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this is g w news live from berlin european states pledging to coordinate their work to deal with their islamic state fighters captured in syria u.s. president donald trump has threatened to allow eight hundred european jihad is to infiltrate the continent and unless their home countries take them back and put them on trial will they do that also coming up nuclear waste here in germany it's a race against time to move the barrels as the salt mine where they're stored slowly collapses and get ready for the next music invasion heavy metal from india.
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meets bangalore's number one headbangers the train wreck they've been chosen to take part in germany's thing is bach and music fest. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome and tonight there is new friction in relations across the atlantic this time it's over the fate of european nationals captured fighting for so-called islamic state in syria germany says that it will work with france and britain in response to a demand from the united states to repatriate eight hundred european extremists but . but it's still not clear how european governments are planning to do that britain
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says that the should be tried in the countries where they committed they are alleged crimes u.s. president donald trump 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 far off raw 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 i is fighters remain in kurdish prisons their wives and children live in camps in 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
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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 check 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 ensures that they can immediately be taken into custody as i'm good normally be able. to prosecute
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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. and we've got team coverage of this. story tonight here at the big table i'm joined by amir mousawi he's an iraqi journalist who has traveled to syria he has met some of the former. fighters also with this is our political correspondent simon young from our parliamentary studio sed both of you welcome me am i want to start with you you said you just got back from syria and you actually met a german national he went to syria to fight for islamic state and he now wants to come home. what what could you do so from your interview with him what's going through his mind while he fink that germany or another country in another case for example or france could do what's possible to get them back.
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bring them to the cart and you know very well the maximum he can gets here in germany on whole europe fifteen years prison about what he can face in syria or in iraq definitely the death penalty that's why they try to play over the national this nationality and. his homelands to come back to germany and to just go have. a trial in germany search will survive in other words he's telling you he wants to come back to germany if he wants the court system he wants his human rights to be respected here despite having left and gone to fight for a system that would not respect those rights this is one of the things that really make me really suspicious on his on his goal why he want to come back because you
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know he's a war criminal and there is a videos of him in that mix a two thousand and sixteen and he has been less that in the united nation a list of war criminals and he told us that i yes i did that bad thing but in the end of the interview they tell us he would like to go back to germany if he has to choose he would like to come to germany to have his rights as a human being. authorities here in germany they hear these stories that amir is telling and it has to influence their thinking are they ready to take these people back. well as you said we are talking about forty faithful or so so it's not a huge number although it would be a large group of people if you include spouses and children and i believe there are around twenty people who don't have german citizenship but were living in germany before they headed out to syria to fight so it should be manageable i mean if you
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compare with what's happened in the past the german interior minister says that between three and four hundred jihad the terrorists have returned from iraq in syria over the past few years many of them are being tried to have been tried or are in rehabilitation programs so it seems like germany is capable of handling this kind of problem even if it would involve a big surveillance operation because these are dangerous people but it's a question of whether there's the political will there to do it is that the problem simon that if some of the some of these german nationals if they came back to germany they would not automatically be in police custody i mean would they be you know walking around freely even if they were being monitored by the authorities. well i mean i think it's been said that a lot of these people are clearly dangerous terrorists there have been intelligence officers heading out to the region to interview many of them and i understand that
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there are twenty of them who have already had arrest warrants issued for them so they feel it is obviously believed that they've got some evidence in those cases in other cases they might not have the evidence concretely to say what crimes they committed in syria and whether they could really face justice in a german court those who might have to be allowed to be free and that would be a problem until. right now than these eight hundred european nationals there they're being detained but not necessarily being charged with something is that correct correct this is the big challenge in front of the police and security service here in germany because that some of them under the radar of the securities of so the some of them they are not and that's why whatever happened some on them being captured from syria democratic fighters they've been interviewed by security
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services just tool to get to cross over the information to get more information about what they did what they was they've been. detainees and war in which case they've been involved it's really extremely not so easy for them just to get black and white evidence in the against of them and you know the courts here in germany they need really a very clear evidence that's what is the rule of law here i remember one time you and i spoke about these combatants who had left germany to go fight for isis and you said that when isis began to break up that they wanted to battle they wanted to fight and they wanted to die if the caliphate was not going to survive and now they've survived yeah this is this is the the the. big problem for the authorities not by the way not just for in germany also in syria for the kurds.
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some of them try to cross the border to to work to turkey to live underground in jordan and for example that guy that we've been interviewed and some of them survive because they did not manage to fight for it to the ends right and some of them their families this is one of the most important children women and this is very important because some of the women there is no cases against them read some of them i know some cases they come back to germany they stayed here two days and after there they went to the shopping center here in germany is a difficult situation on either where you look at it that is for sure amir mousawi and simon young to both of you thank you very much for helping to shed some light on a difficult situation thank you you're welcome. 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
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the clergy about a can spokesman says the church needs to look the monster of abuse in the face there's comments coming just days before pope francis opens an unprecedented somebody to address a crisis india says a huge 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 believe. the 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 of party leader jeremy corbyn support for brights it they also cited his failure to stamp out anti-semitism within the party. and. germany is phasing out nuclear power but it is struggling to deal with the
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industry's legacy it's becoming clear that there's a big problem with what to do with all that nuclear waste one example is a former salt mine in northern germany where low grade radioactive waste has been stored for decades it's. all ready to go underground protective clothing how much oxygen are all ok 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 problems. to waste that. many years. in the state wants to remove. a race against time. barrows full of low grade way to.
