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the but. this is deja news coming to you live from berlin tension still on the disputed region of kashmir indian security forces clashed with militants leaving several dead on both sides india says the militants counted out last week suicide bombing which killed at least of forty security personnel are also coming up to germany france and britain several book together to deal with captured i asked members who
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travel to syria from europe but they are angry at a trip to ultimatum on the issue comes president donald trump. and give marks five years since the deadly protests of them by don which toppled the country's government is beyond counting much as the country changed since then. the at. i don't welcome i'm on the. for indian soldiers and two militants are dead after a shootout in the disputed border region of kashmir the troops came under fire while carrying out searches following close to suicide bombing in which more than forty security personnel what killed india has blamed neighboring pakistan for last week's attack one of the deadliest in decades baucus on his record its envoy from india amid rising tensions joining me now from delhi is our correspondent nimish i
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gess well firstly what's the latest you can tell up tell us about the fighting in kashmir where indian forces have been exchanging fire with militants. well i'm about it has been confirmed that at least four members of the indian security forces happy lost their lives in an overnight encounter there are scouted out in the pool of ahmed this just a few kilometers from where the actual terror attack on the fourteenth of this month took place there are also reports coming in that at least two would analysts have been killed they are reportedly the boy involved in the attack of the fourteen one of them is in fact instead to be a drop eight or. monda most would have so as well as another terrorist tool that there are reports of him being killed who was actually a top i operate or so this is the first strike back from the indian side after following this attack and this has happened in full bomb and pushed me to the
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diplomatic pressure is growing on pakistan islamabad is recalled its high commissioner from delhi they do see this heading. well i'm a thought it is worth noting that ties between india and pakistan have been strained and start a cli and this abuse the communication between the two countries in trees is going to create a recording to the kind of environment that it's heavily influenced by what's happening in kashmir now there was a major attack on the army back in twenty sixteen as well and over the last two and a half years that i have been very strange after the imran khan government came to bars in pakistan even the national security adviser up in pakistan that position does not exist anymore and that was one of the key channels of communication all of the channels have been very i have been very undermined by this and now that india pressing for pakistan to be isolated internationally the country has been downgraded from a most favored nation status which gives it trade benefits and there are many other a cause that india is making to the international community to designate for
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example masood as a human to the meta deloris sort of definitely a lot of pressure in pakistan to act and to draw all of the of the about that also shows that communications are going to be strained if not completely shut down and at the public the level of english of the outrage in india is also playing out against muslims in the country with people being beaten up and threatened what can you tell us about that. again on both of these thoughts are contested but there is confirmation that on you would support that are saying that many christian students in other parts of the country at least and two states actually had to lock themselves up to save all of this outrage now a lot of the outrage that has poured out on the streets has been directed at pakistan but because of increases in homegrown militancy in the in the state of wish me there have been some pushback against people from kashmir against people living in indian occupied kashmir as well however there's also a counter narrative that a many people who come out on social media on twitter are offering
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a safe haven offering their homes to kashmir to students to kashmir to people outside of bush made just in case they feel threatened so what is coming in from both sides but there definitely is anger. like names had just one in denny thank you very much for that update. new fiction has emerged in transatlantic relations over the fate of european nationals captured fighting for islamic state in syria jim lee says he was with france and britain in response to u.s. demands to repack treat some eight hundred european extremists that's after a tweet from president donald trump threatening to release captured fighters unless europe puts them on trial. 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.
