diminish santa most him. dozens of world leaders and dignitaries are in jerusalem for a holocaust commemoration in what will be israel's largest ever diplomatic defense the gathering comes just ahead of the 75th anniversary of the read on the reading i switch from this nazi death camp we spoke to a holocaust survivor. the i will never forget to every morning i look at my hands and see. i have the number here and i see it every day the time.

despite the remembrance event in israel being aimed at you nice seeing nations in the face of tragedy the leader of poland will not be in attendance after a dispute with russia holocaust survivors say it's vital not to distort and politicize the past. no liberation they really say that without the red army there would be no me my mother or other prisoners. also ahead on the program this hour from china to europe washington is on the brink of another global trade war as the e.u. threatens to slap a so-called digital tax on us to. respond with proposed plans to sanction the block's trait.

just approaching it 2 minutes past 8 pm here in moscow this thursday january the 23rd welcome wherever you're tuning in from i mean in the new. dozens of world leaders dignitaries have gathered in jerusalem to commemorate the holocaust and bring attention to a rising wave of on t. semitism it is time to mark the 75th anniversary of solving it forces liberating us which the infamous death camp in nazi occupied poland. my dear family i'm writing this letter before my death i don't know exactly when me and my relatives are going to die just because we're jews i'm in a concentration camp before all of us will be shot in a shelter thursday 4 am 16942 very well to you all.

but i am barack. the other thing i wanted to tell you was that i had several jobs in birkenau in auschwitz one of the jobs was clearing the ashes from where they bug juice through a tunnel into a small river. i worked there together with another guy who was already old he was 32 and i was 16. i didn't know what these ashes were. one day when i saw it in daylight i asked. what is the job we're doing so he told me what it was. not me. blush and i've never forget it every morning i look at my hands and see well i have the number here and i see it every day at

a time in. well they certainly are the holocaust memorial form is ongoing right now with world leaders giving speeches about the importance of remembering the horrors of what happened. the international orchestra of world were nonconductor of loving mirrors of coffins playing there israel has found the red army for its role in the victory over

a nazi ism while in his address president putin described the holocaust as one of the darkest moments the world has ever seen. it but your school. before my visit to drusilla i looked through the official documents and reports of red army offices after the liberation of auschwitz concentration camp i must say dick colleagues it was impossible to read the details of how the merciless machine of people extermination worked these crimes conducted by the nazis were deliberate and well planned what they called their resolution of the jewish issue is one of the darkest emotion full pages in modern world history israel is hosting its largest if the international forum more than 45 world leaders are here in jerusalem attending the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz now amongst those who addressed the crowd was the russian president vladimir putin he said it was the soviet army who brought to an end the crimes of the nazis but that it came at such

a huge price some say some $27000000.00 soviet citizens who had died at the same time he said that russia stands for truth and justice i mean vita those countries of the world who have held those valleys to stand alongside with that he proposed to me shin of the payment and members of the un security council to be held this year and he offered russia. the host country to deal with these kind of issues and make sure that such horrendous atrocities did not happen again and yes. first of all it was the soviet people who ended the barbaric plans of the nazis as it's been already mentioned here they predicted their own land and liberated europe from naziism we paid for this with the price that had never come in the worst nightmares of any nation 27000000 people killed we will never forget this. but despite a 2nd says there are those who do not see the soviet union as a liberator in a somewhat damning opinion a piece of the polish prime minister say that russia was not

a liberator but had actually condoned and assisted nazi germany now the polish president declined his invitation to attend the ceremony because he was not afforded the opportunity to speak likewise the russian president and others the official organizer you have a shame say that he had been asked to speak at a separate event the russian ministry of foreign affairs has come up quite strongly against the canes made by the polish media is saying that they are essentially rewriting history and that it's a known fact that russia was the army in the country responsible for liberation both auschwitz and poland and the israeli foreign minister agrees. i want to personally thank you for the fact that the red army freed outfits and helped in the victory over the nazis because my mother was one of those detained and was liberated by the red army relatives of those liberated from the camp know who freed them the israeli president has said that the history of the 2nd world war and the

