it's company and it's really on the top and you know. this is news coming to you live from berlin a major policy reversal by the u.s. president donald trump signs an order to end family separation at the border with mexico to trump u. turn comes amid growing outrage over the policy of separating children from their parents who enter the u.s. illegally also coming up prosecuting alleged torture by the assad regime human

rights lawyers finally get their case heard in germany but will the suspects still believed to be in syria ever be called. and on day seven of the soccer world cup in russia spain joined the first teams to go through to the knockout round with a b. to read in a tight battle we'll have that and the rest of the action. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us all it took was his signature u.s. president donald trump had insisted he was powerless to stop the separation of immigrant families at the country's southern border but he has now issued an executive order to reverse course trump's move means that families entering the u.s. illegally will now be tains together it's a rare policy retreat for the u.s. president only days of public outrage. you don't have

a lot of happy people. it was that easy president trump effectively reversing a policy that has separated thousands of children from their parents and kept them in conditions critics have called in to maine and even evil. this is trump's new zero tolerance immigration policy in action. illegal immigrants are now being prosecuted as criminals and can be imprisoned for an indefinite amount of time the children that cross the border illegally however can only be detained for a maximum of twenty days under u.s. law the policy to separate children from parents was designed to get around that problem and critics all give to send a stark message to families thinking about making the journey. as the numbers of

detained children grew in recent weeks so too did the wave civil position from dozens of cities across america to congress. let's go back to a time a steady and decency in america when children where respect it love the children mr president the dad for once it's been going on for six as the blowback intensified including from members of trump's own republican party trump relented signing an executive order to do what his administration had been saying for weeks it couldn't we're signing an executive order. i consider to be a very important executive order it's about keeping families together while at the same time. making sure that we have a very powerful very strong border and border security will be. equal if not greater than previously so we're going to have strong very strong borders but we're going to keep the families together. although this solves one problem for his

administration it creates another children will now be kept with the. families in detention but because the children can't be detained for more than twenty days the trumpet ministration is headed to the courts asking a federal judge to allow children to be detained alongside their parents indefinitely for as long as the prosecution takes. our correspondent claire richardson is in san diego california near the us mexico border she's been gauging reaction to trump's policy reversal. the majority of americans have never supported the idea of separating children from their parents when they cross the u.s. border so you can imagine that this reversal has been very welcome here indeed now the immigration rights organizations that i've been speaking to here in san diego say that it doesn't go far enough they want to see more comprehensive reform to the immigration system they want to see an end to the war on drugs that they say fuels instability and drives people up to the border and they say that they want to

silence seekers it to be seen as people who are fleeing terrible violence not as criminals who need to be locked up they say that one a silver lining of all of this is that outside of latino communities in the united states perhaps it has raised public awareness of the plight of these people and they hope that that will translate into more comprehensive immigration reform you know he is claire richardson there near the us mexico border well let's cross over to washington now where our correspondent custom phenomena standing by cost of present trouble is now reversed his policy of separating children from migrants at the border but will this do anything to help the thousands of children who've already been taken from their parents. no it doesn't and that is one of the problems with this executive order maybe there will be efforts to reunite those children with their parents but maybe not the executive order doesn't say anything about it and then there's this other problem the fact that children cannot

be detained in detention centers for more than twenty days and what happens after that is also not right now basically an old record ruling says. basically the kids should be released probably so that is something that trump ministrations doesn't ones would they then separate those kids from the families again and send them to foster homes although it is unclear right now there's a lot of finger pointing going on in washington right now because of the president said don't blame me for this policy blame the democrats but house minority leader nancy pelosi she threw the blame right back at trump take a listen and here we are bringing our concerns to the steps of the capitol once again once again to say to the president of the united states how low can you go what is the measure of your character your compassion and your commitment to

a better america what you would advocate a policy that which children from the arms of their parents their mothers and or their fathers. accustomed according to polls a majority of americans share view about trump on this issue is trying to climb down here a major defeat for the president. i think you can say that although donald trump of course would never admit that but clearly had to do something here which he did want to do up until yesterday he seemed determined to double down on his iraq tolerance policy. clearly then he was convinced by republicans to change a course on the trump clearly wanted to use these children as a bargaining chip to force congress and the democrats in congress to agree to

