thanks for joining us i'm marion evans team. leading figures in poland and the european community are in dance today paying their respects to the city's late mayor. who was fatally stabbed while on stage at a charity event last sunday the murder of the liberal politician is believed to have been politically motivated european council president donald tusk a former polish prime minister is among thousands of mourners inside and outside st mary's church the funeral service is being broadcast on big screens in dansk and in cities across poland. joining us now from dunces d.w. correspondent monica said ask her so monica i can see that you're actually outside of st mary's church where the funeral service for the polish mayor is taking place as we speak can you describe the atmosphere for us. yes on many different streets and places in. like here when i am where i am standing now there are people who gathered to attend the holy mass and the speeches on the screens there are so thousands of them i told some people. here and everybody s

thanks for joining us i'm marion evans to. we begin in poland where mourners are gathering for the funeral of murdered death mayor. the fifty five year old liberal politician was standard a charity event last week in front of hundreds of onlookers the killing has stunned poland with many blaming politicians for inflaming a toxic political climate. could dance is a city overcome by grief. thousands of residents braced freezing temperatures to join mayor pavol adam ovitz coffin on its final journey. past the schools he attended and the childhood home grown parents still live. winding through the streets of the city he went on to govern for over two decades. sadness here equaled only by horror. horror of the killing of a man celebrated by many for his liberal values and criticism of the conservative ruling law and justice party. everyone homosexuals refugees everyone could come here. not say searched everyone mourns together and then the accuse each other or. the mayor was stabbed on sunday while the stage of the children's chari

welcome to the program i'm marion evans to. weather experts are warning of more storms heavy snow and avalanches across the alps last night an avalanche in the west austria buried at least three german skiers their bodies were recovered by rescue workers overall some twenty four people are believed to have died in weather related incidents across the region emergency services fear a brief respite in the downfall could only be temporary. yes it has been covering the snow chaos for us in the alps and he joins us now for the latest so i mean what can you tell us about those german skiers who were killed. that's right as you said there were three found dead one still missing they went missing after they went skiing off slope and the wife reported them missing and they were the three bodies were found just an hour later at eleven pm unfortunately they had to call off the search for the last one because of conditions up there they're in avalanche territory the snow is coming down on the rescue workers just couldn't put their own live

thanks for joining us i'm marion evans dean. france's interior ministry says at least two people are confirmed dead after a powerful explosion and fire ripped through a bakery in central paris the dead are said to be firefighters the cause of the blast is not yet known but police suspect it was sparked by a gas leak this comes as authorities brace themselves for another round of anti-government demonstrations by the so-called yellow vest protesters. all right for the latest from paris we're joined now on the line by our correspondent lisa lewis lisa we understand you're actually at the scene of the splosion what can you tell us about the casualties. well absolutely i'm standing about one hundred meters away from where the explosion happened this morning at nine o'clock in paris on police only a concern to me that two people have in the meantime passed away these two cars were prophets and deeds that least ten people who are in a serious condition so and more than thirty people that were injured additionally during the blast the