people as a sad stood up and clapped while he was giving that speech he also welcomes guests from patna cities there were a lot of people sitting in the room with microphone with headphones and similar 10 years translations so people have come from. patna cities coventry in england he mentions it's in poland and steinmeier stressed how what jason experienced here 75 years ago obviously a lot of other cities across europe but also across the world is half experience and still experiencing the terrors off war. here with me for now we will talk more in the course of the program over a period of 3 days allied warplanes dropped 5 bombs that killed thousands of people many of them women and children fleeing the soviet arms advance in the east the bombs also laid waste to the cities of famous baroque churches and palaces. since bringing rebuild but survivors of the attack i've been telling d.w. what it was like when the bombs began to fall. when aaron's tears comes to the new mark's public square and sees the restored church of our lady or fallen cure here he is reminded of the dresden bombing

at the palace of culture the mood was very somber a lot of the participants also came from greece patna cities in poland elsewhere in the world and cities that have experienced destruction and war firsthand like greece and frankfurters time i stressed in the speech the importance of standing up for democracy for humanity and for peace the peace that has lasted for 75 years here in europe he then went on to join thousands of others off to dress and said jason a citizens in standing hand in hand in a human chain forming a human chain that went through the whole city send off trace just a few hours ago people who i talked to who joined the human chain actually told me they came out because they once they want to commemorate this day they want to commemorate the victim remember the victims but also remember germany's responsibility in causing and creating this war is the responsibility for the war and the it shows its trust cities and to stand up to forces in german societies right now who are questioning that responsibility and who are trying to rewrite history and i'm standing just now in

saving kenya's ancient custom made the rain forest instead of burning wood patna singh the power of the sounds of coke. and how a network of activists is taking off we tell john adams on the internet attempt to improve conditions for one purpose. if it does. let's do business it was only a matter of time covert 19 all the coronavirus as rid its ugly head in africa egypt confirming the 1st case on friday since then the african union has assured the call today that it's working hard to ensure the disease doesn't get any further but it's already impacting business. since the outbreak of coronavirus in egypt the southern algerian has he messaoud airport has set up medical screening checkpoints it's a destination for employees in the country's oil industry authorities fear the virus could begin to spread in africa. i think. for the for the people because we have with china people china is the most important trade partner for many african countries as well as a buyer of the continent's natural resources and when it comes to resource dependent countries just take angola well over 60 percent of

to this deal signing ceremony and only international pressure of preventative from doing so and to patna he wanted at the same time to call for a parallel government so who in the end is going to sit down with the taliban to you know really met with the future of afghanistan is it going to be a democracy or republic as it is now or are we returning to the islamic emirate which is essentially still what the taliban want all very big questions that no one seems knows the answer to yet and what has struck me about today's agree. i meant is that it says the taliban should not to use afghan soil to launch attacks against u.s. interests and i mean that really struck me where does this leave ordinary people and afghanistan they after all have been the main victims of all the violence over the last 1000 years or longer and how do they feel about what's happening today i'm i'm just keep in mind the figures for the last 10 years because those are figures we have we are looking at over 100000 civilian casualties in this war so it is still one of the bloodiest wars of our lifetime in afghanistan rig

and now at the patna a mountain river fed by the melt water from that suit them.over the centuries the river eroded the rocks and left behind and deep chords. i'm meaningless i know he's been constantin of the pot now chords for 18 years. believe can you tell us a little about what you do. taking the other to avoid that we have a fairly standard routine every day before we open the gold watch my stuff conduct a thorough safety inspection then make sure all of the pathways and railings are intact sometimes they have to remove trash or debris or if there's a problem of any kind they phone me and i have to decide whether it can be solved quickly and easily or whether we have to close the gorge at short notice on both light or put this in the mighty companies now 5 after all these years you probably know the gorge better than anyone and garnish patent or even the whole world what's so fascinating about the partner. is this for new the gorge has a different ambulance in every season and even at different times of the day if you're here at 7 in the morning it's not a to

that was attended by guests from patna cities also by the duke of kent. he was there as well and steinmeier stressed the importance of standing up for peace standing up. for humanity and that's what thousands of people in the city did later this afternoon when they came out into the streets even though it's raining it was very cold out here at 6 o'clock 2 stands hand in hand in a human chain through the whole city center of trace him to stand up to show and demonstrate the commitment to democracy to tolerance and to humanity our rights my colleague and how much time there in dresden the only thank you very much. i joining me here the big table tonight to help us put dresden the bombing and its commemoration in a in a broader context as my colleague frank kaufman good to see you frank would you say that the role of the drugs did in the bombing would you say it's more important to today's politics than it has ever been so i would say that maybe the context is a different one in times when right wing populists trying to gain ground when it comes to the essen