A ninety five year old survivor whos working to ensure that the atrocities of World War Two never happen again. Wait or welcome to the program at least sixty three people are dead and have been killed in a major explosion in the Afghan Capital kabul the countrys interior minister also says more than one hundred fifty were injured in the suicide bomb attack which happened at a Police Security checkpoint on saturday morning the taliban have claimed responsibility. The attacker made it past the first checkpoint posing as a paramedic transporting a patient in an ambulance the bomb was detonated when he was identified by police at the second checkpoint. I was sitting in my shop when there was a powerful explosion only windows shattered to the bottom of. The casualties a very high bodies were everywhere near the hospital and everyone. Said oh. The Hospital Coordinator described the attack as a massacre the blast happened on a busy street during lunch hour the area is home to several foreign embassies and government buildings. This is the second Major Taliban attack in kabul in the past eighty. Thats despite reassurances from the government and its u. S. Allies that their joint offensive against the taliban was succeeding were going to go now to journalist here in afghanistan. Mr adie thank you so much for being with us we are first just wondering how are people in afghanistan coping with the situation. For people in afghanistan are still horrifying and everyone is actually probably go prepared it is not the preferred track which happened in kabul over the last few days actually for it is one of the act which happened here to the people we talked to on social media as well everyone is really proud of criticizing but if you follow court you know i think the government or for you from a fifteen year afghan Operational Security opticals and speaking of the officials on calls for firing how are the authorities in kabul dealing with the aftermath of this. Well you hear nothing actually except some very. Serious remarks understatement from both the president and so what they are doing is only condemning the attacks which if you believe that only one what changes its statement says the date and the days they told such attacks and nothing very fair use actually the Afghan Government normally sit down please the number up to date in afghanistan but the Health Ministry that we spoke to he confirmed over sixty people were killed but let me remind you that the day number is really high because the Afghan Government always does that in order to actually not panic people. Now it seems like theres been an uptick in the number of attacks happening in afghanistan lately is there any truth to that feeling and if so why is that. Well theres no money because the afghan will afghans when you speak on the street they believe that the Afghan Government is so much busy with the politics and accusing the neighboring countries that they forget to ensure the security of afghans this isnt especially in the capital kabul for example any in a few days i could say that probably is under siege but it is not only called but as a whole afghanistan is under siege i mean over the last few weeks. Have been a serious of attacks across the country in the north of the country for example in south yesterday it was in kandahar and today as well i think in one of the thousand provinces as well so it is actually the total failure people believe it is a total failure of the Afghan Security forces even though the number is to money but its because not the professional. Competent people are appointed senior so thats why i mean process also because of the you know the failure in your Intelligence Services even though to bring it to the audience attention that hewitts embassy couple of days ago they issued a warning saying that there might be an attack against a restaurant or hotel or some of the busiest places in kabul that we have been actually witnessing at least two attacks in kabul. For us in afghanistan thank you very much for your insights thank you. Several thousand members of germanys Kurdish Community are staging a protest against turkeys military offensive in syria the demonstration is taking place in the german city of cologne which is home to a large Kurdish Community it comes a week after turkish troops launched a ground and air assault on Kurdish Forces in Northern Syria we understand police are intervening following an incident there were fears the violence could break out between kurds and turks who support the military operation. Germanys green party has elected to new leaders the vote was part of a reshuffle triggered after the failure of the partys Coalition Talks with chancellor Angela Merkels conservative bloc and the free democrats robert ha back will now head of the greens alongside on and they. Are part of the centrist wing along as well as part of the greens pragmatic wing breaking a tradition of electing a leftist. Now on to some of the other stories making news around the world voters in the Czech Republic have cast their ballots in the countrys today president ial runoff pro western academic. Scuse me is seeking to oust the anti immigrant incumbent to me last exam on the polls had zaman ahead but it now looks like it could be a tight race. Philippine president roderigo do territory has voiced support for me on mars embroiled leader. To ten times said he pities the nobel prize laureate who is facing International Condemnation for failing to address the atrocities committed against muslims in myanmar. South koreas president mourn j. And has visited the scene of a hospital fire that killed dozens and injured more than one hundred the building in the Southern City of near young caught fire on friday authorities have ordered an investigation into the cause of the blaze. Today is International HolocaustRemembrance Day marked every year on the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp nazi germany murdered murdered more than six million jews in the Second World War one