for your reporting, well, israel's president isaac hartzog is on a state visit to germany where he has called for closer ties between the 2 nations . his trip marks the 50th anniversary of the munich olympics massacre, where is railey team members were killed. he also visited the former nazi concentration camp bergen belsen with his german counterpart, frank flattish, ty, maya, israel and germany's presidents paid their respects to the victims of the holocaust at bergen belsen israeli president, issac hertz ox. father helped liberate the camp in 1945. addressing germany's parliament in berlin hertz ark spoke about the effect. his father's stories had upon him as a child. emma conducts, ah, a vase is all of a ha! my father is a 6th president of israel hind hertzog. i am and it was among the 1st officers who liberated the death camps and germany from the jaws of the nazi beast. the ha, nazi large ga hello lie. i shall never forget how he described to me the horrors he witnessed them out. the stench that's a ha! the human skeletons and striped pajamas. so the piles of corpses, the destruc

chamber, orchestra of munich performed moving interludes between speeches by israel's precedent. isaac hartzog, as well as several german officials who echoed president stein myers apology, or for germany's role in the massacre. i didn't help and after all was said that there was a minute of silence as photos of the victims were shown though they died 50 years ago. the loved ones who survived them say the pain of losing them has never left and kai schiller is with us. now he is a cultural historian at the university of durham in the united kingdom. he co authored the book that 1972 munich olympics and the making of modern germany, mister shill. i welcome an official apology to day half a century after the events. what took so long? i did several, several things took so long for one. the generation on addition to was in charge in the seventy's has now died. i think the last sort of living witness off in terms of german politics. they may have new was instrumental in bringing the game tonight a couple of years ago. so it made it easy. i think it makes it, he gets a chance to rational change to a