still with us and says the world must stand united against anti semitism and detroit plus growing alarm me city of 11000000 people long logged out chinese authorities scrambling to quarantine in rwanda metropolis at the very center of the corona virus outbreak but health officials report the 1st deaths from the disease outside of the city also. a matter of survival that sounds just un-american describes the climate crisis at the world economic forum in davos merkel tells the world's rich and powerful to climate activist seriously. great to have you along everyone well we. to our coverage now of ceremonies at the memorial in jerusalem to honor holocaust victims and survivors all this is the 1st in a series of events marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp which is commemorated at international holocaust remembrance day 6000000 jews were killed in the genocide during world war 2 dozens of international has of state and government joined israeli leaders at the ceremony they gathered to remember one of the world's darkest chapters and vowed to fight anti-semitism in their countries in the 1st speech by a german president and yet russian conquered to steinmeyer said germany's responsibility for the crimes of the nazi regime will not expire let's take a listen now to what president steinmeyer said 75 years later. after the liberation of auschwitz i stand before you all as president of germany and i stand here laden with the heavy historical burden. of guilt yet at the same time. my heart is filled with gratitude gratitude for the hands of the survivors stretch out to us gratitude for the new trust given to us by people in israel. and across the world gratitude for jews life has flown for all rushing again in germany. my soul is moved by this spirit of reconciliation a spirit. which opened up a new and peaceful path for germany and israel. for germany europe and the countries of the world. all right let's take you now are to jerusalem time there kramer our correspondent there has been covering the ceremony at yad vashem for us let's get some reaction from her tanya the german the president there giving a very moving speech at yad vashem the 1st time a german leader has given an address how has this speech been there received where you are. why i think it has been rather. received israeli commentators in the media and all some people i had the chance to talk to afterwards they were saying that they thought it was a very emotional speech they appreciated that. president hung by this time i acknowledged the responsibility of june themselves for what they did during the 2nd world war during the holocaust and also appreciate very much that he started his speech with a prayer or rather a tough thing he spoke at the end he spoke and he. thanking for the opportunity to be here as he said it was the 1st time that a german president could speak it in such a context so he had to make somehow the balance between commemorating the past. thinking and reflecting on what happened to all those victims but also reflecting on what's happening today and i think he said a very important sentence here he said i wish i could say that germans have learned from the past because today there is still hatred and they're still. reflecting on what's happening today in germany but also in europe precisely because the holocaust commemoration comes at a time when sadly there is a resurgence of anti-semitism in many parts of the world including germany how has that been addressed in the speeches today. well i think this one was one of the main topics here of this gathering of those leaders on the one hand the common ration of what happened 75 years ago commemorating the anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz but also addressing the rise of the 7 to csma not just also racism and discrimination and i talked to some of the holocaust survivors and they said to me it's very important to them that the speaker has a do address the issue they're bent through all this and they want this to be addressed but they also were a bit concerned that this might be a very symbolic event it's very important for them that this happened but they also of course want action to be taken on your claim of reporting from jerusalem thank you. and i have to speak with some of the other stories making news around the world. the german government has banned a neo nazi group calling itself combat 18 and the band comes after a surge of far right violence including the murder of all to look up to it conservative progress 3 g. politician in the city of castle a deadly attack on a synagogue in the city of hama. the syrian defense force claims troops loyal to president bashar al assad have continued their offensive on rebel held areas despite a cease fire agreement and observer group has released a video of government helicopters dropping a barrel bomb on a village earlier this week. the international court of justice has ordered me in march to take all the measures necessary in his power to prevent genocide against rooms of people and preserve evidence of alleged atrocities well the verdict comes after lynn mars de facto leader aung san suu kyi defended her country against accusations of genocide to put the. on next to china where a deadly virus is spreading and fueling fears of a global pandemic chinese health officials have just confirmed the 1st deaths from a new strain of corona virus outside the city and that's the epicenter of the outbreak the victim is an 80 year old man in the province. authorities have been racing to quarantine rouhani and other chinese cities in a bit to contain the disease. this is where it all began authorities have traced the outbreak of the corona virus to a seafood market in ruhani since then the city has shut down outdoor transportation to cut off