strict immigration laws and to give him money for his border wall but many republican senators and members of congress and governor spoke out against that they feared that this was not look good for them and even many others who are normally leaning towards republicans like business executives and religious leaders even if angelical christians would normally support this president no matter what they all spoke out against this and this is why don't the trump had to back down cost and thank you so much for now his custom for nolen there in washington. now to syria where alleged evidence of alleged torture by the regime has emerged but the international criminal court hasn't been able to act because syria is not a member and russia blocked efforts to have the united nations security council refer the case now there is hope for those seeking justice germany is taking on the

case we'll talk to our correspondent in the middle east in just a moment but first this report. and he was jailed simply for doing his job he served five years in a syrian prison for his work as a human rights lawyer trying to bring torture charges against officials in assad's regime now he's in berlin collecting testimony from people who say they've been tortured and building a case against the syrian government he's handed it all to the public prosecutor. this is his target jamil hassan leader of the syrian air force secret service germany is now trying to arrest him now but he says it's a victory for victims seven years no day waiting for some hope of somebody care about their suffering and nobody care now they find this hope and you cannot imagine how. the action of this

victims or the syrians at all how it's was really. he hasn't used to be an engineer now he's witness number twenty four back in syria he protested against assad he was imprisoned and tortured in a syrian air force jail the same jail the jamil his son was in charge of. you can't know if it's now day or night you know if you will eat after two or four hours or you are allowed to sleep different you are not allowed to speak. syud ny is syria's most notorious prison what happens behind closed doors here is not seen but we know what the results look like a military photographer smuggled out pictures of the dead when he defected each of his photos suggest systematic torture. geopolitics have prevented the international criminal court from taking action bashar al assad is

protected by his alliance with russian president vladimir putin's. melburnian his team have found a willing partner in berlin germany is the only country to consider pressing charges under the principle of universal jurisdiction enabling any country to prosecute war crimes no matter where they've been perpetrated. damage what they can with this germany's chief prosecutors have made a huge step ahead of other nations other countries should see this as an example of what action they could take because this task cannot rest solely on the shoulders of the german judiciary on its a baby will be. to prove to european and to themselves justice as principle it's not under the control of party that it's very important to us untoward the case represents a strong signal from germany's judiciary to president assad suspected war criminals and torturers will be prosecuted. we were hoping to talk to our correspondent in

beirut about the story we're having some technical difficulties there we have to bring her in later on in the program now to some of the other stories making news around the world today south sudan's president salva kiir and the country's rebel leader rick much char have held peace talks in neighboring ethiopia it's the first meeting between the two warring leaders since a peace deal collapsed in two thousand and sixteen tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced in the country's five years of war. brazilian authorities have destroyed thousands of weapons in the capital rio de janeiro part of a security campaign to get guns off the city's streets some of the weapons were seized from criminals others were handed over voluntarily. and a nine hundred sixty two ferrari is set to become the most valuable car ever to be offered for public sale the two hundred fifty g.t.o. racer is expected to fetch more than forty five million u.s.

dollars at auction in august it was one of only thirty six examples of the model built by the famed italian carmaker. both speaking in cars one of germany's luxury car makers finds a dent in its bottom line monica terry you talk about a dime low of course and i'm a seems to be feeling the pinch both from the emissions scandal and the escalating trade conflict between the u.s. and china german com make a has issued a profit warning saying costs from chinese terrible cost produced in the united states would take a bite out of their possible line. any next s.u.v.s than expected in the people's republic and then also had to recall some eight hundred thousand diesel vehicles across europe due to emissions cheating dima predicts that before taxes and interest will be below not last year's level of fourteen point seven billion euros . and talking of money finance ministers meet today to discuss greece by the the

time. bail out ns athens would have received more than three hundred billion euros from both the e.u. and the international monetary fund in exchange greece cuts down on public spending and pasta crucial reforms to shore up its economy the aid package to athens is set to expire in late august time for athens to go it alone greece hopes it will soon be able to stand on its own two feet again that's why some of its creditors including the international monetary fund and the european stability mechanism will end their support in august it's a step greece's parliament is already preparing for it passed the latest reform and austerity package in june you were zone finance ministers now want to discuss how they can remove the final roadblocks for greece to reenter the international financial market one idea is to tie greece's future debt payments to its economic development that means that in good years it could chip away at it suffer in debt