holocaust should be lifted historians one moring statistic to come forward is the fact that a large number of youngsters have had seen the show or know very little about the 2nd world war auschwitz and the holocaust caught up with it in here in israel who are trying to change that from the ashes of the auschwitz concentration camp emerged to woods never again. through the generations as warning in a few days when it comes from members day will be commemorated around the world the tragedy of $6000000.00 jews who were tortured to gassed and burnt in concentration camps will be remembered but for how much longer according to recent reports as many as 66 percent of millennial cannot identify auschwitz and almost hoffa cannot even name one concentration. some don't even know what the holocaust was these be multiple cases of people disrespecting concentration camps with the sophies something that so people named and shamed by the controversial your new cast

project increasing needs falling on the younger generation to make sure the atrocities of the holocaust are not forgotten like it is going over its whose grandfather was a survivor outreach by recent studies showing the ignorance of 1000000 meals he set up a project called humans of the holocaust and what i'm trying to do this project is actually you know to go on for and to better educate people about what happened in the holocaust and i'm trying to do it in a different angle trying to because we're speaking about me or anyone else you know today you have twitter and you have instagram and you have tick tock and you have so much information flow and you have to get the attention of the young generation humans of the holocaust is a project that tells the stories of survivors and the children who speak about the years in camps and how they lived with this experience off towards some young people have come up with unusual ways of remembering maybe a little of my grandfather was a hero for me he was a very very big part in my life from when i was

a baby i asked him before i did that he asked why why young girl like you want to do number of holocaust in your head i taught him that i want to keep the story alive to tell my kids to tell my grandkids don't they could move its ones to expand his project with more human stories so the would we remember and never forget i would you for example add there is a holocaust survivor named google like you know he told me that the only thing that actually kept him going while he was in the holocaust was a sense of humor and he suggested we will take a speech or holding a yellow boom in the shape of the yellow badge the jews were forced to put on their sleeves. during the holocaust and in the beginning i wasn't sure that this is exactly that picture that i want to portray you know in this exhibition that when we took the picture and when he actually you know to the moon we actually embraced

it and he was so happy he had the this huge smile the space you know everything connected because his message is that is no matter what is happening actually in your life if you will to use your sense of humor you will find the resilience to actually you know to keep forward i'm sure stories that people will be able to actually to relate to and my hope is that you know the people you know with it will see that exhibition they will do their own research and it will try to figure out why the holocaust happened and what are the lessons that we're all supposed to learn from you know from the history. of running during which. on monday poland will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the ice which death camp the following is a story of a man who survived the horrors there. was actually born in the concentration camp

and managed to survive along with his mother we spoke with him about the liberation of ice which. people tell us but there was no liberation they say so if there was no red army then there wouldn't be me or other prisoners oh my mother i have never questioned the merits of these soldiers i have always been grateful the prime minister and the president criticized the red army equally it was the same under the previous authorities know the admit there was a liberation of auschwitz but at the same time they say there was no liberation of war so recall that the 2nd occupation. was liberated but that was so and other cities were not i don't know maybe the americans liberated them. but it's a pleasure to welcome onto the program now dr frame 0 from the jewish human rights organization the seam on vice and center good to see you and firstly a from what does this anniversary mean to. me. first of all i think it's

a very symbolic date because our stewards has become an icon of probably the most prominent icon of the history of the holocaust and sometimes when you want to relate to the holocaust and you have to choose one photograph it's very often the gates of the auschwitz birkenau death camp the most lethal death camp in the course of the holocaust where 1300000 people were murdered among them 1100000 jews. we have seen a lot of politicizing of this events and the polish president has refused to. and a lot of her putin got a chance to speak and he did not what are your thoughts on the. it's very disturbing that he wasn't given a chance to speak and it's even more disturbing that an event like this which is

