Never again. Thats the plea of the people who survived one of the darkest moments in history, The Holocaust. During World War Two german murdered countless people. Including six million jewish men, women and children. Its easy to think of The Holocaust as a relic of the past. But the few remaining survivors of The Holocaust still live with the horrors of The Holocaust remains one of the greatest crimes against humanity in europe. Set out to kill as many jews as possible. They murdered all four of my grandparents. And forced my parents into slave labor and extermination camps, miraculously, my parents survived. Hate ignited The Holocaust. Ignorance fueled it. Eight decades later, its horrifying to see a rise in Anti Semitism and Holocaust Denial Around The World and here in this country. We want to take you on a tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial museum here in washington, d. C. More than 45 Million People have visited this museum since it opened back in 1993. This institution
everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with a dramatic evacuation of u. s. government personnel and their families from sudan president biden confirming the operation overnight more than 100. special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the decision to evacuate came after a week of heavy fighting between rival military factions that left more than 400 dead and thousands injured. we ve got full coverage with kylie atwood at the state department, kevin liptak at the white house. kylie let s begin with you. this was a big operation. i mean what was happening behind the scenes at the state department and what provoked this decision. major operation and what you have to understand with embassies like this that are in areas where conflict can arise is that the state department has plans for these evacuations. but then they have to go back and look at these plans in a very detailed way, and that s what state department offic
joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m michael holmes. appreciate your company coming up here on cnn newsroom, the young u. s airman accused of leaking highly classified documents online, formally charged with violating the espionage act. we ll have an update just ahead. victory in court for french president emmanuel macron on pension reform, but at what political costs as the protests continue. and in california, winter of torrential rain and snowfall is revived a long dead lake and in the process destroyed vast stretches of farmland will take you to the scene of a climate catastrophe. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with michael holmes. the us government moving quickly with its prosecution of that suspected leaker of classified documents. one day after his arrest, 21 year old air national guardsman jack teixeira, formally charged under the espionage act, the leaks exposed to a wide range of highly classified information, including eavesd
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