact what most experts expected to happen and president biden has been methodically careful to let everyone know that he has very real concerns with russia on other issues and that he's not going to let this slide so i predict a very rocky relationship ahead between presidents biden and putin and really i'm

wondering if you will agree with that and perhaps you can give us the view there from russia and tell us how putin is likely to get along with president biden. well i think russian officials from the beginning never had any illusions or high hopes about the biden administration and about kind of relations between the u.s. and russia improving under joe biden i think in a way there are low expectations were kind of confirmed yesterday in that telephone call between biden and putin where apparently biden confronted putin over hacking accusations he talked to him about the poisoning of opposition politician alex in our viny and about the conflict in ukraine sort of demonstrating i think from the beginning that he wants to be tough on human rights issues for example and i think that was to be expected from the russian side they knew that was coming but in a way i think the biden and ministrations surprisingly enough will be in some ways

easier to deal with for the russians more predictable they stick to the rules and this extension of the new start treaty shows that in a way shows that biden is willing to keep to treaties trump here was known as kind of a bull in the china shop of international relations leaving treaties left and right and he in a way was a huge disappointment i think to the russians biden will be tough but easier to deal with and more predictable for the russians i think in some ways emily sure when with the view from moscow teri schultz joining us from brussels thank you to both of you. let's have a look at some other headlines from around the world the chinese government says that it flew warplanes near taiwan last weekend as a warning against foreign interference and separatist forces on the island taiwan scrambled to military fighters to monitor chinese aircraft in the air defense identification zone on saturday and sunday he. at least 53 people were

killed when a passenger bus collided with a fuel truck in western cameroon authorities say that dozens of others were injured in the crash near the town of discharge now both vehicles caught fire nearly 30 people are being treated for burns in nearby hospitals. the united nations says that psycho nellie's affected a quarter of a 1000000 people in the mozambique port city of vera and surrounding regions after making landfall last weekend the powerful storm brought to rental rain and strong winds of up to 160 kilometers per hour destroying houses farmland and vital infrastructure. the netherlands has seen a 4th consecutive night of protests against coronavirus lockdown measures although the latest on her arrest was more isolated than on previously it's the country's 1st curfew since world war 2 came into effect on saturday as a precaution against the new virus strain from the u.k.

. the c.e.o. of pharmaceutical company astra zeneca has told media that the firm is not legally tied to a certain delivery timeline when it comes to the cove in $1000.00 vaccine his comments come after the british swedish company announced a cut in supplies to the e.u. in the 1st quarter the european commission has publicly expressed frustration at the company over the hold up. he did his game of mattison standing by with a view from brussels they actually sent a boss as we've just heard they're going on the offense and saying that it's the e.u.'s fault they signed the deal too late how is brussels reacting sara the e.u. contests that explanation they're also a rather unhappy about a supposed contract where by its illegally astra zeneca is apparently apply church that anything that is produced in the u.k. is then supplied to the u.k.

from the perspective of the european union astra zeneca is a close company if they face a supply chain problems be it in the u.k. be it in europe or in india for instance then everybody should carry that burden and it can't be that it's only the european union that then faces the consequences that's unfair that's what processes need time the e.u. commission officials they were due to hold their 3rd crisis meeting with astra zeneca this evening it was then apparently canceled now it seems to be back on again that's going on well now it appears this meeting takes place and that's quite important because the e.u. has pressing questions for instance regarding the contract the legal contract that for the moment still is confidential there are voices here that it should be made public because the key there's a key rao over a clause in there whether this is really to deliver $80000000.00 doses of the

vaccine in the 1st quarter of the year or whether they can reduce that amount to the proposed $31000000.00 the question is is that illegal commitment or is that as the c.e.o. of astra zeneca put it just the best practice promise that they will try to reach that and many here in brussels would like to see the paper in detail to verify which of the 2 is true. the european medicines agency expected to issue regulatory approval for the vaccine on friday we also have to mention but there's been some questions in the meantime regarding efficacy in older patients what more can you tell us about that. some of the data is so coming in as we speak from astra zeneca what is quite interesting is that in the trials there were not a lot of old people participating brinson if you look at the age group of 70 year olds there's just 23 percent 65 year olds 8 percent so there's not

a lot of substance here so it could be that the european medical agency just recommends a conditional market authorization for that particular age group but we really have to see until friday what they will make of it mantis with a few from brussels thank you germany recorded over 13200 new coronavirus cases on wednesday a slight drop compared to the same day last week germany's disease control agency says that daily infection numbers are steadily decreasing but the situation remains serious outbreaks are still being reported across the country particularly in nursing homes and care homes and the death rate remains very high within $182.00 deaths registered in the last 24 hour period. so physical distancing medical mask wearing and a social life that has largely been consigned to the virtual world when the 1st

