survivors and those who lost their lives and for more now on join john joined by correspondent simon young who is in auschwitz. simon what is happening there today. yeah i'm standing in the original auschwitz camp so-called our schlitz one camp where the machinery of killing really started and continued through most of the 2nd world war and tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz where more than a 1000000 people were murdered and incredibly survivors from that time people who'd been through the experiences that we have all read about how coming back here and they've been telling their stories they're here in the camp now revisiting the place where they knew so much suffering and i was just listening to the story of one lady from new york a well into her ninety's in a wheelchair she's come here with her family and she was just remembering how she arrived in the camp as a 20 year old and the brutality that she experience it's very moving very powerful and for a lot of these survivors it's important to tell their stories d.w. spoke in the last few days with a survivor

remembers those who survived and those who lost their loss for more i'm joined now by correspondent simon young where people are already gathering ahead of tomorrow's simon. that's right nic i'm standing at the entrance of the original auschwitz camp baskets one as it's now normally known and you know this is a place where thousands were incarcerated and many people were murdered but 75 years after the liberation of auschwitz incredibly enough some of the survivors who experienced what this place was like under the nazis are still coming back every year we believe around $200.00 auschwitz survivors of different nationalities from countries around the world many of them jews will be coming here and want to tell their stories remind people of the brutality of the horrors of auschwitz and warn future generations about what the semitism is and what the holocaust was and d.-w. had the opportunity within the last few days to speak to and ask for it survivor he won't be coming this year she lives in israel and for her the pain of what she experienced here. too deep but she still wants to let the world

decisive breakthrough in berlin by the lot of players here we want to bring in political correspondent simon young for a look at what will likely be a very high stakes summit in berlin simon 1st of all just walk us through who is likely to attend this meeting and just as importantly who likely won't be there on sunday. yeah it's going to be a very high level meeting unusually so with so many leaders chancellor merkel has invited heads of state and governments are going to have president mccrone of france prime minister johnson of the u.k. but also secretary of state pompei o from the united states and the egyptian president sisi the turkish president or the one and vladimir putin of russia has also said today. that he's coming in addition to that you've got various international organizations the e.u. the un the african union and so on as well as the leaders of the 2 warring factions have also said that they will be here on sunday so it will be an extraordinarily high level summit as to those who are coming yes tunisia is very unhappy that it hasn't received an invitation especially surprising bec

s political correspondent simon young he was at monday's ceremonies in auschwitz monday was another day focusing on the survivors stories of the horrors of auschwitz all naked people driven in trucks into the gas chambers or sadistic can't go and setting their dogs on prisoners already hard dead but also the hope of freedom kept alive by occasional even my need to acts of kindness this is the last time many of the elderly eyewitnesses will be able to attend a major commemoration the political leaders are aware of that and also the increasingly apparent anti semitism in many countries the desire to learn the lessons of the holocaust was palpable here as the director of the museum said even in a time governments are turning their backs on the ranger when refugees drowning in the mediterranean to change that he said is the responsibility that flows from these killing fields and in that sense the liberation of auschwitz continues even now. simon young the old the corona virus outbreak spreading through china has now killed more than 100 people there and officials say more than 4 and a half

for now let's bring in our political correspondent simon young he's following these peace efforts good evening to you simon we know khalifa haftar he's not known for being the the most trustworthy man in the neighborhood can germany take this promise and claim it as a victory well it's good news is jones said and we shouldn't forget the general have to have the chance to sign a cease fire agreement in moscow last week but he chose not to do that so i certainly think we shouldn't. count chickens before they're hatched out they see clearly is a very positive development because gen half dollar is the man who really controls the largest amount of territory in libya his people pretty much are in dominant everywhere outside the capital tripoli and so the fact that he will be in berlin and that he's saying that he's backing a cease fire you know he's looking towards peace he said he wants this conference to be a success on sunday so all of that really does look very positive going forward and confidence building ahead of a peace conference is very important do you think the foreign minister

correspondent simon young he is in auschwitz for us where there are already people gathering at the headof tomorrow's commemorations. that's right call the big focus is on tomorrow monday's commemorative events which will be held at auschwitz birkenau tomorrow of course being the anniversary the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz but really both today and tomorrow are about the survivors of auschwitz as you say many of them are gathering near here i'm standing at the auschwitz one camp the original main camp in our streets. where people were tortured and murdered for from 940 on woods and not far from here today groups of survivors of course many of these people are now and then ninety's are coming together and you know telling their stories as they've done many times before the many of these people it's a bit like a family reunion there is a core of course a unique bond between auschwitz survivors and i'm sure that many of these people will be pleased to see each other again absolutely and as you mentioned this week is all about commemorating the victims and the survivors o