a very significant event in the hopefully significant in the fight against anti-semitism will be politicized we have also seen attempts to save the soviet union was a facilitator of nazi germany russia house already called it rewriting history how would you respond to the very. first of all this is a very serious problem of rewriting history in eastern europe and there is practically every single country in the post communist world has chosen to try and rewrite the narrative of world war 2 and the how was so this is this is a very serious problem because the holocaust has become so important that the way it's presented reflects the national legacies of all of these countries and every one of these countries wants to appear in the most positive light when in effect

each one has its flaws each one has its collaborate is this is a very serious problem that we have to confront why do you think it is happening like that. 1st of all ironically i would say to you that this is a proof of the success of the people who have devoted so much of their lives to teaching about the holocaust recording the holocaust preparing the materials that prove the holocaust and making them accessible in museums and archives and the like and it's clear that the holocaust is generous a unique case of genocide the worst case of genocide in human history and consequently its importance the dots over they read armies rolling liberating ice which have been heard in the countries that you were alluding to there in eastern

europe we have seen the relatives who are seeing victims of the holocaust thanking russia and the red army for their liberation including israel's foreign minister do you think that this is going to go the structure of trying to to rewrite history in such a particular way and taking the red army art of it. first of all this is a classic case of distortion of history if you try and deny the not only the fact that those who read me liberated auschwitz but the incredibly enormous role played by the red army in the defeat of nazi ism the other hand you can understand why people who were liberated from the nazis but later had to had to endure a soviet system don't feel that they were really liberated. just one other aspect of the commemoration the matter of iran from was tackled by

american vice president mike pence while he was speaking at the event do you believe it's such. a proper venue for an address like that. i want to say that i was very pleased to hear the comments by vice president pence about iran simon wiesenthal always said that if people jewish people who endure a genocide can never ignore threats of another genocide iran is openly speaking about the elimination of the state of israel and they plan to do it by killing all the jews here so i don't understand how the other countries of the world are not taking this as seriously as they should why wasn't i read thrown out of the un why does russia cooperate with iran to have

a joint naval exercise a couple of weeks ago these people told don't think for a minute that these people don't need it. this is one thing that we learned from hitler hitler made clear his intentions and he actually tried to implement his plan of the final solution the jewish people iran is talking about the same thing luckily iran doesn't have the capabilities of nazi germany at least not yet but in this world where all you need is a nuclear device to create destruction of millions of people millions of people i would take iran much more seriously ok and i in that vein i would say to you that the speech by the german president was was lovely words but a picture that i see of the german foreign minister in tehran with zarif makes me worry at night ok the thoughts of dr a frame from the jewish human rights organization the cmon face intel center thank

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tech reporting live from paris. not being is a beethoven for me idea is give a little here get a lot that for global companies it's often a direct line to the heart of power for generations boozy lunches were once the fashion but now it seems did still joints more interested in offering up a cup of joe as it in use plans to introduce a digital tax take form it seems that the big 4 that google amazon facebook and apple are trying their best to cozy up to process i don't think it's a good idea to talk about politics or policy with a glass of wine in your hand and excellent food offered by a person who has clear interests to represent and then there is a little less transparent lobby because there are members of industry associations well they have consultants working for them so you talk to people who don't realize if they are representing the interests of google or facebook or silicon valley

because the names are different these seem to have some very deep pockets according to transparency international in 2900. spent some 8000000 euros trying to get into brussels good graces while the lobbying budgets of the big 4 have skyrocketed since 2014 so why is this new digital tax regime causing them such a headache well until recently most digital giants pay their tax bill in the country where their h.q. is registered but as they've grown questions have been asked as to why they were paying tax on income derived in individual countries their france led the charge by imposing the so-called gas attacks causing the trumpet ministration to go into a tailspin. but the companies are now one of the british government. is going to be.

