Angela Merkel has expressed "deep shame" during her first visit as German chancellor to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust memorial and vowed to fight rising racism and antisemitism in Germany and Europe.

Merkel said the crimes committed at the site in southern Poland where the Nazis ran their largest death camp would always be part of German history.

A ceremony also attended by the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki.

"I feel deep shame given the barbaric crimes that were committed here by Germans," she added.

The German chancellor also pledged a donation of €60m (£51m) towards a fund to conserve the physical remnants of the site of the barracks, watchtowers and personal items of those who died.

Before her speech, Merkel and Morawiecki toured the camp's crematorium where victims' bodies were burned. They walked through the camp's iron gate bearing the motto Arbeit macht frei (Work sets you free) and visited the barracks.

Since becoming chancellor in 2005, Merkel has paid her respects at other Nazi concentration camps, and has been five times to Israel's Holocaust museum and Yad Vashem memorial.

Poland's foreign ministry called her visit "historic" in acknowledgement of the unique status Auschwitz has in the world's collective memory. The ministry also noted it was only the third visit to the camp of an incumbent head of a German government.

No official reason has been given as to why this is the first time in her 14 years in power that she had visited the most notorious of the Nazi death camps. But speculation is rife in Berlin that she was keen to do so ahead of the possible collapse of her government, after repeated threats from the incoming new leadership of her junior coalition partner the Social Democrats to withdraw from government.

A rise in the number of antisemitic attacks in Germany has led to pressure for her to take a symbolic stand, especially following a brutal attack in front of a synagogue in the central city of Halle two months ago, in which two people were murdered by an attacker claiming he was driven by antisemitic motives.

A huge rise in the number of visitors, from about 1 million five years ago to 2.15 million last year, has posed a particular challenge, the memorial's director, Piotr Cywiński, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, saying that visitors often tried to take home objects from the former death camp as souvenirs.

Nazi forces killed an estimated 1.1 million people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex during their occupation of Poland during the second world war. Most of the victims were Jews transported from across Europe to be killed in gas chambers. Tens of thousands of other people were killed there too, including Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and Roma. The camp was liberated by the Soviet army on 27 January 1945.

The global wave of school strikes for the climate over the past year has "achieved nothing" because greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise, Greta Thunberg has told activists at UN climate talks in Madrid.

Thousands of young people were expected to gather at the UN climate conference and in the streets of the Spanish capital on Friday to protest against the lack of progress in tackling the climate emergency, as officials from more than 190 countries wrangled over the niceties of wording in documents related to the Paris accord.

In the four years since the landmark agreement was signed, greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 4% and the talks this year are not expected to produce new commitments on carbon from the world's biggest emitters.

Thunberg, whose solo protest in Sweden in 2017 has since snowballed into a global movement, said that although schoolchildren had been striking around the world, this "has not translated into action" from governments.

Thunberg expressed hope for the UN negotiations but doubted whether governments had got the message, and warned the world could not afford continued inaction.

She hopes COP25 will reach something concrete and increase awareness among people, and that world leaders and people in power grasp the urgency of the climate crisis.

Although young people would keep striking, Thunberg said, they wanted to stop – if governments made credible promises and showed a willingness to act.

As well as the march and a sit-down protest in the conference centre, there were shows of international solidarity among young people from around the world, including a picnic in a central Madrid park. The conference centre was flooded with hundreds of schoolchildren accompanied by their parents, where negotiators were working on a draft text to clarify aspects of the Paris agreement.

Young people voiced their frustration at protests inside and outside the conference centre on the outskirts of Madrid.

Many of the young people joining the conference from developing nations around the world bore personal witness to suffering they had experienced or seen.

A Chilean protest song about rape culture and victim shaming has become a viral anthem for feminists around the world.

Un Violador en Tu Camino – A Rapist in Your Path – was first performed in late November as Chile's nationwide uprising against social inequality pushed into its second month.

Videos of the song – and its accompanying dance moves – quickly went viral, spreading across Latin America and the world, with performances taking place in Mexico, Colombia, France, Spain and the UK.

The song was written by Lastesis, a feminist theatre group based in the city of Valparaíso. It credited Chile's women protesters for helping spread the work around the world.

A Rapist in Your Path is based on the work of the Argentinian theorist Rita Segato, who argues that sexual violence is a political problem, not a moral one.