joining me now from auschwitz correspondent simon young simon auschwitz more than any other place symbolizes the horrors of the holocaust tell us about what is going to happen that to commemorate the victims and the liberation of this camp 75 years ago. yeah today i'm standing at auschwitz birkenau that's the site of this vast extermination camp where you can still see the remains of the seemingly endless rows of very basic huts that the inmates here were crammed into there are the kilometers of barbed wire fencing in the watchtowers i think you can see some of that behind me it really is a very desolate place but one end of this site. a large tent has been constructed right over the top of that iconic gate of death as it's known that's the gate through which the railway wagons came bringing so many who would never leave auschwitz many of them murdered within a very short time after they arrived and that is the location where later on this afternoon the solemn ceremonies will take place as you've mentioned the wreath laying and speeches and what we will be hearing from as ever the people who

so what is the answer let's bring in now our political correspondent simon young he's here in berlin good evening to you simon the u.s. we know considers china particularly the chinese tech giant who way to be a national security threat and so do many people in the coalition government right here in germany yet the german chancellor angela merkel she refuses to say no to allowing who way to come in do business here in germany what is her reasoning for that. well i think anglo medical calling to be suspicious of the motives of some of those who raise concerns about why way and of a successful chinese companies you hear that in this interview when she says that china is not a threat simply because it's successful and she'll say interestingly drew a comparison between the economic rise of china and that of gemini she said that the chinese you know economic sense is laws lead based on khalid work and technical skill and creativity so i think she is inclined to suspect that there is isolationism and protectionism behind behind that sort of challenge in the case of huawei for instance anoth

for what europe's response can be to those protectionist challenges our political correspondent simon young simon thank you. germany's parliament has rejected controversial legislation aimed at helping people who need organ donations the new opt out law would have the sumed that people agreed to have their organs transplanted after death unless they had signed a declaration saying otherwise the german government is looking for ways to increase the supply of organ donors as the country has europe's lowest their nation raked. functionalist job as a business consultant kept him on the road but then he was diagnosed with genetic lung disease he fought to stay healthy as long as he could but it became clear his health depended on getting a donated long time asked discreate when i 1st spoke to the doctors and they told me i needed a lung transplant if i was shot as. it's my lung and i would have preferred to live the rest of my life with my own along. having someone else's lung was a concept he would have to get used to for just a few more examinations than his name could go on the waiting list f

well here in berlin and we're joined now by our political correspondent simon young who's been tracking the response in berlin simon how has the german government reacted to iran's airstrikes in iraq. what areas both condemnation of the iranian air strikes and also calls for calm and deescalation the german defense minister and a great crime karrenbauer said that she can danes these attacks in the strongest terms and wants to use every diplomatic means to bring some calm to the situation and that sentiment was echoed by foreign minister heiko mars he says that he is in contact with all sides to try and deescalate the situation some politicians here have been voicing the concern that there could be. ramping up of the conflict that could spread somehow. around the region and in particular there are calls for the e.u. to do all it can to use it seen fluence to prevent that from happening now germany doesn't have that many troops in iraq just over 130 i believe some of them have already been withdrawn can we expect the rest of them to come out now too. well the defense minister was asked ab

and simon young from d.w. politics has more on this story for us he's with us here in studio hi simon the stasi you know this one the biggest secret police forces in the world tell us what impact they had on east german society i think the story was a sort of state within a state and in 1901 when these germany fell there were about 300000 people working for it one way or another it operated its own network of prisons and it had sweeping powers to deal with enemies of the state as opponents of the regime could be termed and of course they carried out enormous amounts of surveillance including pressuring people to spoil their own friends and family so all of that i think is left a legacy of pain but one useful consequence of course of the habit of document seeing everything they did is that there's an awful lot of evidence for people to go through even now well as we said it was 30 years ago today that activist stormed the stasi headquarters to prevent that evidence from being destroyed and one of those activists