from the world some fear a repeat of the deadly outbreak of the sars virus which killed over 800 people in 2003. and i think those i'm really worried i'm really scared it will become the next ours that's why we all ran off but some are still traveling to you know who on is a city often 11000000 people just about 400 have been infected that's a very low percentage and the fatalities are all old people. hospital wards have had to deal with hundreds of cases but the world health organization has not yet declared a global health emergency. if you look at w h o guidelines there has been no guidance for any private or today there's dictions. so the look down is in excess of the current guidance w.h.o. is providing and therefore the down of 11000000 people is unprecedented in public health history on thursday the government announced the transport links to the cities of one gun and the jewel what also be cut and the fear of contagion has produced dramatic scenes like here at fuzhou airport or on the move to visit friends and family for the lunar new year one of the biggest annual migrations in the world. the government has cancelled many festivities in an effort to contain the virus. to talk a little bit more about this with from our science department in about 5 and 1st i mean just according to you a city the size of one hot it is a very drastic measure how does that work are people not allowed to leave their homes are there border controls everywhere i mean how does that look for the people living there yes of course i'm not there but apparently what i have heard is that basically the trains and the trend of the trains and buses are all shut down people still moving around the city but they don't go to markets that much they basically stay indoors all the ostrow stay indoors when people go out to protective masks will this help contain the spread of this mysterious virus. it will certainly help if people can't leave the cities our people on travelling so much where you have to consider that new years we had to evolve it so people would usually travel a lot they would infect much more now this is probably one of the most effective ways of preventing that by containing it in a city but we have to be aware as it is this is a city of 11000000 people 3 more cities in the same province have already been also shut down in the same way or basically been isolated now this is a very tough and decisive response by the chinese or storage fees and the w.h.o. has also acknowledged that and so we will have to see if the w.h.o. zone today which they are discussing right now at this moment will declare an international health emergency or not considering that the chinese also routines are doing what they're doing this may be a decision that comes later or later point. in bought for you thank you. the world's rich and powerful are meeting in the swiss alps this week for the world economic forum and today the german chancellor told them to listen to young activists demanding action on climate change and america's teenage activists like gratitude and work bring energy and urgency to the sabbats the climate crisis so she warned of a growing rift between young climate campaigners and an older generation that denies the reality of global warming. dodgy doors were not going to stop until americal from delivering today's warning to davos this is the 12th time the german chancellor has spoken at the forum but never have the stakes been higher merkel appealed to the world to arjun li make good on the paris climate accords. the question of achieving the goals of the paris agreement could be a question of survival for the whole planet. is why we need to act or instead it is a known fact that. it's also why environmental themes have played bigger than ever this year with activism royalty meeting actually to the future king world can you agree to turn back the us president is not a fan the german chancellor try to mediate. but that's up to they did side time is a thing as and he didn't mean the older ones have to be careful. i am 65 years old all the impatience of our young people is something we ought to tap as a potential investor that we are to understand that they obviously look at a far different horizon well beyond 2052nd also. the talk of intergenerational divisions jarred somewhat with the calm outside. perhaps why merkel saved her last with a culture is for the business elites to work together to avoid a climate disaster. they called us for a cohesive and sustainable world stakeholders for a sustainable world i would argue where all this talk ellett issues are that you are the cell of yom we try to take this seriously there are a whole host of opportunities open to us but we cannot be inward looking and going it alone that would be the completely wrong lesson to take all these years after the 2nd world war and that is so i think that it's. now what matters is whether the class was paying attention. likes or might out of the top stories or we're tracking for you just our. world leaders have pitched tribute to holocaust victims and survivors at the camp for morial in jerusalem it's the start of commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp in a landmark speech a german the president of the steinmeyer underlined this country is a sort of responsibility to fight. and china has confirmed the 1st death from coronavirus outside the virus at the center of 180 year old man in the province of quebec but that would have locked down rwanda several other chinese cities in the bit for the virus from spreading to washington w. news coming up next it is due to be here news africa with my colleague eric l. 1st us again tomorrow. and. cast language courses. video and audio. where. the top entire. empires came from jurors or dealing with i mean i thought i killed many so.