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backed kurdish led syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. besieged the city of 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. repatriation and i as fights as would only be possible if it could be guaranteed that these people could immediately be prosecuted and also detained upon arrival in other
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words if you need information to do that you need to investigate those procedures as long as that is not the case i would find it extraordinarily difficult to carry out. this i asked 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 changed me of the past. so. you know the right of my husband i wouldn't. have my kids. i did have a good time to sit there and. take it. to prosecute or rehabilitate the question of how to deal with returning as fighters and their families will remain a major challenge for european countries. i do discuss this challenge you have with
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me do you have any correspondent found up in just one welcome center now does donald trump have is he making a fair point when he says captured is fighters should face trial in their home countries if they come from europe the european countries should take them back i'm not so sure that twitter is the right way to communicate complicated foreign policy issues but yes he does have a point because frankly why should it kurdish militias controlling the northeastern part of syria be left alone with the problem of foreign fighters you know it's not a state entity it's not their citizens if we want to use this term and if we look at figures i mean yes those eight hundred fighters but we're also talking about class six hundred women plus one thousand two hundred children and of course those children you know they haven't done anything wrong so i think europe needs to you know basically come to a conclusion of how to go but it just shying away saying this is
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a very complicated issue i think that's too easy so tell us more about the reaction from european officials specially france germany britain to donald trump's a demand that europe should take these people that they all sound very much alike if you ask me we have seen our german foreign minister. he's basically saying it's very difficult to realize because we need paperwork you know people might claim we are german citizens in fact they are not and if you take them back of course you don't just want to release them you want to maybe investigate them you might want to put them on trial and in order to do so some paperwork needs to happen in syria now the european nations say we don't have functioning embassies there so who is going to be the one doing all the paperwork but on the other hand it's also i think an argument of shying away because it's an argument where you can say yes that is sorted out we are not taking responsibility and we are going to leave the kurdish
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allies and they were. allies in the fight against islamic state alone with a problem so notify hurdles then especially if the european countries say how do we prove that the us of dozens of countries so how do you see this issue being resolved well with this afternoon i think the european foreign ministers would have a chance because they need and they are talking about precisely this issue as well as they address the syrian conflict i think i would like to take up an issue that was brought into the discussion by nobel peace laureate not jehmu that herself one of those. who were persecuted by islamic state in slave to being a sexual slave and she said look shouldn't we basically think about the idea of an international court where these people outright of course all of that would also need to be sorted out and maybe the right way of going about it is the international crimes court or you know a united nations special tribunal as we have seen in other cases i think that might be an idea but that doesn't address the issue of women and children who are
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basically now in camp tents in northeastern syria and as i said especially those children about one thousand two hundred they haven't done anything wrong and i think european nations should act quickly on this one centerpiece and thank you very much for your insights let me bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the bugs the european union says it's prepared to respond to if the u.s. imposes punitive to out of an european car exports the u.s. commerce department has put together a report on whether imported vehicles are a national security threat it could be used by president donald trump to justify tabs hitting german carmakers particularly hard. a route with a history of the holocaust has prompted poland to pull out of a summit of central european nations in israel also said it was growing in protest after israel's foreign minister said that poets collaborated with the nazis during
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the second world war poland has strong you'd just rejected such suggestions and called the comments racist. seven british lawmakers have confirmed their leaving the opposition labor party and will sit in parliament as an independent group the m.p. said they decided to quit because of party leader jeremy corbin support for brags that the old two cited corbin's failure to stamp out anti semitism and bulling within the party. a fetus activists has been sentenced in court for carrying out to protest on board an aircraft in july last year student ellen as on not just of course the deportation of the rejected asylum seeker she was successful on the day although the man was later deported on another flight today she discovered the consequences of her action. gets an airport in sweden it was from here in july twenty eighth that a turkish airlines aircraft was shuttled to depart for instance on board
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a rejected asylum seekers being deported to afghanistan and swedish student l n s and seeking to stop the flight she broadcast her mission live from her smartphone. there and there's a person getting there first and it's afghanistan case don't take my phone don't touch my phone and people here were are trying to take my phone away from me just because the nelson ignored numerous requests to take a seat until the pilot agreed to let the asylum seeker off the plane the video was viewed millions of times across the internet and was celebrated by some as a hero of civil disobedience but she also faced a torrent of abuse thanks. elson was charged with violating sweden's aviation act for refusing to comply with instructions her lawyer contested the allegation saying the instructions had come from the crew rather than the pilot from getting stuff with cargo for national laws define the crimes that can be prosecuted it is
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clear that what happened on july twenty three did not violate any specific law so there was no punishable offense to the surface at all. in the past and faced up to six months in jail instead judges handed down a fine totaling three hundred seventy year olds. ukrainians have been commemorating the fifth anniversary of the deadly my than two tests in the capital kiev a service has been held for more than one hundred people killed in mass demonstrations to end violent in february two thousand and fourteen thousands had camped out for months in the capital to protest against the then president's decision to scrap the deal that would have moved the country closer to the european union the protest was crushed when security forces moved in to clear the demonstrations. for a look back at those tumultuous events connelly met with a young woman who was a teenager when she took part in the protests and was wounded his report.
