ah, ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. germany remembers the victims of the nazi the, remember the ceremony takes place in germany, is parliament with a particular focus on those persecuted for their sexual orientation during the nazi era? also coming up,

israel retaliates to rock and fire from god. it's eric strikes, head militant targets amid rising tension. following and is rarely raised in the occupied wes back. and ukraine asks for fighter jets after successful petitions for tanks. key looks for air support to propel the russian invasion. ah. i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. the german parliament, the blender stock has held its annual ceremony of remembrance for the victims of the national socialist regime. an estimated 6000000 jews were murdered by the nazis during world war 2. other groups were also persecuted. now this year's ceremony focused on people targeted due to their sexual orientation or gender identity or

distant president obama has said that during the nazi regime, tens of thousands of people were imprisoned under laws that criminalized homosexuality from the victims and survivors of the holocaust. honored in speeches and his little beside me ah, the ceremony was also attended by members of germany's l g. b t q. community who shared their experiences. shonda taught shame, a mortal sin does in crimes. these were terms i heard and my not only from my parents spoke to, i built an illusory world around me. became muted lucille suffered from depression and even physical pain that seemed for decades. though minded papoulias leases, but my feelings could not be turned off or suppressed to nothing inside me,

i kept hold of a dream of a free and normal life. encouraged by years of act of as to work and bold role models and i decided late in life to finally come out as a gay man to tight the spot. this was the liberation, not the s, after which i felt for the 1st time that i was really me and attending the memorial service in the german parliament earlier on was dw correspondent hunter grant. i asked him what his impressions of the ceremony were is i think what's most impressive, this was a very simple, solemn occasion commemoration. not spectacular in any way. and yet still very deeply moving. and you could feel that in the audience, which was full as it really is here. and the bundle talk are in attendance. we're

also all the top representatives of the german state, the german president. for instance, if you have a transfer of charles and then there were special groups or visitors from the jewish community internationally, especially also from ukraine, jewish, jewish community from ukraine, and representative of the queer community as you mentioned. and of course, the diplomatic representatives that are normally here for such occasions and very large groups of young people because the one to talk to german parliament is trying to transmit the message of this communication also to a new generation. so a very solemn but very moving so that the ceremony and the ceremony had a special focus on those persecuted for their sexual orientation of gender identity . tell us a little bit more about that. yes, as today is the international holocaust remembrance day. in other words, remembrance of the 6000000 jews murder during nazi times. but they were also many

other groups that were persecuted by the nazis for, for various reasons. one of them were people who were persecuted for their sexual identity, homosexuals, for instance, or child transgender people. and this was a special, a phillip, it's a special ceremony to commemorate their suffering as well. and what was important about that is that the laws that were used during nazi times to persecute, for instance, queer men, continued to be in force after the end of the nazi era and germany well into the time of modern german of the modern german state. so that there is a sense of continuation from that times to to day and hands out for years and sexual minorities have been fighting for recognition. i want to have have a closer look. now d. w met with an activist from the queer community who is working for that class. it's the day lutes van dyke has been fighting for. in 2018,

the historian and teacher petitioned the bonus dog for the 1st time. his goal to get the highest political levels to recognize the persecution of queer people. the reason why we never gave up to have hold this recognition on the highest government liver would happen is not only because it has a brick meaning a strong meaning. important meaning. um for us, our minorities. but it means also that germany as a country has reached the level of humanity of democracy where different voices are heard in 2022 parliament finally decided to commemorate l g b t q victims of the nazi regime. male homosexuality was banned long before hitler came to power in 1933. but the nazis ramped up persecution. gay men were imprisoned and cent of concentration camps, where they had to where the pink triangle, around $10000.00 gay men were murdered. recent research on other queer people also

shows systematic persecution and legislation outlawing homosexuality and germany was only fully dropped in 1994. if i look back in my own life, when i was 14 um, the paragraph still existed and i grew up in a separate society where was criminal boy. if i were to have been on his in berlin van dyke meets for a discussion on why remembrance for sexual minorities has been such a struggle. both audience and panelists agree, research for many types of victims, remain scant. for van dyke, the battle is only getting started. i was sent to find the cheeseman and troop you encouragement to go on and to look in those to those countries where it's too dangerous. are life threatening to view sexual minority van dyke