more quickly that's something the economic data support greece's g.d.p. had been shrinking for years but since two thousand and seventeen it's been growing the ministers could also decide to extend greece's loans set lower interest rates or even freeze greece's payments for several years but it current rates greece won't have paid off its loans until twenty sixty should the bailouts actually end in august than greece will be forced to raise new funds on the international finance market and to help convince investors to buy greek debt eurozone authorities are discussing giving athens a twelve billion euro financial buffer when the bailouts and. so question is can greece stand on its own feet again that's. chief economist at. bank and he is joining us in a frank good to see you so first of all what do you say is athens ready to go it alone. i think i think he's ready who we've had

a bailout for for eight years we've seen many structural reforms and now we finally also got growth back in greece i think and we also actually by the start of the year that the the greek government was already able to issue a new government bond in the financial markets so i think greece is really ready to send us on feet but clearly from what we just heard you finance ministers don't seem one hundred percent certain at least when it comes to sending athens alone back to international financial markets they're talking about a possible twelve billion euro financial buffer to help after along the way is that enough is that the right mischa the thing is it's very there are many nitty gritty details right now i think what finance ministers are discussing is to give greece a little bit money to for through to buy back some loans that greece received from the i.m.f. we also have a promise which already was made two years ago that that greece once they leave the better package should also get further debt restructuring that is also on the table right now when when funds ministers meet so i think yes greece still needs a push

a bit in the back but way to get the economic fundamentals ends and the structural reforms taken by the greek government i think that greece can stand on its own feet the only other question is will we get any kind of post bailout surveillance so will brussels at least stay in the background to help with the greek government continue with the reform program you just mentioned a debt restructuring and there's also talk about possibly lowering interest rates on greece's debt to a loan repayment open to even freeze those repayments for several years it almost sounds like linda's could be needy and enough to write off debt altogether. you know the thing is writing off debt is a no go in europe we've seen this over the last eight years so what what would be other european countries always trying to do is to find some solutions which would show their own voters that they did not write off that to our money for greece but

so that if they find nice tricks and these tricks can be a further extension of the maturities freezing period we've had it all before it's also be clear and so provide a bit more of the same which would help greece which will also help mr c. for us to show to the greek population that he finally received for the deaf restructuring because that is also what i actually see for us promised the greek population when he entered office ok so listening to you i get the feeling ok that the greek debt drama really seems to be coming to an end slowly but surely so we can now focus on the rest of the euro zone and to chance that i'm going to medical and french president. agreed on a eurozone budget what do you make of that it's a nice small step towards further integration i think it's better than then we hope for a couple of weeks ago when when the looked as if the german government was not willing at all to convert midsomer krunk so it's a nice a step but also it will not be

a stand alone euro zone budget it will be part of the the multi and you will you budget so it will be kind of budget line within the european budget it's only small double digit numbers over over five years horizon so it is more symbolic but it shows that at least merkel and mccraw willing to work together and i think this is the best we can get right now all right cousin economist at a bank in frankfurt thank you so much. to the soccer world cup in russia now and the hosts are all but through to the knockout round with me in the studio to talk about is alina tuckey from d.w. sports good morning alina so russia got off to an incredible start with two wins but in order for them to actually go through to win their group you're a stand in the way just how good does the south american side look they haven't

quite come out of their shell yet i mean they left it made in the open against egypt that of course wasn't the case this time around against saudi arabia thanks to this man right here from a corner in the twenty third may make numerous hours to get his foot on the bar. there you go he just gets his foot on the bar and this is his first goal of the tournament and it happens to be his one hundredth game for his brain. but overall it's a lackluster performance us from have been squeezing by opponents and you really expecting a lot more from a site that's basically made up of the lead a coma drifty fence and with a forward line like far as end edinson cavani interesting joe said let's cross over to moscow where jonathan crane our world cup correspondent standing by jonathan your guys win means saudi arabia and egypt are among the first nations eliminated

