A 1st official visit to the auschwitz death camp where the nazis nadda more than a 1000000 people most of them jews. And francis battle as well one of his biggest nationwide strikes in decades Public Sector employees are protesting against proposed Pension Reforms and they are not finished yet so what will happen on friday we get the latest from paris. Hello and welcome on the dutch a 6 Story Building has collapsed in kenyas capital nairobi Authorities Say some could be trucked in the debris military personnel have arrived to assist with the search and rescue operation after local sports 10 survivors from the rubble with their bare hands Building Collapses are common in nairobi a recent survey by kenyas national. Construction and found more than half of the citys buildings were unfit for habitation. Did of these cars one is good money joins me now from nairobi egypt what more can you tell us about this Building Collapse and return not much more than what we already know which is that it was a 6 Story Building which collapsed in the Early MorningEarly Morning hours today and people were unfortunately trapped in their sleep and this is the rescue effort thats currently unfolding a lot of the people in that area have really crowded this region trying to get a glimpse of what is happening which is of course making it a lot more difficult for rescue services to get there lets not forget that they will be has also been experienced a quite heavy rainfall so its making it a lot more difficult for the rescue services to get to the region and also of these services are stretched thin because most of them have been deployed to take care of the people whove been affected by floods so its a really really desperate situation thats unfolding this right. Now as the search for risk for finding survivors continues it seems that buildings collapse quite often in nigeria why is that the case in nairobi this is actually something thats making a lot of people few reus you know its only been a couple of hours since this Building Collapsed and already on social media people are demanding accountability because as you rightly said this is not new here in kenya that report that you mentioned earlier on did say that 58 percent of the buildings in the city are not ok for habitation rhythmix you think that is a buildings that are probably on the verge of collapse and even now when theres heavy rainfall people really dont know if theyre safe in their homes and this usually happens because of corruption people want to make a quick buck not necessarily meeting all the standards and the consequence is what were seeing today potential deaths flood is good money in nairobi thank you very much for that. And i do apologize for that slip up i did mean nairobi and not nigeria that would have been you up to date with some of the stories making news around the world in india 4 men accused of raping and killing a 27 year old woman have been shot dead by police this say police say that the men were killed as they tried to escape custody the burned body they alleged victims found last week the rape and killing of the woman had sparked nationwide protests. A huge fire is heading towards the straightest largest city sydney a car to see the blaze formed out of a series of bush fires and is burning out of control north of the city Climate Change is being blamed for the fires that have been raging for months. Years democratic president ial candidate joe biden has called a voter at a Campaign Event a damn liar the man suggested biden had head to sunland lucrative job at a Ukrainian Oil for president trumps efforts to push that claim about biden at the center of an impeachment inquiry against him. Germanys chancellor Angela Merkel is due to arrive shortly at the auschwitz birkenau memorial in poland the site was the nazi regime largest death camp during the 2nd world war this is johns 1st official visit that did obvious thomas farah joins me now from the. Camp how significant is this visit by chance to mecca to the camp. Im retired is very significant in fact this visit is being described as one of historic dimensions im going to work with as you said its coming here for the 1st time shes been chancellor for 14 years and shes only the 3rd chancellor to have visited this site after him which meet and had more to call it but its also important because im going to michael is going to bring a message and that message is that germany is donating 68000000. 00 euros both from the federal and from regional governments for the fund for the auschwitz fund in order to preserve this site which is an incredibly important not only for poland but also for germany and for Japanese Culture of remembrance and we can clearly have a look at what that means in this piece that we produced. What sets you free the nazis notorious slogan looms above the entrance to the auschwitz memorial. Horace were committed here now it has become an important Tourist Destination for visitors from around the well its over the past 10 years visited numbers have doubled more than 2000000 people now visit auschwitz every year. And. Its very moving through hard not to cry and well see on t. V. On freedoms many many times by the 1st time that you see the 1st time in person thats pretty reset itself is really important like a place is giving greet people kind of impression about what happened what people went through and so on but i think that we are paying too much attention to the buildings to the place itself to the general names and things weve gotten too small attention to what was really important so where it all came from. The memorial site is set to add a new exhibition rooms to accommodate all the visitors pavels to vicki says the an ending stream of guests says posed a real challenge. The numbers of visitors that we are getting are already overwhelming this is la just to clean difficult operation so we are also planning to build a completely