to listen and learn? tovah friedman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a great pleasure to have you with me here in this synagogue. i am mindful that it is 77 years since you, as a six year old girl, were finally freed from auschwitz. why have you chosen to tell the world your story in the form of a memoir now? well, i ve been speaking for a very long time, since i was about a5, 50 years old, i ve been speaking about it. but i always wanted to write because writing is a different experience. and i can tell things that i cannot tell when i m speaking for 45 minutes to a group. this is like i can think about it and bring, bring out the essence of what really happened. i sort of looked around and i saw the world is. it s really a mess, i hate to say that. anti semitism and hatred, and left against right, and right itjust. refugees are wandering the world trying to find a home, everywhere from country to country. and i said, you know, this is a good time for. ..in my ag
it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 7pm in new york where world leaders are taking part in a un meeting which is already being dominated by ukraine. russia s invasion was always going to be at the top of the agenda, but events on tuesday have brought the war into even sharper focus. officials in russian controlled areas in the east and south of ukraine have announced snap referendums onjoining russia. it appears to be part of a push by moscow to accelerate their annexation, in response to serious setbacks on the battlefield. in areas newly liberated by ukrainians forces, disturbing accounts of torture by russian soldiers are continuing to emerge. our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports now from the city of izyum i want to warn you orla s report contains some distressing testimony. in the centre of izyum, the heart of darkness. ukrainian investigators say the russians turned this police station into a torture chamber. we were taken down to the ce
president vuchich said he would take all measures to protect his nation. ethnic serbs in northern kosovo have been demanding the release of a former serbian police officer. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. never has it felt more important to remember the lessons of the greatest crime of the 20th century, the nazi genocide of thejews. europe is again witnessing a war of aggression, anti semitism is on the rise and young people, according to the surveys, have an alarming level of ignorance about the holocaust. well, my guest today is tova friedman, one of the youngest survivors of the auschwitz death camp. now in her 80s, she s written a memoirand is using social media to tell her story. so is the world ready to listen and learn? tova friedman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a great pleasure to have you with me here in this synagogue. i am mindful that it is 77 years since you, as a six year old girl, were fin
against commitments made by the taliban to the afghan people. the un said the ban on women working for aid agencies would have an immediate impact on humanitarian operations. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. never has it felt more important to remember the lessons of the greatest crime of the 20th century, the nazi genocide of thejews. europe is again witnessing a war of aggression, anti semitism is on the rise and young people, according to the surveys, have an alarming level of ignorance about the holocaust. well, my guest today is tova friedman, one of the youngest survivors of the auschwitz death camp. now in her 80s, she s written a memoir and is using social media to tell her story. so is the world ready to listen and learn? tovah friedman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a great pleasure to have you with me here in this synagogue. i am mindful that it is 77 years since you, as a six year old girl, were f
125 people died in the crush. donald trump sues cnn for defamation and damages, claiming the network carried out a campaign of libel and slander against him. and reality tv star kim kardashian is being fined more than $1 million for illegally promoting cryptocurrency on instagram without revealing that she was being paid for it. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. for the first time in five years, north korea has launched a missile overjapan, sparking anger in tokyo. the launch is the fifth in recent days by north korea defying a un security council resolution ban on missile launches. the rocket came down in the pacific ocean and there are no reports of damage. joseph cirincione is an expert in north korean affairs and hejoins me now from washington. thank you for your time. let s start on the trajectory of this missile, straight overjapan, missile, straight over japan, however missile, straight overjapan, however high, still overjapan, assig forg