will continue to fight argue and build coalitions because the struggle for remembrance and against persecution goes on and back with corresponding hands. brown hands. there were a number of speeches given, including one from a holocaust survivor and testimonies from others who suffered at the hands of the nazi regime. what stood out for you i think what's really important is how relevant all of these stories from more than 70 years, almost a 100 years ago, some of them off our school today, the holocaust survivor was rosette cuts woman who as a young baby was given by her jewish parents to a dutch family when her jewish parents were deported and later killed in auschwitz and she had to draw a parallel, it took her decades to acknowledge her jewish identity, and drew a parallel nod to the persecution of minorities today,

including people who are being still discriminated against across the world for their sexual identity. and then there were 2 testimonies. read by actors of a lesbian woman and a gay man for their experiences during the nazi times and really are moving. was that these stories that are so old that took place such a long time ago still remained shocking to the stay. and i think that was the point that these stories should not be forgotten that we should listen to them. and that we should draw lessons from them for to day t w. political correspondent, hands brought standing by for us in the german bunder style where the ceremony of remembrance for the victims of national socialism has just concluded. hands. thank you for your reporting on this day. 78 years ago, soviet forces liberated the nazi death camp at auschwitz. it now operates as

a museum, which aims to ensure the atrocities of the holocaust are never forgot. and a group of filmmakers are using virtual reality technology to support that work. a virtual reality with a powerful message. these movie goers in central jerusalem a being taken on a confronting journey the brain child and 3 young israeli filmmakers who felt this new technology will help kick the past from slipping away . the 1st thing we said is, let's take this technology and bring this emotional, super powerful experience to so many people who cannot go. we understood that with this technology. we can read, you know, put life in, hit enter, history, the history of our transfer canal, for example. as seen in one of these head sits for years now, in israel,

a concern has been growing how to maintain awareness of the holocaust as its last survivors disappear. sarah and shlomo hardly needed a reminder, they escape and not the extermination plan is children. with quote this, after we watched it, we couldn't sleep that night after we saw it all the emotions flooded in to see what we was saying for all my money. does it come with me? a scale of it bis industry of sarah and her family were on a train, headed for outfits when their fate took a different turn. me see me shall my, am she miracles from above? bombed the railway a lot. so instead we were taken to a walk camp, and this is a myra co from god that we managed to escape this hell feel that we didn't. den delta the we survive obama and bill to family ha.

for the developers building the experience is an act of remembrance, you know, and i feel after the survivors, after all, over the survivors, i watch this movie, i feel that day feel and they know that they can leave this world and we're not gonna forget them. immersive nature of this technology makes for a very powerful and intimate experience. developers hope that it will also resonate with young audiences like this one is the same replied. not just here in israel, but around the world to help keep the memory of the holocaust alive for future generations. and now we turn to some other stories making headlines. a gas explosion has destroyed a 4 story house in southern poland, injuring 7 people. 2 children were among those pulled from the rubble. the cause of

the incident is unknown, but authority say that it was likely sparked by 8 gas fire. azerbaijan has evacuated its embassy in iran after a shooter opened fire on the building during the embassy security chief. 2 other guards were injured before the attacker was dude, as if by chance, president announced the attack as an act of terrorism and demanded an investigation . injury us authorities have charged 5 police officers with murder over the death of a black man of time. tyrene nichols died in a memphis hospital earlier this month. after being beatrice during a traffic stop by the officers have been charged with 2nd degree murder. they were all removed from duty last week. residents in oakland have been forced to evacuate after heavy storms caused major flooding across suzy lands. north island rescue services battled through chest high waters to reach people trapped by the floods. severe weather warnings are in place as to rental rains. continue to batter,

the israel's military says that it has carried out air strikes on militant targets and gaza. the strikes gum hours after rockets were launched from the palestinian territory. israel says most of the rockets were intercepted by the iron dome air defense system. no casualties have been reported on either side. the escalation comes after the israeli military conducted a deadly raid in the west bank city of janine. the palestinian authority says 9 people were killed in that operation, which israel says was intended to thwart an imminent attack. palestinians blocked the streets of janine to bury their dead. they say one of the victims was a 60 year old woman. this video released by his real shows, troops moving in on a house in the janine refugee camp and a rare daytime raid. israel said the house was being used by suspected militants

