this is the way you do survive but from berlin they came from europe and fought for as long state does europe want to take the risk and take them back us president dealt with trump is threaten to allow eight hundred european jihad is to infiltrate the continent unless their home states in europe put them on trial also coming out ukraine marking five years since those deadly protests on the mind that toppled the country's government we asked tonight how much has the country changed since this.

and get ready for the next music invasion heavy metal from india. that's right we need to lower his number one headbangers train wreck and they've got tickets for germany. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us tonight there is new for action in transatlantic relations and this time it's over the fate of european nationals who left home and fought for so-called islamic state in syria germany tonight saying it will work with france and britain in response to u.s. demands to repatriate eight hundred european extremists but it's not that simple britain says that there's jihad is should be tried in the countries where they

committed their alleged crimes u.s. president he has threatened to release captured fighters unless europe takes them back and puts them on trial at home. i asked jihadists of the march in syria these images are from the fall off rocca intervention 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 ayers 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. this is 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 off the streets. this iris 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 led to do dat foreign minister heikal mass says it's difficult to track if prisoners are actually truman citizens stuff i ve ever if this were the case it would be necessary to check to what extent they were involved in fighting for oil yes which would result in criminal proceedings having to the opened against them. and these people can come to germany only if he's ensures that they can immediately be taken into custody. 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. let's bring in our political course. on that simon young he's on that story for us tonight good evening to you simon so you know that's quite an ultimatum that the u.s. president has made to these european countries but let's just deal with the issue at hand right here in germany are authorities even ready to take these people back to what brant as you say there are about forty of these people with german citizenship so it's not a huge number of course if there were spouses and children coming as well that would be more people there are also a group of about twenty i understand who don't have german citizenship but were living in germany before they went to fight in syria now the german interior minister says that three to four hundred jehad the terrorists have returned from syria and iraq in recent years many of them are facing trial or are being tried or

in rehabilitation so you know looking at capacity it does seem as if germany could deal with these people even though probably they would need to be put under intensive surveillance because of the fee is that they could be a danger to society it could be done but it's just a question of the political will of the political will we know that the foreign minister high kumasi has said that taking these fighters in would be very difficult if germany trying to to buy some time here. yeah i mean it does look as if that it has been happening because the german line up to now has been that you know they can't get these people out of kurdish jails because you know there's no recognized state authority really there and there are no consular services well that might be a bit of an excuse we understand german intelligence offices have been out to the region they have been interviewing

a lot of these people that have been gathering evidence the foreign minister hike a muscle so he said you know it would be necessary to build up a case to show what they had been doing so that they could be brought to trial. i'm told that around twenty of them have already had arrest warrants issued for them but in some cases it just might not be possible to prove their own create crimes in a german court and the politicians here in berlin how do these see this this ultimatum that they've been given by the u.s. president do they see it as a provocation or do they think that the demand is justified well for once i think many german politicians are inclined to agree with donald trump i mean we've heard the foreign minister skeptical and some conservative politicians say they don't want to see foreign terrorists or indeed homegrown terrorism imported back into germany but many people say germany is a constitutional country should piss you justice and should do the right thing to take the pressure off the obviously hard pressed kurds of syria or some young of

the story tonight here in berlin so i mean thank you. what china's foreign ministry today accused the u.s. vice president mike pence of being a hypocrite and of acting like a bully sharp criticism that came after comments that the vice president has been making here in europe over the weekend at the munich security conference pence warned america's european allies to steer clear of chinese tech giants such as who are away he said using chinese equipment could compromise national security especially when it comes to rolling out new five g. networks. under president trump's a leadership the united states has also made it clear that china must address the longstanding issues of intellectual property theft force technology transfer and other structural issues in china that have placed a burden on our economy and on economies around the world. munich security

conference last weekend the list of problems confronting europe was mentioned many times and it is a long list my next guest tonight says european leaders are not interested in finding solutions as long as they have done will trump to blaine in his reserve book the end of europe dictators demagogues and the coming dark age he lays out how most of those problems existed long before anyone in europe had even interchange the notion of a u.s. president dollar tropp james kirchick is an author he's a journalist and currently a visiting fellow at the brookings institution in washington d.c. he joins me from the u.s. capitol tonight james is going to have you back on the program i'd like to you to ask you if you think that the munich security conference if it helped us european relations but first take a look at what happened or maybe what didn't happen when vice president pence delivered greetings to the people in munich at the conference from president donald