from the world cup how much of a blow will that be to fans who travel all the way to russia. well of course there be disappointed nobody wants to go out of the tournament so i rarely do they i think if you're a saudi arabia found the right thing was probably on the wall after that i mean five day five you know the fates against russia they kind of least take some heart from a much improved performance against uruguay i think the more disappointed fans will be. seen so many of them wandering around the streets of moscow with their fairy costumes on they had such high hopes for most sila that's how does the magic strike obviously it didn't help that he missed the first game through injury but he really didn't deliver against russia either he was really kept very quiet in that game so there will be disappointment but look one thing we have noticed at this tournament lots of fans supporting other countries they're just happy to be here for the posse and remember they still have one game left they play each other say one set of fans

could still have something to cheer about come the end of this tournament now there were two groups yesterday you were at the portugal morocco match up but that turned out to be pretty tight. yes i was at the luzhniki which you can see behind me all eyes were on that christiane are now the portugal player he was that cheered and cheered in equal measure by the fans inside the stadium but unfortunately for the u.s. and iraq or it was his goal that sent them out of the tournament. portugal got off to a flying start thanks to you guessed it christiane aren't the real madrid superstar school the only goal of the game in the fourth minute to still three points against morocco. he chops the goal scoring charts once again with four strikes in two games . to win sent his team chopra group be ahead of wednesday's late game and morocco crushing out of the tournament. spain needed

a win to usurp the group leaders and diego costa put them on their way in the fifty fourth minutes the atletico madrid strike is also in the hunt for the golden boot with three goals to his name already i ran full at that level to school in the sixty first minute i but despite the celebrations it wasn't to be i the iowa state didn't spoil the party with a tight but correct offside decision one nil final school. so jonathan a very exciting group b. there are a lot of suspense left in that group are spain and portugal among the contenders for the trophy. they are certainly among the contenders but i would like to ride a big caveat to that because aside from the house russia no team has really set this tournament so right so far and i'm not suggesting for more than minute that russia can go all the way but both portugal and spain can count themselves very lucky to have come away with wins from that too much is yesterday yeah their

partners put up valiant efforts especially morocco i don't know how morocco didn't manage to score yesterday they did everything but their friends were very disappointed after the game and maybe we shouldn't be so surprised because morocco only conceded one goal in qualifying coming into this tournament and wrong went through qualifying be said and iran still have a chance to get through if they beat portugal next week they were their violence instead of portugal and based on what we've seen so far they might fancy their chances. so alina there were no he's done it again for portugal today we've got limo missy's argentina in action is the pressure on messi to do his wife oh the precious so high it is a huge burden on his shoulders his coach even came out saying that the world cup pressure is so intense it's like a gun basically being pointed to his head he has to win this tournament and this of course we get into the debate why has messi international career not been as

successful as his cup korea and it of course you know he lost four finals with argentina at the world cup three copa america finals and he's constantly been combat compared for example tamara donna who single handedly won the world cup watching tina in one nine hundred eighty six and it also doesn't help as jonathan just mentioned that crescendo when although he's overshadowed this tournament he stormed so well for portugal at the moment and yeah there's a reason why it was the goat just you know some people say it was a dig that ronaldo had it messi in the spain game right. now that wasn't the case. that wasn't of course that is that it's a gesture that's very common in in portugal but let's see. a lot of personality being injected into the residence in ali. i'll even talk you printed up your sports and jonathan crane in moscow for us thank you both.

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over the trump administration's so-called zero tolerance policy separating migrant children from their parents. and one of the co favorites for the world cup spain just get past the red and put themselves within reach of the knockout stage. and russia are already confirmed for that round of sixteen. don't forget you can always get all the latest news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store that will give you access to all the just news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the app to send us photos and video. so you news for now i'll be back at the top of the next hour with another full bulletin and of course everything online and t w dot com thanks for.

coming. into the conflict zone there's been plenty of coverage of the thousands of casualties inflicted by israel along its border with gaza but what's been the role of hamas they look like shit my guest is osama from a senior member of hamas is proving folly if the movement deliberately cruel both

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video and audio. w.b.'s. picture. on link. for. the link to exception your story and discussion on the use of these each and while website the deputy comes to join us on facebook . there's been plenty of coverage of the thousands of casualties inflicted by israel along its border with gaza but what's been the role of hamas in the bloodshed the organization runs gaza and is labeled a terrorist group by western countries my guess this week here in beirut is a summer home down a senior member of hamas is ruling politburo did the movement deliberately provoke

israel with no thought at all for the safety of its citizens.