plotting an attack against israelis. this is what was left of the home after the military said it detonated explosives being used by the suspects the 3 hour rate is being described as the deadliest israeli operation in the west bank. into decades. the janine refugee camp is considered a stronghold for the militant palestinian organisation islamic jihad, islamic jihad is designated as a terrorist organization by the you. one of the groups leaders bout defiance after the raid or resistance will carry on. we will not back down from confronting the occupier. we will not be intimidated by only the raid quickly triggered palestinian protests and clashes with israeli police. israel's by right national security minister praised the mission and reiterated that troops had the government's full backing. it was invalid. i want to congratulate the anti

terrorism forces. the shin bet, yes. who carried out a successful operation last night that we support a soldiers in the war against terrorists against the militancy neg of them hugley. israel has put its forces on heightened alert bearing more attacks. palestinian anger has been on the rise since israel's new governing coalition. the most far right ever took power last month. u. s. secretary of state antony blink, and is due to visit both israel and the palestinian territories next week in a bid to help deescalate tensions i asked sammy, sulkily, freelance, journalist, interracial and there are any signs that tensions are easing now after this flare up of violence between israel and the palestinian territories. indeed he do see the size, but i continued as a lot of anger on the palestinian side. the palace, things are calling the event a yesterday and you need

a massacre of palestine authority as a now 3 days of morning at to day we had the a funeral of the palestinian news kill yesterday in the romanella area in the town of alarm, we saw a very big sooner and people were quoting, so revenge. and they were expecting more from the if factions in the gaza strip. and we've seen from the gaza, strippers. 10 rockets being launch and there were some of them intercepted. some of them were landing in clear area, so the cause no damage, and then we saw these riley response and a because there were no casualties on both sides. it seems that after all were entering towards a quiet period now, it today has been also relatively calm. and there has been anger, but we haven't seen any casualties. we will say if that that holds. but in the meantime, the palestinian authority says it has halted security cooperation with israeli authorities. what, what consequences could that have?

well, a indeed when the palestinian authority stops and will stop this kind of quarter nation. this means that it will be more difficult for his road to thwart attacks that are planned by militants in the west bank. this means that israel will have to have more forces in the west bank. and this of course is the formula for more friction between israelis and palestinians. i can tell you that on these early side, there is a hope that this coordination will come back there saying that this coordination will come back slowly, slowly because it is in the interest of both israel and the palestinian authority. how can israel's new har line far right? government affect the israeli palestinian relations in the future? i could tell you that already today we've heard very strong statements from members of the coalition. who think that the israeli strikes in the gaza strip weren't

powerful enough. they want to see palestinians being killed in gaza and they're very open about that. they're saying that the israeli response today was similar to previous governments responses. and they're saying that we're a new government and we have to have a new policy with 0 tolerance stores, any kind of rocket that's launch from the gaza strip. they of course, also want to intensify the settlements in the west bank and they want to visit the elect so most compound, no to jews as temple mount. so differently. we have elements within this government that are trying to push towards an escalation. emma caught the other hand. we have a prime minister netanyahu and the minister of defense who might be able to keep the situation as is sammy so called freelance journalist and to wrestle him. in other news, ukrainian president followed. amir zalinski has renewed his appeal for

u. s built at 16 fighter chats, less than a week after securing heavy tanks from western backers. poland says that it would support a nato effort to send the jets to ukraine. now, officials from france and the u. s. say they have not ruled out the auction, but german chancellor, olaf schultz has drawn a red line over supplying keith with combat aircraft. i asked a fence analyst marina myron, from the war studies department at king's college london. if she expects the lensky to get the fighter jets and missiles he is asking for, it's quite a difficult question now, after supplying or agreeing to supplies the pangs and rushes reaction diplomatically. i see it as a very challenging task. because well, 1st of all, we don't know how russia will react to the tank deliveries. and the 2nd thing we also have to think about when those aircraft would reach ukraine. and that would

