this is g.w. news coming to you live from berlin european states pledged to work together to deal with state fighters captured in syria u.s. president has threatened to allow around eight hundred european just have to infiltrate the continent unless their home states put them on trial. also giving up ukraine marks five years since the deadly protests on the square that toppled the country's government we ask how much is the country change since then.

hello i'm terry martin 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 unless europe takes them back and puts them on trial. i asked jihadists of the march in syria these images are from the fall of the fourteenth 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 aspirants 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. this is naturally saw it's 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 off the streets on top of this i.r.s. 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 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 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 oil yes which would result in criminal proceedings having to be opened against them. and these people can come to germany only if he's insurances they can immediately be taken into custody as i'm going normally be able. to prosecute are 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 hoffmann 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.a.s. 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 and 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 that 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 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 the ankle imports pose a threat to national security 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 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 seemed 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 hoffman in brussels thank you so much. now to some of the other stories making headlines

around the world today the batek says the catholic church must move with fresh urgency to confront widespread sex child sex abuse within the clergy vatican spokesman. said the church needed to look the monster of abuse in the face as comments come just days before pope francis opens an unprecedented summit to address the crisis. 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. and seven british lawmakers have quit the opposition labor party and will sit in parliament as an independent group the m.p.'s said they

decided to quit in part because of party leader jeremy corbyn support for bracks it also cited his failure to stamp out some of his them within the party. now to cameroon in west africa where one hundred seventy school children mainly girls have been released from captivity after being abducted by a separatist group on saturday the children were freed in the city of coombe oh which is in the ngo phone region of the largely french speaking country they've been abducted by a group fighting for independence for that part of cameroon which they call. for joining us now from lagos in neighboring liberia 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 then they are now reunited with their families again i

talked to the bishop earlier today and he said it was separatists where 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 locals to not send their children to school there who are these separatists and what are they fighting for. so the people of the anglican region of cameroon they have been feeling marginalized details already because they have a 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 become active and by now we have

a situation whereby there is more than ten active separate groups in the region and they also have very different separatist groups although they have one target they want to achieve the foundation of their own country. but the groups themselves are very different and i have seen it myself when i was there last year driving through the area that we could talk to some of the groups representatives who were just trying 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 f. been closed for more than three years now seventy schools were 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 election last year he says he's open for dialogue but nothing much has happened since then adrian thank you so much. in lagos. ukrainians have been commemorating the fifth anniversary of the deadly mud on protests in the capital kiev a service has been held for the more than one hundred people killed when must demonstrate turned violent in february of two thousand and fourteen thousands of camped for months in the capital the protest of then president's decision to scrap a deal. that would have moved the country closer to the european union the protest was crushed when security forces moved in to clear the demonstrators. for a look back at those tumultuous events t w s nic connolly 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. i am now left now 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 her parents still had no idea she 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 all excited a copy knows better before all the shooting got under way 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 went around the world. present in a coach's position could become untenable within days he was gone fleeing to russia

. five years on from the my down does victoria still think the protests had a last impact on the country. i see all the changes these 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 even a 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. now a case of popular culture and sport coming together indeed the force is strong with the french their country's fencing federation has voted to officially recognize lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport want to be generally masters or seize lords now won't have to travel to a galaxy far far away to hone their craft the l e d replica is used by the

duellists even come with a sound ship to emulate the crackle of the iconic star wars weapon. france is promoting sport to encourage physical activity among the nation's youth. you're. up next though photos will be here with business news from africa all that and more stay with us. earth the home for saving google india's tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global india's been done series of global three thousand on d. w. and online. checkin. fasten your seat belts.