the jury takes the w. . this is the w. news live from berlin and anti semitic crimes on the rise in germany now statistics show that hate crimes against jews are at their highest level in a decade sparking alarm among the country's jewish community. also coming up the girl whose pains moved to the worlds and strengthens the movement to end the vietnam war now unesco goodwill ambassador and

a peace activist she is receiving the peace prize awarded by the german city of dresden. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the number of anti-semitic crimes committed in germany has risen by almost ten percent over the past year the highest level in a decade figures released today are causing alarm in jewish communities violence attacks are up by more than sixty percent this has prompted germany's central council of jews to call for stronger action from police and politicians the signboards of a jewish restaurant smashed a pig headed marked with a star of david dumped by a door swastikas and stars of david on a wall. this was the aftermath of an anti semitic attack in the eastern german city

of chemists in august twenty eighth. it was just one of more than sixteen hundred anti semitic crimes committed in germany last year that's an increase of ten percent on twenty seventeen particularly worrying the number of violent incidents like this one in berlin has increased by two thirds. i am concerned but not really surprised it fits with what i hear from jewish organizations and representatives when i talk to them that. it should give us the impetus to take preventative action soon and to make sure that anti semitism does not arise in the first place. that. much of this hatred comes from far right supporters but experts say some of it derives from opposition to israel including from migrants from the muslim world and germany is not alone and he semitic incidents are becoming more common in other countries to france this

week reported a rise of more than seventy percent in twenty eighteen compared with the previous year. and is unfortunately anti-semitism is on the advance everywhere in europe we need to find european solutions i support the idea of making the fight against anti-semitism a priority for the german e.u. presidency next year. another part of the picture in germany is that the jewish community is growing and demonstrations of solidarity with them by non jews are common while most germans recognize that from the holocaust comes a special responsibility to protect jews there is sadly still a minority ready to turn violent aggression against them. and staying in germany police have arrested two syrian citizens thought to be former members of the syrian regime's secret police federal prosecutors here say that they are suspected of having committed crimes against humanity including torturing prisoners at

a facility in damascus let's get the latest now on the story we're joined by political correspondent maximillian akashic who is standing by for us what is believed to have been done by these men. so the accuser strongly believed her strongly suspected to have committed crimes against humanity according to german authorities both men of syrian citizenship have been members of the syrian secret service between two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve then left the country that far is known and according to german authorities also one of the two men has been responsible for running a prison in the outskirts of damascus where torture has been taking place the other man who's been working together with the other was working on signposts on roads where arrests have been taken place and the arrests that have and then taken to said prison. so what reaction has there been from the german government from

politicians. the german justice minister of the social democrats cause or in a body has welcomed the arrest saying that of course crimes against humanity can and should indeed be prosecuted here in germany that is before when the only comment or other spokesperson have referred to the chief federal prosecutors currently investigating the matter but we also heard from independent of service who've been saying it's no surprise that such arrests are taking place in germany now because we've had an influx of refugees coming from syria to germany and of course there's also people who have been allegedly pods of the syrian regime who could come to germany as well and one of the commentators has been a qassam from the european center for constitutional and human rights who's been commenting on that today let's have a listen it was for us always a question of time. that someone is down to fight and would be.

shoes tend to run arrested and most probably indicted and put on trial in germany or and other european countries any of those trials. all of. to to point to what has happened and is happening in syria and that important thing i mean. it seems that assad and his people have won the war and they want peace and it's to big to rasputin and what we claim is that there cannot be any kind of peace without justice. where this is quite interesting because the efforts that have been taking place towards the arrests that was taking place yesterday has been done by both german and french authorities and there have been in the past and with this arrest they will certainly come forward again claims or or ques that the international community will prosecute the assad regime for crimes against humanity even former members of the international criminal court

have been asking the secure the international the united nations security council to prosecute these crimes and with germany being currently nonpermanent member of the security council the united nations and taking the lead in april of interesting to see how germany will be reacting on this arrest on the international scene maximillian akashic thank you. and let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world the u.s. vice president of the israeli president and the u.s. secretary of state are taking part in the middle east security conference of more saw the talks are being co-hosted by the united states and poland but they're marked by high profile absences of a wrong china russia and the palestinians germany and france are present but have not sent their top diplomats. according to iranian media at least twenty members of the country's revolutionary guard have been killed in