mean that there would have to be some sort of major involvement because it will take a long time to train the pilots to operate even something like an app 16 which is not as sophisticated. the apps are the 5, and obviously the fighter jets would be vulnerable to russian, a ground based air defense systems. so that's another issue we're facing. and we also have the crews that are important. it's not just a pilot. we have to train entire crews. so how long will it take a year or 2 years? and another question is, where will those planes be fielded in ukraine? that would mean that there will need to be engineers trained or offend to ukraine to do the maintenance to an sustainment of the airplane. so there are all sorts of issues. i thought it was ok, i mean, it's highly speculative at this point because we know that no country has agreed to send those. but we had the announcement of the past week that tanks are heading

toward ukraine. so tell us about the logistical challenges that that now poses for the ukrainians and their partners in terms of logistics or will need to be new. a supply lines established for each of those 3 very unself tanks, including a fuel. for instance, the abrams tank uses jack fueled as opposed to a diesel that is used by the lab for 2. then they all use different types of ammunition. abrams, we'll need to put depleted uranium rounds, the challenger to has the so called hash rounds and the 120 millimeter. he drones for is elaborate. so there is quite a lot of logistical foot friends at us and wove than this whole thing as a training aside. and so that it will create

a very happy logistical footprint to fields those tanks there. the 3 kinds of tanks in ukraine and, you know, i, i believe it will take 2 to 3 months to deal just was a logistics. how about the fear of escalation? because we've heard russia come out and basically say that this is indeed what they see as a provocation. are. are you concerned about the potential that ukraine's partners might be now seen as direct parties to the conflict? i think russia has been receiving ukraine's partners as parties to the conflict for a while now. so this would be nothing new. ah, we might see more nuclear rhetoric being used by the kremlin. but i think every, we're all expecting some sort of escalation on the battlefield. however, i think we have to look at a little bit as a broader picture and it shows diplomatic efforts to secure allies and to secure support to counterbalance the west. so i think the response,

the oral response will be much more nuanced and is planned for a long term rises. i'm kind of a short escalation on the battlefield, which might still take place. marina myron, from the war studies department at kings college london. thank you. thank you very much. and with a renewed russian offensive expected in the spring cave is considering its options . us advisors are suggesting ukraine moves its focus away from the besieged city of buck, mood, and uses new weapons to fight on the se in front line. but for president volota, mayor zalinski, and those still holding out in back loot that decision is not an easy 1. 1 for nearly 6 months now, russia has waged a brutal battle to take the city of bar moot. and so far failed. but at a heavy cost to ukraine, why this makeshift cemetery on the outskirts of the city shows the scale of the

loss. but mute is located between don't yet and the hands get the edge of the frontline and the don't bass region. a victory there could give russia a base to launch a campaign further west, who would also be a blow to ukrainian morale. zalinski said the fighting there was key to the war. couldn't get it hooked up every day. the enemy fails on the buff mood front, and in don't boss in general, is a significant blow to the aggressor state highway, aggressor, u. s. advisors to ukraine. see that it's not worth the cost and ukrainian lives. russia has already shelled the city to rubble, leaving little to defend but assemble. the u. s. is recommending ukraine shift its focus to the south where western deliveries of armored vehicles could set up kia for renewed counter offensive. the city of her son was recaptured by ukraine in november, and russia has ramped up pressure this winter across the southern frontline, ascii of looks towards spring and expecting

a large russian offensive with the possible mobilization of thousands of new invading troops. nato said weapons deliveries will help ukraine prepare. and russia is planning for new offences. they are building heavily opt to mobilize hundreds and thousands of new troops ramping production, acquiring ammunition from all to the new seems like wrong, north korea and, and, and therefore, we have to be prepared for a new russian offensive. that's exactly why denouncement made last week are so important. amal, when more are more, more ammunition is more also long range. weapons like to high mars, but also the new announcements of boucher thanks. the u. s. defense department says it's unlikely russia can turn around its failures anytime soon. but it also says ukraine cannot expect ticket bell russia from the don't bass. by the end of this year. quick reminder of our top stories. the german parliament has held its annual

tribute to victims who suffered at the hands of the nazi regime. this year is emphasis was on those persecuted for their sexual orientation or gender identity. up next on d, w. news asia transitioning took, took in thailand, how bangkok, popular mode of transport is going electric and abused animals and pakistan come in for a rough ride as living costs sword. my colleague, melissa chad has those stories and a whole lot more after a very short break. i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thank you so much for watching. take care in with

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