this is g w news live from berlin u.s. president donald trump has threatened to release captured fighters from the so-called islamic state if europe doesn't take them and his demand comes after he made a surprise claim in december that the militant group had been defeated and announced that the u.s. the u.s. troops would be withdrawn from syria. and the u.s. and iran traded verbal blows as the munich security conference draws to an end iran's foreign minister condemns american policy on iran accusing washington of ignoring his country's right to self-determination he made the comment after u.s.

vice president mike pence demanded that europe take a tougher stance against tehran. and mutual benefit pakistan needs investments and saudi arabia needs friends the saudi crown prince lands in pakistan at the start of an asian tour as his country faces international criticism over the merger and his job culture of jeet. welcome to the program on nick spicer. u.s. president donald trump called on european states to take back their citizens if they are among captured fighters from the so-called islamic state in a tweet that mentioned britain france germany and other countries trying threaten to release imprisoned combatants if their home countries refused to allow them back in december he alarmed western partners by saying he was withdrawing american

troops from syria because he considered the islamic state to have been defeated. by us jihadists on the march in syria these images from the fall of rock in twenty fourteen. islamic state has since been defeated here and across nearly the entire country many fighters are dead and more have been taken prisoner recently the u.s. backed kurdish led syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. besieged the city of backcross the last remaining iowa stronghold the kurds say hundreds of foreign fighters remain in kurdish prisons their wives and children live in camps in northern syria the s.d.f. have long complained that european states are refusing to take back their own citizens u.s. president donald trump has echoed those concerns and has even threatened to release the jihadists he tweeted the united states is asking britain france germany and

other european allies to take back over eight hundred isis fighters that we captured in syria and put them on trial the caliphate is ready to fall the alternative is not a good one and that we will be forced to release them. europe hasn't yet come up with a clear response over the future of foreign fighters and their families. this i guess militant from germany is being held in a detention center in syria like others he'd like to return home but berlin hasn't said what it intends to do with him also unclear the fate of the fighters wives some of them say they don't regret joining the terror group but now wish to return i don't regret it because. it's. so. you know. i wouldn't. have my kids. i did have a good time. to prosecute or rehabilitate the question of how to deal with returning fighters and

their families will remain a major challenge for european countries. and with us now to shed some light on this news as many as one hundred investigative reporter reporter who is was following the story what are we to make of trump's calls for europe to take back state fighters are they justified. i think minus a bad style like blasting themselves out in a tweet and minus a language which is bordering to say the least on blackmail i think whether you like it or not trump has a point basically he's just lending the weight of the us presidency to something that kurds that p.g. and. say me autonomous northern syrian could region have demanded all along and that is that europeans take back their foreign fighters because it's a huge burden on the kurds to look after them excuse me and to have them in the

camps to feed them and to make sure they don't escape the thing is that putting them on trial is easier said than done because in european courts you have to prove the individual guilt and. very often though this is done by just you know you're. claiming of a prosecutor general is doing best by trying to prove at least save been members of a foreign terrorist organization so that would put behind bars for a couple of years when she has there been any reaction from european governments to this tweet. well that they have been super reluctant apart from france actually france says couple of days ago already announced that they are willing to take back about one hundred thirty fighters and their families because they also you know wives and children involved who are now in those camps but the germans

and as a definition of being i'll try and this proposal the germans are sort of dragging their feet as they have been all along the germs tried to a ha ha it's sort of behind formalities if they well we don't have a embassy anymore in damascus so we don't have consular support for those who are detained and we don't have to play magic relations with a could but in my eyes that's just sort of. if you if you excuse me that's supposed to see hiding behind the real credit formalities if i may really quickly what are we going to do what are european governments going to do quite apart from france with the women who want to join the fighters in syria and they didn't fight and some of them had children while there how do you deal with those people. i think i mean there's no other option but really to take them back even if we don't like it they are citizens of germany or france of great britain and they actually

do have a right to come back and unless we able to prove that they have participated in atrocities themselves they have a right to return but of course sorties do have to keep an eye on them we know of you know what they call system that works some of those who return this lucian but some are still sticking very much to the audio all the geo these laws like. the branch of islam and. they try to spread it you know within closed ok mathias thank you for that. iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif has delivered a defiant speech at the munich security conference he condemned calls from washington for the european union to abandon the iran nuclear deal and he accused the u.s. of meddling in the middle east his remarks rounded out