coronavirus case was detected in germany one year ago all the few people could predict what a huge impact it would have on their lives of how to look back now at how the pen demick unfolded here. jeremy 1st came across 1000 here at the offices of this automotive supplier in bavaria it's where 33 year old employee caught the novel virus from a coworker who had traveled to germany from china he became patient number one. german officials were quick to assure the public the country was taking the virus seriously but that there was also no cause for alarm. health minister yang spahn told the public there's no need for exaggerated concern and. if this kind orange is the world health organization echoed this with calls for simple measures like more hand washing self protection is still the best possible way we can go

about this but infections spread to every region in germany contact tracing became impossible. germany's hold on the virus gave way to the free spread of covert 19 and. then just 6 weeks after the 1st case was discovered in germany announced the closing of schools by the end of march a nationwide lockdown meant the workplace and the school day had to compete for attention in homes across the country. the bulk of people in germany seemed to take the restrictions in stride and agree with them with the budding spring germany slowly started opening up again. but by the start of me nearly 7000 people in germany had died. meanwhile elsewhere in europe the numbers range from more than 24000 to over 28000 deaths.

in comparison with many european neighbors germany appeared to have weathered the height of the crisis fairly well. many people enjoyed the warm summer months. but then fall arrived and cases began to rise again. by november a so-called lockdown light was in place despite both calls for stricter measures. as well as protests against them. but the many locked down didn't work cases rosa de lauro ming rates with more and more patients needing intensive care. by the christmas holidays restrictions had been tightened again and after the new year schools and shops remain shut. the latest extension of germany's lockdown will continue through february 14th.

and the government is considering additional radical steps to slow the spread of cova 19 including cutting international air traffic to germany to near 0 the arrival of new more infectious variants of the virus in the country is feeling concerns at a time when the rollout of vaccines is slower than expected and patrick sense berg is a member of the german parliament for the christian democrats the c.d.u. earlier he told the w. that limiting air travel was just one of the additional measures under consideration. before we talk about reducing our travel we talk about more tests when you arrive in germany right now you can come from countries like egypt dubai was out having a test when you were landing in germany this was the measures that come before the discussion of reducing our air travel but i think in this situation we have to talk about mandatory tests when you arrive not bringing a document with you that you have been tested before you had to be tested when you arrive in germany and parents you know should be controlled more but this is

a big task because many many people come to germany and to control these people if their own home current you know is quite sick and now we're discussing if we need more measures in at traveling testing when you arrive better control of the home current you know i think that's a discussion now discussion is not bringing our travel down to 0 here's a look at some other developments in the pandemic the number of covert cases worldwide has now surpassed 100000000 that's according to johns hopkins university amid a drop in new cases moscow is easing its covert restrictions by allowing bars restaurants and night to remain open through the night and a chinese woman has been sentenced to one year in prison for hiding her virus symptoms before boarding a flight from the u.s. to china last march she took medication to suppress a fever. it's english club chelsea have confirmed thomas truthful as their new coach he signed an 18 month contract with the london club to fill is the latest

german coach to try his luck in the premier league so what can tell sea expect from their new man well we take a look at to his career which is very much made in germany. thomas took over likes to do things his way the german coaches tactical accu men 1st became apparent at lowly bundesliga side months with his unique football philosophy he earns the nickname wrong breaker. will still sport this is to question as the guns for clue broke up thinking patterns and sport structure is very old fashioned thinking pattern that's a present across germany in our 1st season in the bonus league or we played with different systems and that's attention to detail went as far as making the team all eat together. is the 1st thing to feed on the women's league up you have to imagine a buffet for abundance league team has its own rules from different soups and poultry to grilled fish and 3 kinds of desserts before i could even finish the see

part of the team and already gone. circle cemented minds his place in the bundesliga before following in the footsteps of yogen clawfoot school friends he led them to the german cop in 2017 thanks to his brand of attacking football it's unlike clarke circle was unable to win the league with dorman's he was sacked but picked up his career in paris which star studded p.s.g. mortuary freeze followed but the one they really wanted the champions league eluded them that sold so many cost so called his job now a new challenge to whites in england. and now to a zoo in the peruvian capital lima which has some good news to newborn endangered american crocodiles also known as to base crocodile. these 2 beauties weigh 45 grams and measure $35.00 centimeters each but can grow up to become several meters

long this is the 1st time that zookeepers in latin america have managed to successfully breed this type of endangered crocodile after artificially cubase in the crocodile hatchlings were born in mid january and are the only ones to survive of the $24.00 eggs laid by their mother. a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you here on news the german parliament has paid homage to the victims of naziism and other genocides on holocaust remembrance day other ceremonies are taking place around the world with an emphasis on the importance of being vigilant against the rise of hatred. and up next on g.w. the chinese city that was safe was a safe haven for europe's jews during world war 2 and indian filmmakers go dark as netflix and amazon offer them a gritter palette. the afghan woman training for ana lympics sport that has been all about

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