ns it. malaria must millions. this is news coming to you live from european states pledged to work together to deal with their islamic state fighters captured in syria u.s. president donald trump has threatened to allow around one hundred european jihadists truth infiltrate the continent unless their home states put them on trial also coming up nuclear waste in a perilous condition in germany it's

a race against time to move the barrow. mine where they're stored slowly collapses . and ukraine marks five years since the deadly protests on the mind on the square that toppled the country's government we ask how much has the country changed since then. oh i'm terry martin and welcome to the program there's new friction in transatlantic relations over the fate of european nationals captured fighting for so-called islamic state in syria germany says it will work with france and britain in response to u.s. demands to repatriate some eight hundred european extremists that's after a tweet from president trump threatening to release captured fighters and less europe takes them back and puts them on trial. i asked jihadists on the march in

syria these images from the fall of twenty fourteen i asked has since been defeated here and across nearly the entire country many fighters sadat and more have been taken prisoner the kurds say hundreds of foreign i is fighters remain in kurdish prisons their wives and children live in comes to northern syria europe hasn't yet come up with a clear response over the future of foreign fighters and their families germany says it is now in close contact with its european partners in particular france and britain. because this naturally saw its of course it is true that all german citizens have the right to return to germany including those suspected of having fought for islamic state they have to face justice here in a german court it's on top of this i.r.s. military 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 german officials say that a total of one thousand and fifty german citizens went to fight in syria and iraq since twenty thirteen since then a third have returned home around two hundred are led to do dat foreign minister heikal mass says it's difficult to track if prisoners are actually truman citizens stuff i have ever if this were the case necessary to check to what extent they were involved in fighting for i yes which would result in criminal proceedings having to be opened against them. and these people can come to germany only if he's ensures that they can immediately be taken into custody as i'm good normally or. to prosecute our rehabilitate the question of how to deal with the returning i as fighters and their families is a major challenge for germany and for other european countries as well. for more let's bring in our correspondent max hoffman. in brussels that's where e.u.

foreign ministers are currently meeting max donald trump is demanding european countries take back hundreds of their nationals detained while fighting for i as in syria what's the reaction from e.u. foreign ministers in brussels most euro foreign ministers here in brussels at the moment do recognize that of course this is a problem and that the u.s. president has a point when he wants to talk about the topic but there is heavy criticism surprisingly terry about the way he is doing it social for example the foreign minister from luxembourg said you don't do that with a tweet you talk to your partner if indeed those are partners and you already mentioned the german foreign minister in the report who pointed out some difficulties here for example that the germans don't have an embassy in syria so that it is very hard to proceed to verify that these people are actually german nationals that what kind of criminal charges are brought against them to make sure that if indeed they are delivered to germany they were taken into custody right

away so it seems that the e.u. foreign ministers here recognize the problem say we need to do something about that but it's unclear how exactly they do want to proceed so identifying the people we're talking about here these these german nationals are foreign nationals have been fighting for i asked in syria that's a problem yes but one of the problems as repatriation of jihad is fighters pose for europe. well if they don't stay in custody we saw in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen what kind of problem that can create for europe you of course remember the attacks in paris or here right here in brussels many people involved back then were foreign fighters that had returned and just to give you an idea of the numbers we don't have the freshest numbers but in two thousand and sixteen it was believed that for example three hundred roughly three hundred foreign fighters were returned alone to france and went back into already radicalized communities so of course people here are worried that attacks like in

two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen could happen again although we experienced a period of relative calm in the last years ok so potential security risk there stay with us masked as a repatriation of bias fighters isn't the only point of contention between the u.s. and europe today there's also friction over trade the u.s. commerce department has delivered the results of a fair trade investigation called for by the white house are reportedly concludes that vehicle imports pose a threat to national security and all that's in the u.s. the move could open a new front in president trump's america first trade agenda washington it's believed could impose painful punitive tariffs on mainly german carmakers max up to twenty five percent american consumer advocates fear that car prices across the board could rise by some five thousand dollars since all manufacturers use imported

parts german car makers say washington's accusations are in comprehensible so max brussels can't be happy about this prospect the prospect of us slapping tariffs on european cars can it. no but they've already shown how they would react because we've had a similar problem although not the same magnitude with steel terrorists and the u. commission back then reacted with retaliatory terrorists for example slapping them on whiskey or harley davidsons trying to hurt voters of donald trump in constituencies where these things were produced and they are always been saying there's more where that came from all the plans the lists are in the drawers we can take him out whenever we deem this possible but of course the main feeling among people in brussels and not only here is disbelief that a partner like the u.s. would do anything like that and i think the best example of that is what happened at the munich security conference i don't know if you followed the german

chancellor during that event last weekend but she really seen in disbelief at that this was a real possibility that actually german cars could be deemed a national security threat in the united states serious tensions there max huffman in brussels thank you so much. now to some other stories making news around the world today india says a shootout in the disputed border region of kashmir has left at least nine people dead including the suspected mastermind of last week's deadly suicide bombing indian troops came under fire as they hunted militants believed responsible for that bombing india has blamed neighboring pakistan for the attack which killed dozens of indian troops. a panel of british lawmakers has accused facebook of deliberately breaking privacy and competition laws and says the company should be investigated findings come after an eighteen month parliamentary probe into december mation in the digital spear

