Much for. Eighteen years ago i traveled across the United States exploring americas deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better lock with their iron i think they are and hurting one of my my babies since my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by firearms in the us i had a thought to me as i did this this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who id met and photographed those years ago i dont know that but we are not. Unset is no ward winning novelist historian and journalist whose recent novel the president focuses on the lives of women and nazi occupied paris her research is later to speak to a number of Holocaust Survivors from that time and several journalist author and historian welcome to the alex semin chew thank you for inviting me we dont expect you to see and about the leap out is in which you do it after every five years of research i mention some of the stories and if you can give us an idea of how you came across a louise wonderful women dont forget weve grown up in a time of peace and plenty weve never known fear but these women really experienced fear so i think thats one of the main things i i cant imagine that id ever be as courageous course we hope we would be but suppose we take a woman like us let test ila do still is still alive and living in peril still alive today who i think of often because she was only a child she and her sister madeleine were looked after by their mother because of fatherhood already being taken prisoner they were jewish family in the heart of paris and i think it needs to be said that many of these jewish families felt as if they were french they were proud to be jewish but they really identified as french they love france and it was the country of zoeller of rousseau so aflat whos now in her late eightys and the wonderfully elegant to his ear and told me her story how they were rounded up in july nine hundred forty two one of these big roundups that the vision government undertook for the germans called be a hustler do veld even half the means round up and vel these because they were taken to a sports stadium which was highly unsuitable for a matter of hours let alone days and people were held there for five days in boiling heat and hours later to told me what it was like to be there and how they were taken by train then to. Another camp and most people were shipped onto one of the concentration camps mostly auschwitz where they were killed let and her sister and her mother by a series of really clever ruses persuaded the germans to let them come back into paris they said theyd hidden furrows and the germans really needed first of siberia and machines to turn furs into coats that were really important for the german army so they came back into paris and then they consciously thinking of course i cant we dont have a vine king thats whats so amazing when your life is hanging by a thread in that circumstance yes and they were persuaded by their mother to jump off a moving train to lie between the wooden sleepers and then the mother came back and collected them then they walked into paris the mother managed to hide them with people paying out of scraps of embroidery that cheated and paid for them to survive the war and then after the war when the mother discovered because what all the persians had to do they went to the outer new tayseer where there were great lists put up of people who are coming back and whether they had survived or not and after a while she realized that her husband who was her childhood sweetheart obviously wasnt coming back at that point the mother commit suicide and these two children are made orphans of state and asked let todays so positive and smiling and elegant and she goes into schools and she tells these stories because she believes like me that its really important to tell these stories of of survival to tell the stories of refugees because as you rightly say were still suffering the world is still turned upside down with refugees being displaced and where do they go and whos looking out for them and how can we help them both. No difference really if any and i hope we do continue to write in you can continue to enjoy the tremendous insight you have with the survivors and members of the family this too must have affected you personally when speaking to people and wanting an impact of yourself as a writer journalist and historian and meeting people is of many great studies but an interesting question how can it not and you know your constantly thinking partly of your responsibility to tell these stories accurately not to be judge mental to understand the courage of sometimes think teenagers one woman i met on the death march who had completed the death march with a mother but when she was a teenager she used to deliver pamphlets in paris and she told me how she used to walk from one mattress station to another if she thought because sabo waiting for her how enough could i imagine that i would have found the courage so it certainly made me feel but one has to be a bit more courageous in life but also yes there were many nights when i lay awake and i thought you know i dont want to exploit these stories but on the other hand i think it is very important that told the does have it does have that effect on you right now than to thank you very much indeed for sharing your experiences with us thank you for talking to me. A key aspect of remembrance is to celebrate the achievement of refugees and survivors and the mind of poor of this world would be if they had not been saved with me as Debbie Arnold whose mother mary came to london on the very last train as part of the conduct transport Programme Welcome to the exam and showed during alex thank you for having me your mother told you a great deal about what she remembers of topics i hold was she but it should remember getting on the train was the last time she saw your grandparents well she remembers sitting on her papas knee and him saying to her if you hear yes i know youre in england so she knew those words in english then she said that you remember going to the station and she was really excited to go and see a train and a station and she was with mama and papa this was from vienna this is from vienna she was holding her mother and fathers hand and her and she was there as well and she was skipping towards the train loads of people station then she turned around and her mother had gone her father had gone and she was Holding Hands with her auntie and she was looking around for mom or pop or a bearing in mind she was this high and then the next thing she knew she was pushed on the train and turned around and her auntie was gone and then she started to get frightened and started to cry and she couldnt see over the so the window so you know the train was here and my mother couldnt see out of the window so she just started to cry them to understand what happened why it happened i think probably years later but she was picked up at her age and then she went to a family in london and she was not a jewish no i mean a lot of the jewish families wouldnt take the children and i mean thats quite common law marriage and i dont know if it was fear about you know what would happen to them but they a lot of them went to gentile families and so my mother didnt even know she was jewish