of those working to uphold the memory of the victims is ninety five year old survivor Margaret Meissner in the u. S. Capital washington. Margaret meissner was born in austria and traced impractical slovakias in one nine hundred thirty four the growing anti semitism in her city became more and more noticeable so markets mother sent her to paris and joined a year later. But the influence of the masses was soon felt in france as well one day markets mother received a letter so i went to the Police Station with her and us the were you taking her since none of your business go and were you to make the most business go home so here i was burma served my mother was gone we had no money markets mother was deported to girl internment camp in Southern France market was eighty years old alone and had to find a way out of europe she fled paris on a bicycle at the same time her mother succeeded in escaping the internment camp by some miracle the mother and daughter found each other just twelve kilometers from get. Together as they made their way to spain where they found a way to travel to america but he was not to be they were picked up by the Spanish Police and thrown in jail so after this we were good to be to the tomb incidents but you see over here. So we had good luck good friends who helped. And the exactly three years after i left my room in prague we came to the United States but little home i was ninety my good meisner regularly tells visitors to the Holocaust Museum about her memories and experiences this is one of the most visited museums in the u. S. Capitol many people come specially to hear the sorry survivors have to tell that her generation is quickly vanishing this current of industrialization of death has never happened and the person so that this is one of the reasons why one should not forget that and more than and the thing else were untrue. These arrows from ripping repeated. To market my start these issues have gained a new sense of urgency in todays highly volatile political climate. Certainly some of the. Moves of the American Government right now is very similar to work her in germany in the month in twenty seventh the nineteenth and trying not to be a bust the. Market is determined to remain active as long as she can shes put her story into a book so that people in the world can read it and that future generations are aware of this part of history. Now we never forget the french capital paris is on high alert for flooding as the river scent threatens to overflow its banks all boat traffic on the sun in paris and upstream of the sun has been stopped but already has have shut roads train stations and rail lines hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in the paris region the water level is expected to peak at around six meters at least four meters above its normal level. And moving onward to sports in tennis news Caroline Wozniacki has been crowned the womens Australian Open champion after defeating cmon aholic seven six three six six four in a melbourne the dane lead after a nail biting first set went all the way to a tie break before holland drew level while he held her nerve however to claim the final set and a first ever grand slam title the mens final will be played on sunday in the bundesliga match day twenty got off to a thrilling start as i try frankfurt defeated fellow european hopefuls. To zero Kevin Prince Boateng put the hosts ahead on the forty third minute. Sealed the victory in injury time it was the on loans strikers third goal in as many games the win saw troughed move up to second in the table ahead of the rest of this weekends fixtures and elsewhere in the bundesliga its that time of year again hamburg have sacked another coach theyve made a habit of bringing in new blood during the season and despite plenty of poor results in recent years they have always managed to avoid the drop but will work one more time on saturday the new coach will face life safe in his first game in charge. It was all smiles from a new hamburg coach banned all of us a one time no frills defender hopes a back to basics approach can steady the ship at the troubled club. Or club when the table tells a clear story but we need to improve across the borders and we know that and were working to make it better than to speed up the hamburg fans have heard this sort of thing before over the past ten years no less than thirteen coaches have tried their hand at improving the clubs Fortunes Well several of hamburgs relegation rivals brought in new players in the winter break the Northern Club stood pat their middling roster will stay as it is a potentially risky move. For the shoots the Coaching Staff got together and we came up with a plan a month in which well see whether it works on saturday. Who does them sumptuously in one part of all the boks plan is apparently welcoming a once out of favor player back into the fold while the city looks set to make the start in central midfield a tough assignments in logic. I just ask you to guess we know its going to be tough to take points off them. But i think as long as we play as a unit you know you have a chance and out of that and well do that to win emberg have got a lot of practice pulling themselves together and beating the drop in three of the past four seasons theyve gone down to their final game before safety was assured. And ogive remains in the lead after the second day of the season opening Monte Carlo Rally the french ford fiesta driver struggles in the slippery conditions but finished still but still finished the day fifteen seconds ahead of us stony and driver tanaka is aiming to win his sixth straight world rally title. Youre watching news from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour and dont forget you can get all the latest news and information around the car around the clock on our web site thats t w dot com thanks for joining us. Every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word emerged in the. 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