the trial of oskar groening, a landmark moment for germany.the holocaust would face justice. the exact number of people who died is not known but it was at least a million. there is no evidence oskar groening was directly responsible for any deaths that his job was to itemise valuables, money, but also mundane things like shoes and spectacles are taken from jews as they arrived at the camp. he spokein as they arrived at the camp. he spoke in a documentary in 2005 and was asked if it was fair that him to have a family and children also many jewish families and others were killed. translation: absolutely not. everybody is looking out for themselves. so many people died, sony things happened, so many shot. people burnt to death, so many were burnt. if i thought about all of that, i wouldn't be able to live one minute longer. in court, oskar groening had confessed to what he called his moral guilt and he was one of the very few concentration camp guards who admitted the holocaust took place but due to ill—health, he never served a single day of hi

in 2015, oskar groening was sentenced to four years in jail as an accessory to 300,000 murders at theas upheld in december, but he died before serving any time. a leaked draft of a united nations report claims two singaporean companies have violated sanctions against north korea. if the claims are proven, this potentially raises questions aboutjust how common this is in the rest of asia. the final report, which has been submitted to the un security council, is expected to be published later this week. singapore‘s ministry of foreign affairs has told the bbc it is aware of these cases, and has said that where there is credible information of offences committed under singapore law, the government has begun investigations. a draft copy of the report has been seen by the bbc. here‘s more from karishma vaswani. this is a shop in pyongyang, selling branded watches, handbags and alcohol — items which are banned under un sanctions and singapore law too. but now, a leaked un report claims there‘s evidence of at least one singaporean company selling luxury goods in north korea as recently as la

oskar groening, the former nazi ss officer dubbed the ‘bookkeeper of auschwitz‘, dies at the age of 96ident trump blocks a planned takeover of us chipmaker qualcomm by singapore—based rival broadcom on the grounds of national security. we will be live in singapore for more on that un report that alleges north korea is alleged to be evading north korea is alleged to be evading north korea is alleged to be evading north korea sanctions by using asian companies. a warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. and you can be part of the conversation. tell us what you think. just use the hashtag #bbcthebriefing. the clock is ticking for moscow over the poisoning of a former russian spy in the uk. the deadline set by britain for answers is midnight uk time. it's calling on the russian government to fully respond to evidence of its involvement in a nerve gas attack on sergei skripal and his daughter. the us secretary of state, rex tillerson, has also weighed in, saying he agrees with the uk's assessment that russia was likely to be res