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Like before that it was like cousin of a cousin, a friend of a friend, but this time it's like a father of one of my friends has died during these protests. And it's getting closer and closer to home. Gonche Habibzadeh from the BBC Persian Service. We have more on this story on our YouTube channel. Search for BBC News on YouTube and you'll find global news in the podcast section there.

Many European politicians are becoming increasingly hostile to immigration. But Spain's left-wing government is going the other way. It's set to approve a decree granting legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants. It'll apply to those without criminal records who arrived before the start of this year, once they've been in Spain for more than five months. The immigration minister, Elma Saiz, says around half a million people will benefit.

Spain is the nearest European country to Africa, so many migrants come from Africa on small boats smuggled into the country. Also from Asia and the Middle East coming via Africa. But that said, a recent survey suggested the most common nationality of immigrants in Spain are actually or illegal immigrants come from Latin America, particularly Colombia, Peru and Honduras. A lot of those arrived legally but outstayed their visas and

Miksi he ovat siellä? Yksi yksinkertainen syy on se, että heidän on hyvin helppo löytää työtä, vaikka se on ilmainen työtä. Suomessa on hyvin suurta työtä, erityisesti maahanmuutoksessa, rakennuksessa ja huoltovaiheessa. Muistan, kun puhuin Suomessa muutaman vuoden ajan rakennusministeriöstä, ja kun minun kuvauskoneeni oli vaihtunut, hän sanoi, että katsotaanpa, jos emme käyttäisi ilmaisia imigrantteja, niin koko asia pysähtyisi.

So for that reason people still come to Spain, simply because they can find jobs. And if you're eating a Spanish orange or perhaps a tomato, there is a very high possibility it's picked by someone who was there working illegally. Well, you may have hinted at it there, but why would the Spanish government make this offer for people who arrived illegally?

No kyllä, joissain tapauksissa se on vain asiaa praktikaalista. Jos sinulla on niin paljon ihmisiä, jotka työskentelevät ilmaisesti, he työskentelevät ilmaisissa tilanteissa. Ja tärkeintä on, että he eivät tarjoa mitään palkkia. Joten argumentti on, että on parempi ottaa huomioon, että kaikki tietävät, että nämä ihmiset ovat siellä. Yli puoli miljoonaa, ehkä enemmän, työskentelevät ilmaisesti. Silloin he ovat osallistuneet ekonomiin. Ja tietenkin, kyllä, he ovat tuottaneet hallituksen kohdalle.

That said, there is also politics going on here. This policy has been pushed by the junior partner in Spain's ruling coalition, a party called Podemos, which means we can. Podemos have always had a very pro-immigration stance. I've just been looking at their website and they argue that globalization shouldn't mean just free movement of money and goods. It should also mean people. So this is them pushing their policy in government. Paul Moss.

Today marks Holocaust Memorial Day, commemorating the 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis, as well as many other victims of the German occupation in the Second World War. It also remembers other genocides such as Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia. The 27th of January was chosen as it marks the liberation day of the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.

The Polish president will be attending a memorial event there, while in Ukraine President Zelensky has laid a memorial in Kiev to those killed. Here in the UK, the charity, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, is launching a project where schoolchildren can speak to concentration camp survivors via AI. John Maguire met one 95-year-old Susan Pollack. Susan, can you tell me about your childhood in Hungary? We were only two children.

It may seem strange to ask a virtual Susan questions about her long life when sitting beside the real one, but she wanted to demonstrate how she'll be able to answer questions long after she's gone. Remarkable.

The Testimony 360 project gives school children the chance to immerse themselves in a Holocaust survivor's life story. Using virtual reality headsets, they can walk around places from Susan's life, including the Nazi concentration camps, where she was taken as a young teenager. This environment that they placed me in, in Auschwitz, appearing every morning stark naked,

Dr. Mengelein edessä. Tiedän hänen nimensä. Katsomassa, kuka on pysynyt niin paljon vettä ja onko hän edelleen voinut tehdä jotain työtä. En voi kertoa, kuinka inhumaneet ne olivat.

She was filmed answering around a thousand questions, and using artificial intelligence can respond to whatever the students ask. The objective is to educate young people about what previous generations had inflicted and their victims endured.

John Maguire.

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Mr Bovino, who has been pictured hurling tear gas at protesters, is expected to leave the city. At the same time, the fallout from the violence has led the Republican Chris Medell to pull out of the race to become state governor. Here's an extract from the video he posted announcing his decision. Driving while Hispanic is not a crime. Either is driving while Asian. At the end of the day, I have to look my daughters in the eye and tell them I believe I did what was right. And I am doing that today.

Our correspondent Tom Bateman in Minneapolis told us why that announcement is so significant. He is a senior Republican in the state of Minnesota, and so to have him very publicly in a video online calling ICE operations all directed...

from the top of the Trump administration an unmitigated disaster, saying it's expanded well beyond its stated focus. You know, that matters. And clearly he feels strongly enough about this that he is pulled out of the race. But the other point is, he's a Minnesota attorney. He had given legal counsel to Jonathan Ross, who was the ICE agent who had shot dead Rene Good, who, you know, was killed in

melkein kolme viikkoa sitten, ja se on todennäköisesti tullut suuntaan siksi, ja se on tullut aika kontroversiollista siksi. Joten näet nyt jopa vanhempia republikaaneja ympäri valtioita, kuten Oklahoma-järjestäjä, joka esittää yksinkertaisesti kritiikkiä ja huolta Trumpin hallituksesta tässä. Ja minusta White House, ja Trump itsekin, radari on aina vaihtunut siitä, mitä alue on tunnistamassa.

I think they know that his poll rating is suffering because of this immigration drive. All this crucial context for the decision of Greg Bovino, a hugely controversial figure, to leave the state. Yeah, and I mean, we've just been down at a hotel where the protesters say he is staying and decided well over a hundred of them tonight to show up.