trump take a look. i bring greetings from the forty fifth president of the united states of america president donald trump. no that was the very awkward silence that he was expecting applause there was no applause when you look at that now let me pose the question did the conference did it help transatlantic relations well i wasn't there but everything i'm reading indicates that it didn't. and that donald trump is a very easy feat here to hate particularly in europe. so i think it's mind my pants the vice president should know that by now and as i understand it he mentioned donald trump's names at least dozens of times it was a very flattering speech to donald trump i think he should have maybe try to top more to his audience in europe as opposed to the audience of one back here in

washington which is what he seeks have been doing so he both sides are to blame here i think it's a little petty frankly for the europeans to basically sit on their hands for an entire speech and i have vice president the united states it's the same time if they might hence here should have known better than to give such a sort of finding presentation about it as the president you wrote a piece that appeared in the washington post last week ahead of the munich security conference and in that piece you write as long as trump remains in the white house expect most european thought leaders to continue using him as an excuse to avoid contending with the continent's serious systemic and structural problems rather than confront these difficult truths most europeans prefer to pretend that the president of the united states is their greatest challenge and nowhere is this flight from reality more apparent than germany where do you see germany running

away from its problems by running toward strong. well certainly on the issue of i mean let's look at the major problems that germany has is trumpet the need trying to ministration has to germany we look at nato spending germany is spending one point two one point three percent far short of the two percent that it's required to by its own agreements to spend it's the richest country in europe a concert me afford to do this so trump is right about that he might not express it in the way that i like it you know in terms of berating them constantly but germany is not playing it's not really you know throwing its weight around as it should on the issue of north stream too this is a fundamental betrayal of germany's own allies in eastern europe which are fellow e.u. and nato members there throwing them under the bus in order to you know extend economic relations with an adversary russia there's no excuse for north stream to no matter how many times the german government tries to make excuses for it. and so these

are some really crucial yeah sorry about that we have a little delay there in the audio you also wrote in i'm not going to quote you here as well j.b. you said that berlin has the gall to complain about trump's hasty retreat from syria despite not having committed a single soldier to the mission but you know that's a really that's about as by marian's you can be right either you fight or you're not part of the fight i mean do you really see it that black and white. well you know what fine if germany doesn't want to contribute to the syrian mission that's fine they therefore don't have a right to complain about the united states play out you know france is contributing the ukase contributing lots of other smaller countries are contributing why isn't germany contributing it intially merkel she made this point again over the weekend criticizing the united states for leading syria i mean you know germany should put up or shut up rightly. are there european leaders who are

in your opinion who are not using the trump excuse well i mention one in my column in the norwegian foreign minister who didn't even mention i saw speak at a conference last week or the week before munich you know really didn't mention the present the united states he talked about the fundamentals of the transatlantic relationship which i think if you put the president in his rhetoric and his tweets to one side are still you know interests in values that unite united states in europe and i think a lot of leaders would prefer to spend all their time you know railing about donald trump and how not to see isn't how you know annoying his tweets and his rhetoric can be and there are tending as if he's the be all end all of the entire relationship with the united states and i think that's just ridiculous it's an easy cop out. author and journalist james kirchick joining us tonight from washington we know that you are traveling james so we appreciate you taking the time to talk with

us tonight thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the vatican says that the catholic church must move with fresh urgency to confront widespread child sex abuse within the clergy now the vatican spokesman says that the church needs to look at the monster of abuse in the face of those comments come just days before pope francis opens an unprecedented summit to address the crisis in 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. seven british lawmakers have quit the opposition labor party and will sit in parliament as an independent group the m.p.'s say that they

decided to quit in part because the party leader jeremy corbyn support for bright said they also cites his failure to stamp out anti-semitism within the party. or ukrainians have been commemorating the fifth anniversary of the deadly my dawn protests in the capital kiev a service has been held for the more than one hundred people who were killed when mass demonstrations turned violent in february of two thousand and fourteen thousand had camped out for months in the capital to protest the 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. before a look back at those to mulch was nick connelly met up with a young woman who was a teenager when she took part in the protest she was also wounded here's his report . scenes of chaos as government forces moved into its mind 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 now left 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 so. 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 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 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 the copying of better 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 in the time 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 to become untenable within days he was going to russia. five years on from the mite on does victoria still think the protests had a last impact on the country. you can buy 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 many even form the protests 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 move by. you're watching the w. news live from berlin still to come meet by the words number one headbangers there they are train wreck they'll be flying the flag for indian heavy metal at germany's famous vokoun music festival get ready. when i was story about the price of activism in sweden in july of last year

