Gordon Brown visits Auschwitz

Gordon Brown was today visiting the former Nazi death camps at Auschwitz.

The Prime Minister was to lay a wreath at the spot where at least 1.1 million people were murdered on Hitler's orders.

Mr Brown was due to spend two hours at the site in a semi-private visit after formal talks with Polish premier Donald Tusk and president Lech Kaczynski, covering the deployment of 2,000 Polish troops in Afghanistan.

Mr Brown's four-day foreign tour was overshadowed by an apparent snub by Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari who pulled out of a joint press conference in Islamabad after the Prime Minister described his country as a "breeding ground" for terrorists.