a panel also calls for greater regulation of social media companies to protect democracy. but a speech over the history of the holocaust has prompted poland to pull out of a summit central european nations in israel warsaw said it was withdrawing in protest after israel's foreign minister said that poles collaborated with the nazis during world war two all ins prime minister has slammed those comments as unacceptable and racist. now to cameroon in west africa where one hundred seventy school children mainly girls have been released from captivity after being abducted by its separatist group on saturday the children were freed in the city of qum blow which is in the ngo phone region of the largely france speaking country they've been abducted by a group fighting for independence for that part of cameroon which they call. for old joining us now from lagos in neighboring lie jury it is our correspondent

adrian krishna adrian first of all why were the schoolgirls abducted and how are they released. so terry as far as we know they were released yesterday in the late evening around nine pm and the man now reunited with their families again i talked to the bishop up where. earlier today and he said it was separatists aware behind the attack behind the kidnapping and she said simply to prove a point for them they want the school to be closed and apparently they were as successful because now the only remaining school in the region is now also closed it in the separatists regularly put pressure on local to not send their children to school there who are these separatists and what are they fighting for. so the people in the region of cameroon they have been feeling marginalized to details already because they're in minority in the country that is dominated by

a francophone by the french speaking government and the whole crisis escalated in two thousand and sixteen back then lawyers went on the streets doctors as well demonstrating peacefully but the government reacted with violence many were arrested others were killed and this is when the whole thing was the crisis escalated separatist groups started to have become active and by now we have a situation whereby there's more than ten active separate groups in the region and they also have very different separatist group although they have one target they want to achieve the foundation of their own country on brazil india but the groups themselves are very different and i've seen it myself when i was there last year driving through the area there we could talk to some of the groups representatives who would just try to fight for their purpose peacefully that was also accepted by white positive people living there but then you had others who were basically criminals just xstrata money from us but also from people living in the area and this is the same thing when it comes to education some of them say well education is important but many of them insist that the schools have to remain closed because

they want to put pressure on the government that way they want to force the government on the negotiation table and this is why most of the schools in the region have been closed for more than three years now seventy schools where torched already in the pastas it's a terrible situation and paul b. of the president when he was elected once again in a very controversial elections the last year he says he's open for dialogue but nothing much has happened since then adrian thank you so much. in lagos. germany as you may know is phasing out nuclear power but it is still struggling to deal with the industry's legacy it's clear that there is a big problem with nuclear waste one example is a former salt mine at in northern germany where low grade radioactive waste has been stored for decades. all ready to go underground protect the.

oxygen. and the geiger counter to mesha ideation. we are plunging five hundred meters into the mine at for me to second and we are going to inspect one of germany's most pressing and why a mental problem. to waste. many years. in the state wants to remove. a race against time. barrows full of low grade way to. fifty years ago when the problems are mounting every day thirteen falls and lead to seep into the mine. just imagine three generations we use nuclear power in germany. generation. everyone who says nuclear is

a cheap form of energy should be this place. engineers want to go completely new shaft to bring the nuclear waste to deal with the old mine is failing it could collapse then the bet awards will be crushed it will take years until the barrels can be salvaged at the moment new covenants like this one are being excavated to accommodate huge machines. waiting for the whistle as they do when the by woods are brought to live they should be taken away as far as possible. need to be stored somewhere in germany i think not due to sending them to africa or to shoot them into space or whatever. nobody wants nuclear waste in their backyard about a billion euros being spent on dealing with the left over nuclear power in addition

cleaning up the mine. five billion euros. one person who knows a lot about this story is sylvia courting green party parliamentarian who heads up the environment committee in the german thank you so much for being with us today. first of all why has. this. potentially very dangerous situation at the us a mind to where this radioactive waste is stored why is that been allowed to go on for so long it's been decades you know first of all of it like to say that the as it isn't it responsibility it's an example of how you are not supposed to do it because these former mines have too many. what is what is the. top carbines of the could be crevices yes. so you so if sometimes i miss avert and you always know that someday there's water

in it yes and you had to neighboring the us to form a mind who had flooded over thirty and it was absolutely clear that the as a two would be flooded one day and still it was chosen and it was not still is because of any quality for safety it was only chosen because it seemed to be a cheap solution so these are barrels containing containing nuclear waste low level nuclear waste but still radioactive they rust when they're exposed to water and salt yes obviously so the waste is allowed to seep out and potentially get into the groundwater i presume are taxpayers expected to now shoulder the cost of cleaning up the site and getting the barrels out yes fama operator wanted to food for the us if it's a special liquid and then close it and i was and some other people have echoed

