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
use it. i got a bill i just paid and i can t use the water. hello and welcome, it is friday, september 2, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and philadelphia where u.s. president biden says donald trump hand his extremist supporters are a threat to the very soul of the nation. he lasted their election conspiracies, assault on civil rights and calls for political violence. plb i mr. biden is heoping to set the tone for the midterms. reporter: president biden delivered one of the most forceful speeches of his presidency thursday night in philadelphia taking direct aim at donald trump and what he says is the extremism that is coursing through the republican party. maga republicans have made their choice. they embrace anger, they thrive on chaos, they live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies. here in my view is what is true. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. reporter: this message coming nine weeks before the midterm election
of charity, but because the people of ukraine and the future is in our strategic interest. foreign correspondent, richard engel has more from ukraine. reporter: it is not as a traditional piece summit as you would think. russia is not there. they are not negotiators there trying to work out a cease- fire. this is a summit on peace in which president zelenskyy and his close advisors are meeting with allies of ukraine, including representatives of the white house. they are trying to come up with a formulation for a peace agreement. what a future peace agreement could look like that is acceptable to ukraine, that guarantee means their autonomy, security, guarantees security of western countries. a thing potentially could be acceptable to russia, as well. they are trying to come up with terms that they can accept and potentially enforce strata comes on the heels of the 10 year agreements where president biden said the next decades we will support ukraine with money, trainin