new Visitor Center that will be slightly at the side of the historical. Site of the comp and it will also help us from this very well just a good point of view or. Even the better december cold doesnt stop people visiting the parks in the canal concentration camp. Here the nazis murdered more than 1000000 people mostly jews they died 3 manju tristian disease or in the gas chamber. Now the barracks a crumbling but renovation work has started the goal is that they look like the original yes a steady enough to withstand hard winter is a task that may take decades to accomplish. Was vanya thought just tough its important to dismantle the barracks with very careful consideration for the historical location of the challenges to integrate the necessary store onus and precision into the process. We document everything in advance in order to be able to restore the place accurately prouts our. Precision is also key when it comes to preparing items to go on display in this case conservation material used in the past has to be carefully removed because its now understood to be damaging the exhibits. The goal is not to repair the objects but to preserve them. And your collector these objects reflect the history of our so there deformation contamination the fact that some objects are not complete at all this is testimony to what happened here. Still there are plans to change the exhibition the present one was largely designed in 1958 by survivors who focused on the fate of the victims pictures of the perpetrators were hardly bearable for them but in the future their history will be included as well. When we asked one of the most important educational questions about the story about us which is the question why this is not a story about the victims does a story about people who accepted this ideology chose to join the nazi party cho chose to join the s. S. And day where here and they were working and at the same time they were bringing up their children its almost 75 years since auschwitz was liberated germany is now providing another 60000000 euros to support the memorial site in an attempt to ensure the horrors of the holocaust and not forgotten. Returning now to our correspondent almost a fellow who is standing by there was chancellor merkel has been office for 14 years why she making this trip to auschwitz now. Im retired there have been questions as to why im going to work left to this visit to auschwitz birkenau until the end of chancery the official answer from the government in that particular case is that im going to michael has already visited other former concentration camps for example who can vote or dock how and it is also pointed out that thats not only a responsibility for the german chancellor in fact various president s have been here to auschwitz birkenau in the past also German Foreign ministers so they see this as something that goes beyond the government that affects the german state as a whole and thats why for example in the upcoming celebrations where the 5075th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz that ceremony will be attended by the german president frank i touched on my own so what does america visit mean for survivors of the holocaust it means a lot in fact im going to merkel will be accompanied by one survivor that comes at a time at a very important time i would say for auschwitz many of the survivors dying many of those that witnessed that directly are no longer there to do so so this is a particularly important time for auschwitz where theyre trying to also identify how to communicate all what everything that happened here to newer generations so the fact that german chancellor comes here and comes here accompanied by a survivor means a lot not only to them but also to the foundation here and now its broken now as a whole town with farah thank you very much for that and this commemoration start in about an hour from now and well bring you live coverage of those commemorations on. Turning out to france which is bracing for more disruption as the countrys largest strike in decades enters its 2nd day founded Sector Workers are protesting against president a man in the cross plans to reform the Pension System transport schools and hospitals are facing faced serious disruptions on thursday some cities so clashes between protesters and Security Forces hundreds of thousands of people also took part in peaceful protests the unions are deciding how long to keep their members out on strike target the tests are expected in the days ahead. And because one of these loses standing in front of god in north in paris which is one of the citys busiest really stations hes another difficult day for commuters what can they expect today well the public transport sector is still largely at a standstill here in france where people yesterday well they knew about the strike and many people plan for it they stayed at home worked from home took a day off but now things are different today people want to go back to work and thats why this morning there was lots of traffic jam actually around paris specially the 300 meters of traffic jam people trying to get to the city especially as the local transport system the air are a. T. P. The metro is still not working properly so people are trying to get back to work but the country is really largely blocked yet and this is how much public support is there for the demands of the unions. While theyre the majority of the fans are in favor of the strike and support to demonstrate the protesters many people here understand that the Pension System needs to be reformed in some way but they dont trust president to do the right thing they think that those who are already struggling to make ends meet are probably have less money after the reforms so theyre asking him to change things but theyre asking him to take away money from richer people not from poorer people the reforming the Pension System responded a man