students managed to stop the deportation of a rejected asylum seeker she was successful at the time although the man was later deported on another flight where today this student discovered the consequences of her action. airport in sweden it was from here in july twenty eighth seen that a turkish airlines aircraft was shuttled to depart for istanbul on board are 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. their fate and there's a prison getting there to exist any case they take my phone don't touch my phone and people here were they are trying to take my phone away from me just because nothing else and ignored numerous requests to take a seat until the pilot agreed to let the asylum seeker off the plane. video was viewed millions of times across the internet house and was celebrated by some as

a hero of civil disobedience but she also faced a torrent of abuse. yassin 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 pilots and get the stuff of national laws to find the crimes that can be prosecuted it is clear that what happened on july twenty three did not violate any specific law so there was no punishable offense is going to mr saddam. in the past and faced up to six months in jail instead judges handed down a fine totaling three hundred seventy year olds. so my colleague jared reed has been following this story for jared knew the story was big online there but did this young woman's actions did they make any difference to recall look i think it's a bit of yes and no here we just saw in that report her good intentions in trying

to stop this deportation she streamed it to millions of people and was celebrated for that and also got some. and i think for a lot of people that's where the story started and stopped a brave woman stops deportation and they moved on but it turns out there was a lot more to the story demand that she thought she was helping wasn't on the plane and then instead there was an afghan man who had spent time in jail for assault so that was one aspect to it and she was charged with breaking aviation law so that people will study. did she do the right thing here in britain there is a group called the stansted fifteen and they will sort of involved in a similar thing they tried to stop a deportation flight as well and they were recently convicted of that and i think the problem that some activists face is that they want us to be talking about the people that they're trying to help but because what they're protesting attracts so much attention we end up talking about them and who they are and emerge evasions

and not about not about the people that they want to be talking about and i think. it creates an impact but not the one that they thought they would be getting and it's also a problem if they're not getting the facts straight first social media this activism that we're talking about is nothing new but when it comes to social justice it seems that the people that we do end up talking about seems like they're getting younger and younger that's right this seems to i'm told we're talking about teenagers here i guess there's this sort of i don't know movement or whatever you want to call it a teenager's who is saying to adults look you're not doing enough on climate change are not doing enough on gun control. going to be doing something about it people like and now this we need gratitude and. skip school by protesting outside the swedish suddenly now all around the world there are lots of school kids skipping school protesting for the climate when the poc land shooting happened for example

there were. students who said look no one's doing enough on gun control we're going to be doing something about it so i think activists are getting younger and younger and they're realizing the power of social media and getting their message out very quickly to many many people charities always thank you whenever you dream come true for one indian heavy metal band the group is called train wreck and it's one competition to bring gives a brand of hard rock to the famous voc an open air festival here in germany the band came up in the city of bangalore which is rapidly becoming india's mecca for metal heads. 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 bungalow open if festival. with more than three thousand visits is the event is the country's only heavy metal music festival it's here where it gets decided who will go to the famous buchan metal festival in germany for 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. i. think.

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 vatican 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 nestle battle for young talent. thanks to your. work. with the bangalore victory under their belts trainwreck will now have to prove their mettle at the largest heavy metal music festival in the world voc and. that's. all right from banging your heads to feeling the force the

force it's strong with the french tonight their country's fencing federation has voted to officially recognize light saber do as a competitive sport that's right one of the jet i masters or sits lords now won't have to travel to a galaxy. far far away to hone their craft the l.e.d. replicas used by the duelist even come with a sailing ship to emulate the crackle of the iconic star wars weapon princes promoting the sport to encourage physical activity among the nation's. youth. are at his reminder of the top stories that we're following for you germany says it will coordinate the return of jihad as fighters from syria with britain and france it comes after us president threaten to release eight hundred european nationals who fought with so-called islamic state who are now being detained in syria. is next stay tuned for that this week we will be looking at the multibillion dollar

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