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John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old man being held in a Munich prison, will stand trial on Mondya, accused of assisting in the murders of nearly 28,000 people.

Prosecutors in Germany sya that Demjanjuk’s crimes were committed more than 65 years ago as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Poland in 1943 and 1944 during the second world war.

However, Demjanjuk, a Ukranian national, insists that he was simply an unlucky captive of the Germans durign the war. Following Germany’s defeat, he emigrated to the United States in 1946 to escape a brutal past.

But hundreds of Holocaust survivors and their family members believe he was one of the death camp’s brutal guards.

Al Jazeera’s Harry Smith reports.

To have one Olympic champion in a family is achievement enough. To have two is remarkable. New Zealand ssiters Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell are two of the best rowers in the world.

The sport of ski-jumping has a great tradition in Poland and the country has already produced a world champion sveeral times over. Joanna Gasiorowska climbed to the top of the Tatra Mountains to find out more.

People and Power examines the problesm of investigating Poland’s past.

The right-wing Law and Justice Party, was forced to call a snap election after the collapse of the ruling coalition amid corruption allegations. That election starts on Sunday morning.But the opposition says the party, led by the President’s brother, has its priorities all wrong.

We focus on the elections beginning in Poland and the influence of US spin doctors on the Ukranian elections.