sign a cease fire deal brokered during talks in moscow so i bring in our political correspondent simon young welcome simon why is this announcement coming from germany's foreign minister. well germany is role in this conflict and in these peace talks is as peace broke and as you say a big international conference with all the players all the international parties is being organized here in berlin on sunday and i think germany is a relatively neutral country compared with some of the other e.u. countries as far as this conflict is concerned believes that you can use the power of diplomacy to really bring change and that's why i call mass was in benghazi today had 3 hours of talks with general have to are and this is the very positive statement that has come out saying that you know a cease fire will be abided by and that general have to are as as the really the key player in this conflict will be coming to berlin at the weekend and the people giving much credence to these words it certainly sounds like it well it's been it's been widely and warmly welcomed and i think there are a lot of hopes

threatening to impose tariffs on imports of european cars let's bring in political correspondent simon young for more on this story hi simon and what do these media reports say and what do you make of this. so some of this all comes from a report in the washington post earlier this week that as you say donald trump applied pressure to the european partners in this iran nuclear deal and that is to say germany france and britain by saying that he was ready to impose punitive tariffs up to 25 percent for instance on european car imports to the u.s. now the question of whether those that threat was made has been discussed much today but the government position is that no pressure had any role in the german government's decision and the other european governments as well to trigger the arbitration mechanism which is intended they say to sort of get iran back on track with the nuclear deal the j c p o a which as you know has been sort of abandoned by donald trump and the iranians have said well you know if the americans aren't playing their part then we won't either so you know the deal is in peri

is hoping to achieve a decisive breakthrough more on sunday summit from political correspondent simon young welcome simon so let's start with a guess based on who's coming who won't be there. well this is a very high level summit filled with the presidents of russia egypt turkey and france and u.s. secretary of state pompei as well as the leaders of the 2 warring factions as to who won't be coming. in particular is irritated it's doesn't seem to have received an invitation it says that it's worried about a deal that turkey has signed with aaa covering natural gas exploitation in the mediterranean it would like to be at the table to discuss that. neighbor of libya which everyone knowledges has been very affected by the conflict but the german government says that the invitations have been worked out in close consultation with the u.n. and they are they have decided who's coming and we saw in the report there is lots to there are lots of international backers on both sides so i want to talk about v. international community having a stance when it comes to libya. well i mean there are at their

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will do it of you political correspondent simon young says expectations are high that a peace deal can be reached at the libya conference in berlin on sunday hopes for peace in libya are rising as sunday's high level summit draws nearer the presidents of russia egypt turkey and france as well as the u.s. secretary of state and the leaders of the 2 warring factions will be in berlin to sign a deal that some say is already in large part agreed some countries like tunisia and greece which have not been invited even though they have vital interests in libya have been making it clear they want to be at a meeting they believe will shape the region in the coming years for those that are here the test will be to commit to withdrawing foreign arms and troops from libya and to guarantee that the cease fire will hold those are the essential conditions for peace meanwhile some like the e.u. foreign policy chief joseph burrell were already thinking about what comes after and what role the e.u. should have in ensuring stability on its southern flank. now to some of the other stories making news arou

earlier we asked our political correspondent simon young whether germany should view these promises from general have as a victory we shouldn't forget the general have to have the chance to sign a cease fire agreement in moscow last week chose not to do that so i certainly think we shouldn't. count chickens before they're hatched but clearly is a very positive development because gen will have to are is the man who really controls the largest amount of territory in libya his people pretty much are in dominant everywhere. i saw in the capital tripoli and so the fact that he will be in berlin and he's saying that he's backing a ceasefire you know he's looking towards peace he said he wants this conference to be a success on sunday so all of that really does look very positive going forward. at the australian open qualifiers tennis players have been struggling with poor quality despite some qualifying matches being suspended and one player retiring from play organizers have said the main tournament will go ahead as planned people in melbourne were advised to stay indoors and keep pets insid

earlier we asked our political correspondent simon young whether germany should view these promises from general have as a victory we shouldn't forget the general have to have the chance to sign a cease fire agreement in moscow last week chose not to do that so i certainly think we shouldn't. count chickens before they're hatched but this it clearly is a very positive development because jen will have to are is the man who really controls the largest amount of territory in libya his people pretty much are in dominant everywhere outs. saw at the capital tripoli and so the fact that he will be in berlin and he's saying that he's backing a ceasefire you know he's looking towards peace he said he wants this conference to be a success on sunday so all of that really does look very positive going forward. in international football the 2021 africa cup of nations is set to revert to its traditional slot in january cameron will be hosting the event the changes likely to anger european clubs like premier league leaders level paul whose team include stars mohamed salah of egypt and saddles side you