the corner and trump say they are still tooling things through possibly over a free couple from facebook other countries in europe gearing up to take a slice of the profits point even the brits you know longer agree with the e.u. on anything on the same page plan to go ahead with article services tax it's really says to you is gearing up for a digital tax leaving the us to throw more threats of tariffs as if they're like a buy one get one free offer we've been pretty clear that we think that the digital discriminatory in nature but it seems with a new terror threat so almost a weekly basis from the trumpet ministration the french are boyd by the idea of safety in numbers what will they do tomorrow to go after austria and spain italy the united kingdom all the other countries across the globe that will implement a digital tax we're going to order

a global trade war which is in nobody's interest and the result is not worth the effort it's taken them a while but it does appear that all e.u. countries. we're now on the same page all in agreement that they should be taxing digital giants which means if no agreement is made globally in the next few months starting with paris next week the u.s. and e.u. the old allies could find themselves going head to head. the greek government is under pressure to tighten its refugee policies growing discontent over the migrant crisis continues fuelling protests across the country on the island's worst affected by we influx residents say migrant camps have become overcrowded prisons are demanding their shut down while athens has pointed out a lack of solidarity from the e.u. slamming brussels for turning the country into as they say

a parking lot for migrants. i respect the right of citizens to react their anger is justified the situation is really difficult our priorities include the decongestion of the islands duction of migrant inflows the return of migrants to turkey and trust building measures with the islanders it means greece is the only one paying the price for migration is passé the asian islands lesbos has sung there are $30000.00 migrants and there only $80000.00 of us soon will become the minority in our own land. we cannot go out of our homes we can go to the supermarket to the a.t.m. machines there is a constant flow of new migrants and these must stop night like this situation is difficult for them and for us the living conditions for them are miserable we send by them and they would tear away we can but we want these people to leave because they bother us or because we don't love them but because they live in a way that is inhumane. or greece has taken much of the brunt of the european

migrant crisis nearly 60000 refugees reached greek shores in 2019 alone the islands of lesbos kielce and some os is the majority of those arriving but migrant camps there have gone well beyond full capacity leading advocates in groups the slump are living conditions that eerie aeration has fuelled multiple incidents including repeated stabbings on a growing number of suicides. well joining me now live from the greek city of thessalonica is political analyst petrus our girl welcome petrus is the discontent felt on the island also being echoed elsewhere in greece that's where there is a. hospital. micron's there are similar reactions from what i would publish and the situation is

a very by the. e.u. has done tarbuck. on greece as isolated greece and greece a lot of places in greece are dumping grounds for illegal migrants and refugees what are the main changes or improvements that that greeks are actually asking for . well there is not there you name it in this. issue suppose additions. most of the people suggest. you should take a bargain but some of the buy them for more bucks but this is not. a solution that can stop the problem. as it will the guards other migrants illegal migrants to try these very dangerous trip that was going to be my point actually because greece has accused the e.u. at petrol of a lack of solidarity proselytise tried working out a deal with turkey we know and with many indeed of the migrants countries of origin

has not helped alleviate the problem in any way it is so. the president of turkey as i mean so full imposing neighborhood war against greece. has. only again the flow and we immigrants which he has stayed lee. he has stated that he controls so it's not just it's up there of the big immigrant issue there's another point that's turkey is using migrant rooms to. good. grief some of the greek government so yes you did some things in the past that helped. prepare your refugee crisis in 2012 there was sort of the. e.u. decided to close the borders of migrants lets greece show them the problem on its

own. actually the turkey's e.u. deal does not is not being held by the dirtiest party from time to time so that is what creates a problem we have about half a minute but i just want to fit another point here the government has promised are had promised to shut down overcrowded counts relocate migrants white house and it. because even if the government sticks to the blood of the regional gram they have it will be too little too slow we're expecting the. flow of migrants off above 150000 your rivals in the 2020 now if you examine that's in the. perspective of why the time in 10 years there will be 1000000 women 505200000 migrants in greece if

there is no change of plans. this is not viable and i'm telling my grams and not for the great british thank you for your time political analysts petrus our korea live in the program. q 247 you fly from moscow this is our to international more great program again in moments to close. join me every thursday on the i like simon short and i'll be speaking to get us in the world of politics small business i'm sure i'll see you then. when i was told some seemed wrong all right old wall just don't call. me you call me yet to shape our disdain because dick.