until she was eleven anyway which determined to reclaim of jewish heritage where she didnt really know anything about it until she left she was which was brought up into this. And she was a companion for their daughter and my mom came with some beautiful boots as a child and beautiful clothes from vienna and all of these clothes were given to this other child and so she lay there in this little bed and she stood say that used to lie on the end of her bed oh my god this is going to make me cry so she used to lie on the end of her bed some of its cut you think you should be the impact of these of those who succeed only generations short because it makes you so you know aware of your mortality for a start of how how brave my grandparents were but this tiny little girl had no one so when i was born she was so she looked after me she loved me so much but she had she really didnt know how to be a mom herself so when eleven years old she went to the beacon in Tunbridge Wells which is where all the children went and i think that would probably be just after the war had finished or but when the war was finishing she was sent to the beginning and then she met all the other children whod been on the can to transport children that came over and they are they were all together in this place in Tunbridge Wells and thats when my mum started to realise who she was and that and i want you to share her story yes and then then she got the telegram because then they were all given telegrams about saying what had happened to their parents and she said all the other kids are getting telegrams sister alive brother alive mary grabbing her parents exterminated that was it so she just thought well im not unusual broken just in the form of in the form of a telegram parents exterminated that was the end so your mom after thinking she was alone in the world all of a sudden a brother pops up to tell you how she felt when she was introduced to acosta who well uncle joseph found her and the reason that he found her was that her father was in auschwitz and he found his father in auschwitz and he said to his father said to his son you have a sister in england and you have to go and find her so joseph escapes. Thats which is very rare not many people did and he came to find his sister in england and he found her remember and i met uncle joseph and the first thing my mother showed me was the number on his arm for most of. The he also was able to give you more information about the family yes saying that you know his father was a comedian that he was a big star in the initiatives are so well to be a she became a school. And then she had to put twenty when she married she married my dad my dad was a very big star then and she married him she had a jewish dance and he found because he always wanted to adopt one of the children from the can transport so when he found her he brought her home to his house and sunderland and said look ive found my refugee said he he got it from the very beginning if you like so he kidnapped her and took him to some blood which. Really wasnt that but she did very well and then he became ill and because he was very very successful he took lady in three times in three months and his career was just taking off. To have a fantastic time away at the battle and then and there are just too strong yeah there i had a brain tumor and then my mom had to learn how to survive without him and of course a friend of hers to just open a nightclub in newcastle and he asked her if he could ring up somebody to to book him and my mom then became an agent do you think knowing the background of your family of the you more determined though or will the you know emotional drawbacks to it but i still think your values are very different when you know what youve come from because you are you know the child of a refugee. So therefore things that are transients dont mean that much i mean you know my mother always used to say remember the thing about fame as well because my father was very famous and shes to say to me and you can forget about fame darling because you cant take it to bed with you and it doesnt love you at night it doesnt pay the bills so its made us all very very levelheaded when we see the stories of other refugee families. Said so the success theyve achieved in a range of human endeavor do you have a feeling of solidarity as i feel as justification yes i do what i feel that with any people that have had some in the kinda transport of people that have lost people in the holocaust i feel she actually connected to them because i think that the thing is now everythings become very diluted we are in a very sort of Cosmopolitan Society so theres mixes of everything but i feel what we went through i still feel it still feel its part of me its never left me i dont know if my children feel the same but its definitely part of me what message of. Societies which accept refugee terms of the potential for good which often comes out of it yes i mean i think people should look after refugees i really do i understand that you know that there is possibility that a huge influx of people but i think when theres a war and we can help people why would. Your life story your mom story particularly when your family is living testament firstly to what actually happened to people who have families thats really important stories to yes absolutely i mean you know we hear what happened to our family you know there are people today that said that a local color course didnt exist well it did otherwise there are millions of people who have been wiped out we dont know where they are something definitely happened and we have to acknowledge that and we have to acknowledge it enormously and our children its a very important part of history and those of us of survived yes families of us of you who have survived through your mother yes im a huge contribution to their adopted country so yes well i mean my mother just loved that she was proud to be british she was so proud to be british and i think weve helped so many people in this country and we should carry on doing that its really important. Thank you so much thank you. 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Broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our national sean thomas glad to have you with us record of arbitration for sport has overturned the lifetime olympic bans of twenty eight russian athletes accused of doping and held their results at the sochi winter games in two thousand and fourteen it was done off as the story for us. This ruling has to be the olympic equivalent of having your execution cancelled at the last minute twenty eight its previously banned for life from the games and are fully cleared of all doping allegations sanctions against them dropped nine a hard won medals in sochi are set to return to their rightful owners named and shamed they refused all along to accept the punishment for being guilty by association youre done with its such a relief for us because were really are innocent the public is now where that many people believe that we dont but our close ones of course knew it wasnt true im really disappointed with the Olympic Movement its a complete mess. Theres a lot of uncertainty the bans were justified in some cases in others not im happy that the athletes in my sport. Have been partially