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and to have to be here to joining me now from auschwitz correspondent assignment young welcome simon is really the enduring symbol of the holocaust tell us what's going to be happening there today to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation. yes emerita as you say the enduring symbol of the largest of the nazi extermination camps and i'm standing here today at auschwitz be a canal the scale of the of the camp of the scale of the horrors here really even today very hard to understand and to conceive mentally one who really has to spend time here i think to really understand it. what's happening today well as you've mentioned leaders royals heads of state and government from many countries. and dignitaries but also survivors are gathering to mark the center 75th anniversary of the liberation by soviet troops there's a sense of celebration there's a sense of reunion as there always is every year when the survivors come together a team with the sadness in particular of knowing that as you said it may be the last time that many of these elderly people can come but as we've been saying

simon young at the auschwitz death camp thank you very much for talking to us about the celebrations and the commemorations taking place to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz. and we will have live coverage of the efficient simon is marking a 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz later today and also we have lots more on this anniversary on our website www dot com including reconnections of survivors of the holocaust. that now being up to date with some other stories making news around the world dutch prime minister mark has apologized for his country's role during the holocaust saying it did too little to protect jewish citizens from nazi persecution he is the 1st dutch premier to make such an apology some 100000 jews from the netherlands were killed by the nazis and they collaborators. exit polls from italy indicate the country's right wing leg up on he appears to have failed in its bid to win a key recent election. campaign relentlessly in the northern states hoping a victory against the center left democratic party would help him bring down italy's frag

to get more on this from a political correspondent simon young welcome simon why is this announcement coming from germany's foreign ministry. you will feel germany's role in this is as peace broker as you say berlin is organizing a big international conference here on sunday and germany's relatively neutral in this conflict unlike some of the other e.u. countries so it believes it can use the power of diplomacy to bring peace to libya or at least start that process having said that german foreign minister heiko moss went to benghazi today with relatively little fanfare and downplaying expectations the man had 3 hours of talks and here's what high tomas said after that quoting him he has pledged to a boy that's general have to by the cease fire regardless of the fact that he did not sign the cease fire agreement in moscow earlier this week this is extremely important so a breakthrough as far as the german side sees it and is the credible do people believe that this ceasefire will actually happened. yeah well that's that's beyond my ken at this at this stage from this vantage point but

are for more now let's bring in our political correspondent simon young he's following this and easy to use i mean can germany. get it can't on this promise from mr. can it can it call a victory can it take him at his word. well there is a huge amount of hopes riding on this brands of course because in particular the idea of the general after will come to the peace conference that's being organized here in berlin on sunday that's that's key because general have to and his forces control most of libya outside the capital tripoli so they are really the key player the head of the internationally recognized unity government has also said he's coming see going to have the 2 warring parties sitting at the table along with many international actors that's why i think this announcement is being welcomed we heard earlier what i'm going to medical said about it is also minister had our foreign minister met with general have to are today and 1st of all it's good news that he's willing to observe the cease fire we need to have that to start with. then at the libya contracts we need to see above

schultz is standing by for us in brussels and here in berlin we have our political correspondent simon young terry any comments yet from e.u. leaders this morning on the iranian airstrike terry at this very moment a european commission president or so live under lion and foreign policy chief joseph burrell are meeting we expect them to come out any minute when it when they planned this this urgent meeting of course the iranian airstrikes hadn't happened yet so they will definitely have to ramp up their response to this of course as our previous guests have said it remains to be seen what the death toll is if any from this attack from iran and that will very much color how leaders respond to that but we'll be hearing from them very shortly it's a bit early to have expected them here in brussels to come out with any response saying that it happened overnight so i mean there has been some reaction from the german government what's the latest. yeah terry the german government has condemned the iranian air strikes and the german defense minister and a great camp karen has been speaking this morni

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they want to settle accounts but we are the ones who lose young men lose money lose infrastructure we won't benefit from this. so that was simone 14 reporting just this week i'm wondering for you the u.s. perspective ah officials thinking about what people down on the ground are going to be feeling experiencing do they have that tension to the have that fear in us in the us well if they do and if it's personified in president trump it's really really distorted sense of what's going on on the ground what was astonishing to me was in response to what's going on and the possibility of u.s. troops being asked to leave iraq president trump said that 1st iraq would have to pay us back for the enormous base that we built and the enormous military base that we built the iraqis and they would have to pass back for the enormous embassy that we built as it invited here as the invasion into iraq you know it's the beginning to be here. i think. they're very grateful that they paid that need to get to america and that all. and. i think didn't so far i can say they're getting lately to get a lot of takes but. well he would go ahead yes . what