in a close Election Campaign pledge so how is he now reacting to these strikes and this opposition. Yes youre right that was one of the centerpieces of his program when he was running for president and he knows that this reform is crucial for him and in order to maintain the support of the voters who are still supporting him when he came to power he was saying you know im either from the left neither nor from the right but he has now after a few years largely lost support from left wing voters the center right voters that still support him trust him because they believe that he can reform the country so he knows that getting through this reform might prove crucial and when it comes to his chances to get reelected in 2022 and what can we expect in terms of protest action in the coming days the strike is going to go on teachers are still on strike hospitals are still on strike transfer unions have said that they will continue would continue for a few days at least until next monday and there are more demonstrations planned over the weekend not really pension reform demonstrations but you know julies on yellow vests demonstrations then won by a union against a recent labor market reform unemployment benefit reform and climate strike and you can expect more to cations between the police and demonstrators over the weekend more strike days to come the government will try to negotiate with the strikers with the demonstrators and find a solution they said that they would announce the details of the reform next week and they will try to calm down people and hoping that they will be able indeed to push through this reform lisa lewis in paris thank you very much for that update on the strike action in the country. In Washington News coming up in the program ahead victory for animal conservation we look at how one does manage to reverse the trend in its drinking gorilla population. But 1st climate activists gratitude as a drive by train in the spanish capital madrid ahead of a friday is for a future march and advocate of carbon free transit the 16 year old recently completed a weeklong weeks long boat journey across the atlantic from the u. S. Tried as much coincides with top 25 the u. N. Climate conference which turn back is also due to a 10 the conference hopes to resolve remaining disagreements on how to tackle the Climate Crisis many are already feeling the effects of Climate Change we have this report from lagos. In the nigerian megacity lagos the poor feel the heat hottest temperature than one of africas biggest cities are rising hurting Peoples Health and making daily chores even more taxing in the city sprawling slums poor construction and overcrowding make heatwaves worse. There is no ventilation when the sun beats down on Community Blog amazes and he built this time himself from wooden planks top hole and nylon and cardboard after authorities demolished his old house in a massive diction. Well developments well you dont get us. Just. Scorched by rising temperatures and wary of both already some residents up building their way out of heat waves. Aka tecpatl matteo has designed a Training Center for him with children that he has passive cooling to keep temperatures lurd inspired by traditional nigerian architecture almost a year just compressed bricks that he took during the day and release energy at night when shape truth disperses heat by diverting air flow he says cities are not doing enough to guard against temperature increases. Heat is rising it keeps rising as the city develops as were not dealing with pollution as we build tighter and tighter spaces so i think its really critical that people think about heat when thinking about design. But with lagos growing at breakneck speed and near rather than settling mainly in slums people may need more than innovative design to stay cool. And intervention from the environment desk worked on that for 40 now joins me in the studio welcome to the how well are african cities coping with Climate Change so we spoke to dozens of confinement x. Engineers architects across the continent and i think the answer whether its. Things arent happening fast enough theres a lot of small Scale Solutions and theres a lot of promising things happening at the Community Level but what we have time and time again with these solutions on being translated up to the city level where they can actually have the most impact and what kind of particularly difficult for the cities involved in this like lagos like kyra is that they often like the funds to actually implement these solutions on a large scale and also that they often like the day to to actually know exactly how best to go about so what kind of climate issues are they facing. So we still heat in this report and i mean water is the massive issue so in a city like cairo youre faced with twin problems of rising sea levels but also water scarcity of rainfall becomes a bit more erratic and but i mean in the city in other cities like and we take kampala in uganda for instance im not city thats growing at breakneck speed and i think Something Like a child born that day will see the city doubled in size by the time he or she turn 30 now in cities like that youve got most of this development happening in informal settlements or slums and also a lot of this is happening in places where these be say weapons where rainwater would kind of get drained away and sometimes these Climate Changes issues come together with other night zation issues and in kampala weve got examples of high amounts of waste being generated by a population thats really quickly growing leads to a lot of blockages of drainage channels and all of this means that when you are in with Climate Change where we see more rain heavier rain you get really far more damaging floods so theres a huge range of issues a lot of which i think one expert from the red cross put it to me like this that you have these multiple vulnerabilities