a contentious conference where german chancellor angela merkel and u.s. vice president mike pence advanced opposing visions on iran and the direction of their nation's foreign policies but it has to do more for iran's foreign minister mohammad sorry for sharply criticized the u.s. and dismissed vice president mike pence this recent demand that the e.u. withdraw from the nuclear treaty with iran mr pence repeated this course. when he added gently demanded that europe must join the united states in undermining its own security and breaking its obligations but german foreign minister assured his iranian counterpart in direct talks in munich that germany and the you want to stick to the agreement as long as iran does the e.u. wants to enable trade with iran but serif suggests that europe has to do more.

europe needs to be ridding to get rid. if it wants to swim against the dangerous part of the u.s. unit after this. european leaders are already feeling the pressure from the u.s. and mike pence of the n.t. hearing the security conference. the time has come for our european partners to stop undermining u.s. sanctions against his murderous revolutionary regime. chancellor merkel refused to withdraw from the treaty germany feels that it is the only way to money to iran's nuclear program his leave yet it was like in my do we help our common cause our common aim of containing the damaging or difficult influences of iran by withdrawing from the one remaining agreement couldn't even hold on or do we help it more by keeping the small anchor we have in order to maybe exert pressure in other

areas. and. welcome the european commitment but called for more action he added that the nuclear treaty is appropriate at the best that can be achieved how much longer. did abuse chief political correspondent melinda crane has been following the conference in munich she sums up for us what has been a rather fractious security conference this year. the munich security conference title asked the question who will pick up the pieces of an international order that splintering no clear answer has emerged here many speakers did say that multilateral cooperation is essential to address the great crises that the world faces but what really was notable here was polarization just one example the german chancellor spoke on saturday morning making a strong appeal for international diplomacy and cooperation to resolve transatlantic tensions and she called for a vision of security that puts cumin welfare first and prioritizes not just

spending on arms but on economic development and on on environmental sustainability the u.s. vice president chose to. ignored that appeal shortly thereafter. stout germany for its natural gas pipeline deal with russia and the european allies who are seeking to have the iran deal with iran conveyed a little vision of u.s. leadership that basically amounted to putting a strong pressure on nato allies to up their defense spending at the conference opening post spoke on issue guy said that he was chastising world leaders for too often coming here to talk to each other rather than other proceedings the last two and a half days for him out. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world the israeli government says it plans to withhold over one hundred thirty eight million dollars in tax transfers to the palestinian authority over its financial support of jailed palestinian militants israel which collects taxes on

behalf of the palestinian authority says the payments to the militants families encourage violence palestinians have rejected those claims. and the polish prime minister meditation lot of jet ski has canceled his plans to attend a meeting of central european leaders in israel beginning monday warsaw was angered by a comment by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu last thursday he said polls cooperated with the nazis during the german occupation of poland made and yet his office said he was misquoted. the. syrian president bashar al assad has warned kurdish fighters in the country's north that the u.s. will not protect them speaking in damascus assad said the u.s. backed kurdish fighters were mere tools of washington who risks being sold out in december u.s. president donald trump announced his attention to remove american troops from syria

. saudi arabia and pakistan have signed a raft of investment deals worth up to twenty billion dollars for the cash strapped south asian country saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman arrived in pakistan to sign the accords on the first leg of his trip to asia the trip comes as the saudi kingdom's defacto ruler is facing a barrage of international criticism over the killing of saudi journalists. last year. pakistan needs money and saudi arabia needs friends to that end saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon began his trip to asia on sunday night touching down to a red carpet welcome from pakistan's prime minister imran khan. the saudi royal review the military before moving on to cannes residents to confirm the final details of seven separate agreements and memorandums of understanding worth

twenty billion dollars. but also because. the french. needed france. as a friend elite which is why so much pakistan faces a serious balance of payments crisis and hopes the deals will bring its economy back from the brink in recent months saudi arabia has helped keep pakistan's economy afloat by propping up its foreign exchange reserves with a six billion dollar loan that gives islam about breathing room as it negotiates a bailout with the international monetary fund the two day visit to pakistan comes amid high tensions in the region india and saudi arabia's arch rival iran both bordering pakistan have accused islamabad of backing militant groups which have carried out bloody suicide attacks on the soil in recent days. you're watching news

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