winced that the only. responsible lucian is to bring the waste out again and so we made a law. which made free to even go and the problem is we do not know how long it take very long this we know but even they don't know how long it will take the works still in the stage of preparation and we do not even know about it works at all so this is a very special law because you do not know whether you are able to come to a to go and you know there are still questions surrounding the why this we don't know yet and it's taken so long as being so slow but i'd like to move on to the problem of nuclear waste in germany in general this problem has been around in germany like in other countries for many years how much progress has there been made during all these decades of debate about finding a permanent nuclear. storage facility and dealing with this in

a safe manner you have a very poor history of mis repositories because you have not only us if you have a tool which is similar and we have the story of chorley and so that we have a very easy or stored above ground yes but it was supposed to get the repository for the hive radioactive waste and probably its own knowledge because we made a nude all itches in my opinion a very good law and be made if he could make it because he had this face out in two thousand and eleven for the second time because of their higher energy nearly the whole upon him and so it is made possible to focus now on the next problem and this problem is the nuclear waste and behalf this law which hath a very. long lasting look for finding at least a site for the repository the first step so miss sylvia quoting

a member of the german parliament and head of the committee dealing with the environment thank you for being with us today on t w thank you. ukrainians have been commemorating the fifth anniversary of the deadly my down protests in the capital kiev a service has been held for the more than one hundred people killed when mass demonstrations turned violent in february of two thousand and fourteen thousands had camped out for months in the capital to protest the then president's decision to scrap the deal that would have moved the country closer to the european union protest was crushed when security forces moved in to clear the demonstrators. for a look back at those to mulch was events t w s nick conley met up with a young woman who was a teenager when she took part in the protests and was wounded here's his report. scenes of chaos as government forces moved into its 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 again no i didn't immediately understand what was happening suddenly there was an explosion another flight suddenly everything went blurry and i was out . an improvised grenade covered in scrap metal and shards of pottery had 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 the parents still had no idea she was in q let alone room did that is until ukrainian t.v.

crew appeared. 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 become 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 all excited the copying us but 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 by the end of the week more than a hundred people have lost their lives images like these went around the world i presume the other coaches position had become untenable within days he was gone to

russia. five years on from the my down does victoria still think the protests had a last impact on the country. by she says 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 with many even 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 to move i. so during the latest round of bundesliga matches public. sports is here with us hey let's of course are going to look at what's happening at the top of the table but first what about sunday's big match up well the big matchup of course was between france and england these are two sides that really want to make it into europe next

season and frankfurt are actually in the europa league this season and the very much focused on that because of a poor season last year didn't make it into europe and they're pretty much regulars in europe but they're very focused on getting back into the champions league and things are looking good for them they're in those top four spots third in the in the table. and it was a pretty good much it was tight which is what everyone expected so i think we need to do is actually take a look at the action. dominated the early going toward firing a warning shot in the eighth minute frankfurt eleven back to create a series of chances and it's forcing kevin trapp to make his best save of the first half. frankfurt didn't even fire on target until the thirty ninth minute to look cost edge tonight by youn zouma then with the last kick of the first half danny did cost to open the scoring for the hopes i crossed

a controlling unit and it goes months corner and hitting the tongue. after that i instruct gave blood back few opportunities to ray bates almost made it to kneel his shot going just why i frankfort seem to be running out of steam though and to zacharie up pounced on a defensive blackout to pull the sides level i try getting a hand to the ball but able to stop it i said dream it should have netted the winner for gladbach as time expired but he bounced the ball over the net i won one the final score and both sides will be feeling they missed a chance to come away with more. now the other team making a push for a european top spot is fifth place leverkusen what happened in their game well they were facing dusseldorf throughout the beginning of the season had an absolutely

dreadful start to say the least but they've actually managed to drag themselves up the table and they're sort of teetering on that sort of mid table area. which is you know a pretty good achievement for them but they were no match for laver because they celebrated their fourth consecutive on the sneak a win under their relatively new coach will say peter boss who took over at the beginning of the year once again let's take a look at the action. i seems good. on the paper bowl so once again through the kitchen sink at his opposition five attacking players started for the hosts and it showed the eighteenth minute hobbits completely out of the one mill strike of kevin fall and had moved out wide to find the young german for his night of the season. leave accusing continued to press aggressively and could have had a second before the break not for a last ditch tackle and kevin fall in saudi finishing. both and clearly told us judges to keep on shooting mitchell visors effort from an unlikely position gave

the on paid leave the chance to pounce after a goal a start to the season he has now school to in three matches the two nil win sees live accusing climb to fifth and stay on course for another top six finish well fortuna could afford to drop points after an impressive run and seemed happy enough in defeat. and how i know that later on dortmund play by the top and bottom games in the bonus league don't really have to win they really do have to win other top of the table at the moment they are two points ahead of biron they want to go back to being five points which is what they were before this weekend started they really need to win they are feeling a little bit damaged will say after their last in the champions league which was a big loss and also got a cut poor run of form in the past two weeks they were knocked out of the co-pastor news into braman with hoffenheim in the bundesliga probably thank you so much from the public from good obvious sports coming up.

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