The lyrics describe how institutions – the police, the judiciary and political power structures – uphold systematic violations of women's rights: "The rapist is you/ It's the cops/ The judges/ The state/ The president."

Another section repudiates the many ways that women are blamed for falling victim to sexual violence ("And it's not my fault / nor where I was / nor what I wore") before concluding: "The rapist is you."

According to statistics compiled by the Chilean Network Against Violence Against Women, 42 cases of sexual abuse are reported each day to the police (approximately two every hour). In 2018, only 25.7% of sexual abuse cases resulted in judicial rulings.

Bárbara Sepúlveda Hales, spokes woman for the feminist lawyer group Abofem said that in the Chilean judicial system, stereotypes and biases harm women victims of sexual violence, and in many trials, the life and sexual behavior of the victim is exposed as if it were a justification for the aggression they suffered.

Although the song was written before the wave of unrest and repression erupted in October, Cometa said that the choreography reflects the crisis in which security forces have faced widespread allegations of rape, torture and shooting to kill.

In one part of the song, performers squat down in an echo of a position which female protesters are forced to assume on arrest. "It's a simple form of torture and punishment carried out by the Chilean police," Cometa said.

Thursday's performance brought together thousands of women, including older chilenas who lived through the dictatorship and their younger counterparts protesting today.

"They held prisoners here, women who were harassed and sexually tortured," said Victoria Gallardo, 71, who was participating in the event. "I cried the first time I heard Un Violador en Tu Camino. I'm so proud of the young women of today – and this performance represents us all."

Deputy Minister of Energy Aset Magauov spoke about the export of Kazakhstan gasoline and its prospects

Magauov said that gasoline exports are dependent on administrative measures to control shadow flows of petroleum products. In the summer, it was predicted that gasoline export would amount to 50-80 thousand tons per month, but only 8-10 thousand could be exported since there was little gasoline. As soon as the order was issued to exclude the unauthorized flow of oil products in the border areas, we see sufficient reserves. In November, we sold 80 thousand tons, in December - 100 thousand tons. Preliminary forecasts are now being made for 2020. Export schedule approved monthly for gasolineице-министр энергетики Асет Магауов рассказал об экспорте казахстанского бензина и его перспективах

In 2020, Kazakhstan intends to export gasoline to Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan due to the convenience of logistics. "Some part goes from the Atyrau refinery to Europe. But now it's too early to talk about the total volume of exports," Magauov added. Journalists also asked about the export of Kazakhstani oil products to Belarus.

"Belarus is more interested not in finished petroleum products. They are more interested in raw materials for processing in the form of oil, naphtha, gas oil, which they could use at their plants. They are interested in oil. The total amount that was announced in the negotiations is more than 3.2 they would like to receive a million tons in the form of oil, gas oil or naphtha by different means of transport. Talks are underway. By agreement, we have reached a consensus. Now we have to go through internal approval procedures with other ministries, a linguistic, Scientific-legal expertise. When we are in terms with the Belarusian side will agree, then we can talk about with colleagues transportation routes from Russia ", - he added.

Emma Stone is usually pretty private when it comes to her romance with Dave McCary, a writer and director on Saturday Night Live. But the couple decided to make their recent engagement news public with a gorgeous Instagram selfie featuring Stone's sparkly new ring.

McCary had untraditional choice of the special piece of jewelry. He opted for a piece by Tokyo-based designer Kataoka, which features a radiant center pearl, rather than the usual diamond. The ring still consists of several diamonds surrounding the 8 mm pearl and dotting the 18k beige gold band.

Katie Zimmerman, the Chief Merchandising Officer of Blue Nile, which is the largest online retailer of certified diamonds and fine jewelry, tells BAZAAR.com, "Emma's beautiful engagement ring is on trend with what we're expecting in 2020. The vintage setting has a sunken floral designed halo with pave accents." Emma Stone's engegement ring "Pearl Snowflake Ring-Supreme" is cost $4,780.00 in kataoka-jewelry.com.

In October 2017, a source revealed to People that Stone and McCary had reportedly been dating "for at least three months." Page Six confirmed that Stone had attended the premiere of McCary's movie, Brigsby Bear, in June 2017, suggesting that they may have already been seeing each other at the time. According to multiple reports, Stone and McCary have dated for just over two years.