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scenes of chaos as government forces moved into words might on square trying to force protesters to leave the spot where they had been camping out for more than two months. among them was sixteen year old victoria roman chook her parents thought she was hundreds of kilometers away at art college instead she'd become a regular at the protests on the mind on on the day police attempted to clear the square victoria her friends were out in the streets in front of their makeshift headquarters. and no i didn't immediately understand what was happening suddenly there was an explosion a lot of light suddenly everything went blurry and i was out. an improvised grenade covered in scrap metal and shards of pottery that exploded at her feet victoria suffered more than fifty flesh wounds but she couldn't go to hospital because police were arresting for testers in the wards. instead she ended up in an improvised field hospital in the smaller street her parents still had no idea she
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was in q let alone room did that is until ukrainian t.v. crew a bit. here below much to my face was covered in bandages so that no one would recognise me but one of my mum's friends recognised this birthmark on my neck in the t.v. report that's how our parents found out. meanwhile tensions were increasing further as protesters began a counter-offensive drawing of a closer to the government district police change their tactics and live ammunition came into play. casualty numbers were rising fast and soon dozens of protesters were being killed every day among them was on exam the copying us put it before all the shooting got underway he came up to me one morning and put his arms around me and said go home you don't have to be here. i'm going to put that if. i'm by the end of the week more than a hundred people have lost their lives images like these. swings around the world
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present in a coach's position become untenable within days he was gone leaving to russia. five years on from the might does victoria still think the protests had a last impact on the country. i see all the changes these are changes we really need this country is finally being built yes maybe not as fast as we had hoped or expected but it's happening many form of protest to say it was all in vain two months protesting and they thought they'd wake up in a new european country with better wages that's not how life works. and the news in the economy who now joins me from the ukrainian capital nick yet where you are is commemorating the fifth anniversary of the i've done protests how important are the events of two thousand and fourteen for the country today
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get off never to well those are vents are certainly written large in kiev today this is the first of a few days of commemoration commemorating the three days or so which show almost one hundred people lose their lives in scottish police as police try to clear my town square behind me after months of standoff but this isn't just about that single victory or just the lives of those who died in those days this is a chance to think about where ukraine has come in the last five years it wasn't just about getting rid of their old president it was also about the events that happened later just a few weeks after my dad had one prison and a coach fled russia annexed crimea soon there was a conflict in eastern ukraine so ukraine's really have seen five years of war and now with an election coming up in a few weeks time this is really a child's stake stock and see where the country's come now we had victoria you know reports say a change has come in the last five years but perhaps not fast enough to what extent
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is a view shared by others that. there's certainly weariness one thing that's important to remember is that given that certainty ukraine is seen in the last years the people's standard living has fallen dramatically it still hasn't recovered to pre-revolutionary levels that something that's very frustrating to struggling to make ends meet there's a lot of reforms going on but most of those will take a long time to refill to down and to have an effect on people's everyday lives and one thing that lots of people are angry about is the lack of change lack of clear achievements in fighting top level corruption so far no really big fish have gone to jail having said that there is very little public appetite for reversing. effects of the my dad was very few people calling for close ties to russia so it does have a last thing impact on ukraine in the world and lenny of those attending the
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commemoration events today have been bringing flowers to remember the more than one hundred people who lost their lives during the my don protests has anyone been brought to justice for those killings nic. that's one of the main. one in ukraine civil society the fact that none of the political decision makers who of those shootings the use of sniper rifles have gone to jail there are lots of cases still running but no convictions present because each was convicted in his absence he's in russia of treason but not attending more specific in terms of doing harm to individuals in terms of people who pulled the trigger as only two people have actually gone to prison sentences have been suspended so there's a real lack of a clear sign from the system that's just being done and at that prayer meeting i was a really there was a real concern from the families that as time goes on fewer and fewer people will
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be putting pressure on the investigators to keep on this case some of the elderly families the parents of those who died are slowly dying themselves of an age they're no longer able to get involved and that it will be an open wound until some kind of closure is brought mcconnell in kiev the captives if you crane thank you not the plight of one of nature's most unusual and he was the pangolin all scaly and to get the only anonymous completely covered with horny scales but though ching is not threatening them with extinction around one hundred thousand bengal in a traffic to china and get them every year for use in traditional medicine. this find is worth some eight million dollars ivory and pangolin scales the biggest toll that uganda's authorities have ever made in china what about. three.