a suicide attack in southeastern iran the suicide bomber reportedly struck a bus carrying the elite troops on the road between the city. and cottage in the system baluchistan province. spain's prime minister petro sanchez could be set to call snap elections after parliament rejected his government's draft budget sanchez has been depending on capital and separatist lawmakers to get his spending . but they withdrew their back there after the government runs out talks on capital and the. us president donald trump says that venezuelan authorities are making a terrible mistake by refusing to allow u.s. humanitarian aid into the country and warns that washington quote had options as comments come during a visit by the colombian president yvonne touquet their talks are expected to focus on the crisis on that as well. were germany's interior minister says that he wants

to change legislation to tighten restrictions on foreign telecom providers horsed as a whole for his proposals would require companies to obtain security certification in germany and to sign no spying agreements berlin is considering the chances as it's assigns whether to allow china's while way to take part in development of its five g. network the telecoms equipment manufacturer is accused of being too close to the chinese government and the military. connecting the world at high speed it's all in five g. and chinese companies are dominating the market for the latest telecom took knology two of them c.t.e. and competitor who always banned in the u.s. but still hopeful to get into the e.u. market. which is what i don't know the release of four or five g. products is just waiting for telecom carriers to announce their commercial network in very few key. standards for their terminals of the with you that have neither of which will. but it's become difficult for hallway to sell goods these days the

company's close relationship to the chinese government and military has brought up accusations of spying china are strongly denies these accusations. in the eighty's and neither the united states nor any of its allies have brought up any solid evidence that can prove one way poses a threat to their national security their reason this nothing more than the issue of china's national intelligence long. or. indeed there is no proof but governments have become cautious germany is discussing tightening telecommunication laws and making one way sign a knows by agreement poland is on the fence and under direct pressure from the u.s. to ban huawei to. we've also made clear that there are a certain set of decisions that it would be more difficult for the united states and for the french to work alongside of that pump ailment the same threat in

hungary in slovakia it could block huawei from important markets and make it difficult to e.u. countries to bring their networks up to speed. every year the german city of dresden remembers the intense bombing that it endured during world war two as part of that remembrance the city awards the dresden peace prize this year's winner is the peace activist kinfolk ponty whose picture taken during the vietnam war became one of the most famous war photos of all time today he is going to kettles once addressed him to meet her. is to say that home will to be the recipient of such a thing that this team was a word. with so much meaning behind it can focus famous for being the subject of the photograph. before a group of such power that it galvanized public opinion around the world about the

war in vietnam and helped change the course of history. ovoid. oh boy totally. my ph you know my mouth my i guess my body is the worst moment of human being. as a little girl i felt so embarrassed why i was make it and my brothers my cousin was close on. i just stood there and i turned my hat and i saw it fall bombs landing lead that fire was everywhere and the fire actually

bird my clothes. i was nine you know and i remember i thought oh my goodness i got burned so i would be out. and so people always see me a different way of course that moment that picture that day and my life what i have. now i know i have a pitcher i am not. feeling embarrassed like before. but not much today until the moment when i have a child i love my boy i never won the children suffer like that little girl. is me. and so from that point is it's really touch me and that picture became soul powerful give for me.

if everyone can learn to live with love with hope and forgiveness absolutely we don't need war. if. you can do it so everyone can do it. everyone can do it too that was kinfolk speaking with you that is going to get. the u.s. space agency nasa says that its space rover opportunity has completed its mission in time firming up the probe is dead after fourteen years of service on mars in that time the opportunity rover uncovered inches of water on the red planet's surface and sent back over two hundred thousand images the probe once silent eight months ago after it was engulfed in

a giant dust storm if you are. watching t.v. news still to come on the program the e.u. agrees on new rules for boyd street to the controversial pipeline project to bring gas from russia germany despite u.s. opposition. all that more coming right up my colleague jenelle dumas on the will join you for that and a whole lot more i'm sara kelley in berlin thank you so much for joining me this hour every. crimes against humanity. civilians become with six. other recorders which is travel around your social media. what is propaganda. what is fact.