acquitted and im sure well be promoting our movement further. Legal mechanisms exist and we hope well still have the time to fight for our rights if not at cas then in a civil court switzerland has a long history of considering cases if theyre urgent ive always said that the truth and justice always prevail in the end yet the verdict came with a catch. This does not mean that these twenty. Innocents. Is due to insufficient evidence the held the sanctions and the old individual results achieved in such reinstated so hold on a second you yourself proclaimed there is no proof to convict these athletes what part of innocent until Proven Guilty im not getting here this short remark is the latest twist in whats been a nerve racking roller coaster of a doping scandal for russias athletes the International Olympic committee initially slapped the russian team with a blanket Ban Following a report accusing the country of a state sponsored doping program the court of appeals heard both from the author of the report and its key witness though and didnt find their testimony convincing enough these two men who were involved in exposing all of this mess basically gave us enough evidence to say listen mclaren water i. O. C. We dont believe you guys the tribunals conclusion has poked a sizable hole in the reasoning behind the i. O. C. His decision to bar russia from the olympics but the not guilty verdict does not guarantee a ticket to south korea later this month its still the hour youll see that gets the last say in who does go and who does not since the russian Olympic Committee is suspended russian athletes can participate in pyongyang only on invitation by the i. O. C. The result of the cast decision does not mean that at least from the group of twenty eight will be invited to the games so for now even without an invitation to south korea the twenty eight russian athletes have potentially paved the way for other clean athletes to achieve justice but even with this battle won the war is far from over we discussed the issue with a number of lawyers following the case they told us they welcome the decision. But this is a victory for common sense and the fundamental principles of the olympics over political whims weve always stuck to the principles journey i. O. C. Inquiry and recast as well as the limpy charter is based on and thats what appeared to cool it in leftist when he created the Olympic Movement of first of all its a great victory for those twenty eight cleats were fought over a year to claim their innocence and. This isnt confirmed that they have not committed any wrongdoing and the i. O. C. Had wrongly sanctioned them for something they had not done theoretically. You see this isnt the grounds on which you can those this isnt the grounds on which you can challenge the decisions before the court are very limited and i dont see how they could be successful and you can see the reaction of one russian crosscountry skier after hearing the verdict and. View you have who was one of the twenty eight athletes cleared of doping was overjoyed at the courts decision. The release of a classified u. S. Congressional memo allegedly detailing abuses of surveillance of powers by the f. B. I. Is expected to be approved by President Trump on friday the possible move has already led to two major backlash from both the agency and the Democratic Party hes come up and has commentary. Well a specter of anticipation is hanging over washington d. C. As everyone is anticipating the release of the memo now at this point weve already heard from many republicans who say theyve seen the memo and that the content is shocking theyre calling it worse than the watergate scandal now essentially the memo is purported and expected to show great abuses by the f. B. I. That essentially that they have the f. B. I. And the u. S. Department of justice were abusing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in order to spy on donald trump that is what is being alleged now weve already got a recording of donald trump on a hot mike saying that the memo will be released just released youre going to go one hundred percent. Of. The f. B. I. Is saying in complaining essential that they didnt have enough time to review the memo up before its pending release and weve also heard from adam a shifa top democrat who is saying that changes to the memo have been made without prior approval and its called on the white house essentially not to release it hes saying its not ready to be released there have been changes that have been made to it now weve also heard from devon newness spokesperson devons known as the chair of the committee and he said that some of those changes actually came at the request of the democrats it was minor edits some grammatical fixes as well as two edits done at the request of the f. B. I. Now this medal is set to to really kind of challenge and kind of throw away some of the credibility of the f. B. I. As well as the entire russia investigation in response to this weve heard a number of Democratic Leaders say that the calls to release the memo are somehow a plot by the kremlin and as the hash tag released the memo went up on social media Top Democrats sending a letter to social media basically saying that they wanted them to investigate whether or not russian bots were. Behind the release but its gone further than that at this point weve now heard allegations that perhaps the force is responsible and the chairman of the committee could actually himself be a russian agent. Is it possible that the republican chair of the House Intel Committee has been compromised by the russians as a possible plea at all the russian agents running the House Intel Committee on the republican side i hope thats not the case i mean this is behavior speak about the i mean im not the first person whos raised this hes behaving like someone whos been compromised by. Investigators reportedly are interested in steins advocacy for better relations with russia any vote for stein is a vote that otherwise would have gone to hillary. Donna brazil would seemingly buy into full fuel propaganda spread by both the russians and her opponent not our candidates. If theres objection and i know the senator from kentucky on the floor i will say before i read this if theres objection you are achieving the objectives of latin america. Rasmussen executive director at the Eurasia Center in washington d. C. Believes that the memos release will throw the entire russia related probe into doubt. You know hes frustrated with the russia gate. Investigation of which after a year and a half we have no evidence whatsoever and now what weve got is actually evident texas could have backlash on the democrats absolutely i think thats the primary thats the fundamental reason why they do not one to release it really puts in the question this entire investigation it shows at least indications that could be further investigated but from the initial appearance severe bias with senior levels of our Law Enforcement agency i think what hes concerned about here i personally dont think anything in the memos probably is that embarrassing yes is that against will it threaten National Security i dont think so so the classification is probably more because its Sensitive Information and the president has the authority to release that