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now imagine how many probably were killed to raise this number of killers. mainly headed for china in asia pangolin scales are believed to have the power to heal all kinds of complaints even though they made of keratin just like human thing in aisles bangle in meat is sold in luxury restaurants trade in the animals is illegal . we believe that it's an international network of other people who are involved. and our investigation. the only members with horny scales one kilo of scales will fetch around six hundred u.s. dollars on the black market because the animals can be sold illegally for huge sums they hunted in many african and asian countries where the most trafficked to mammals in the world and are listed as critically endangered. to some sport on the future of track and field gold medalist cost to somalia is on the line this week at a hearing by the court of arbitration for sport starting today the eight hundred
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meter champion is challenging a proposed rule by the governing body of track and field on certain athletes including somalia with unusually everybody levels it's a landmark case expected to resonate throughout the sporting but. to the skin was championship threat must say hesher has won a record stein's seventh korea gold medal in florida to lead an austrian sweep of the podium the austrian put on one of the best performances of his life in the slalom with and for most flawless for us trun that allowed him to cruise to victory in the second rod has shifted. return thirty next month and has suggested he might retire after the season. now for a dream come true for one indian heavy metal band the group called crane direct has won a competition to bring its brand of hahn drop to the iconic voc an open air festival
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in gemini the band came out on top in a tight contest in the city of bengal which is rapidly becoming india's mecca for metal heads. tears of joy for trainwreck after winning to qualify at the fuckin metal battle in bangalore india the band's international career is now within reach . with more than nine million people bungalow is india's third largest city. not far outside the city for one day a year a paradise for metal lovers is created at the bangalore open air festival. with more than three thousand visitors the event is the country's only heavy metal music festival it's here where it gets decided who will go to the famous vulcan metal festival in germany for
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a train wreck take to the stage. so when both the fans and the jury need to be convinced the bands have just twenty minutes. against three other bands with members from nepal sri lanka and india the boys sees victory there now keen to take their prize and music further all the way to the voc an open air festival in germany more than seventy five thousand people make their way to vulcan each year in august trainwreck will represent the indian subcontinent competing against twenty eight other bands in the festival's metal battle for young talent.
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that start. with the bangalore victory under their belts train wreck will now have to prove their mettle at the largest heavy metal music festival in the world vulcan. i'm sitting looking forward to hearing them here watching the dow good news coming up next indeed of the news asia. the saudi crown prince is in pakistan and he's come bearing gifts but how will that go down and india amid heightened tensions over kashmir. and the long arm of chinese censorship director john good who is still most print drawn from the bulletin
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international film festival last week and in a deal done be exclusive on to siberia says his own film is also being blocked. those and other stories coming up in the job news asia shortly and you're watching the dub news from berlin that's it for me i'm a touchy mind don't forget you can always get all the news and information are wrong the clock on our website and you got beat dot com about.
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