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fifty years ago when the problem every day thirteen falls and lead to water seeped into the mine. just imagine three generations we use nuclear power in germany. everyone who says nuclear is a cheap form of energy should be this place. engineers want a completely new shaft to bring the nuclear waste to deal with the old mine is failing it could collapse then the by woods will be crushed it will take years until the barrels can be salvaged at the moment like this one are being excavated to accommodate huge machines. waiting for the they do when they brought. they should be taken away as far as possible.
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need to be stored somewhere in germany due to sending them to africa 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. five billion year olds. you're watching. headbangers train wreck. and heavy metal that germany's famous. music for. swedish activist has been fined for carrying out a protest on board an airplane now you may remember in july of last year the student ellen aronson managed to hope the deportation of
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a rejected asylum seeker she was successful at the time although the man was later deported on another flight when today she discovered that there are consequences for what she did. goodson bold airport in sweden it was from here in july twenty eighth seen that a turkish airlines aircraft was shot jewel to depart for istanbul on board 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. airplane and there's a person getting their photo and it's yet again if i'm pasting to my phone don't touch my phone and here where they are trying to take my phone away from me just because no one else and 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 house and was celebrated by some as a hero a civil disobedience but she also faced a torrent of abuse. and was charged with violating sweden's aviation
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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 be stuff that oh. yes 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 years juergen of the story was big online there but did this young woman's actions did they make any difference to were coles 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 haze bus and i think for
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a lot of people that's where the story started and stopped brave woman stops deportation and then 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 insta. there was an afghan man who had spent time in jail for assault so that was one aspect to it then she was charged with breaking aviation law so that people were starting to ask will did she do the right thing here in britain there is a group called the stands did fifteen and they were 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 the protest attracts so much attention we end up talking about them and who they are and their motivations and not about not about the people that they want to be talking about and i think. it
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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 it seems like they're getting younger and younger that's right this seems to talk we're talking about teenagers here i guess there's this sort of i don't know movement a what if you want to call it teenagers who are saying to adults look you're not doing enough on climate change are not doing enough on gun control way going to be doing something about it people like a novice weed granted. skip school by protesting outside the swedish problem and suddenly now all around the world there are lots of school kids skipping school protesting for the climate. in the pocket and 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
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they're realizing the power of social media and getting their message out very quickly to many many people should read as always thank you. well uganda's tourism minister has caused an outcry when he suggested that the country should showcase curvy women in order to attract more visitors that's right gun free co one said that full figured women are quote the story we sell to visitors and he announced a plus size beauty pageant called the miss curvy uganda contest ok wanda's comments have been called dehumanizing degrading and a petition has been launched to get the plan and the pageant. our correspondent joining us. talk to both sides of uganda is curvy controversy. one of these ladies could soon be crowned miss covey uganda the beauty contest this
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chick to the four plus sized queens with the bishop's bodies and i'm going to over two hundred women of applied you must be. does ladies know themselves that is the truth when i say when when you ask me what my someone do let's say going to concede that we are considering. the idea to showcase women with coffee or dishes has been fronted by ugandans to what is a minister good for it you wonder at the launch of the contest the ministers say the beauty queens could help attract foreign visitors and boost tourism tourism is little doubt but i think most small towns he would. do look bill we created a lot out of. women rights groups are furious and they have gone to court to block the page and for allegedly insulting women how did. reduce women on the board. were reduced and therefore were.
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one. it's a part of all data and it uganda's miss copy has been made with anger and approval and it's a similar picture in the streets for some the minister is a champion of tourism promotion for others he's objectifying women. i think it's an excellent idea because over the years they've been really promoting the slender sizes you find teenagers in schools are trying to take a lot of medication to lose weight and this is not healthy for us they're supposed to accept us is that the minister behind this idea need to charge me for care because this is not good he's got a wife can eat present here is a tourist attraction enough to get around with we are being portrayed like reg just cheap women like meat on sale out there in them in the international market that's a very bad and i totally disagree and even feel happy that that given the plus size
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people an opportunity it's just like any other beauty pageant but it's only that this one is only for the plus size. facing the backlash the minister denies that she's ations of using women to attract travelers yes towards the parliament that it's a misunderstanding like that special i think. this might. well want to support. we. with a to misunderstanding or not and despite the controversy they are no plans to crush of the contest of the cards. isis forces now a mouth watering champions league clash takes place on tuesday night with the liverpool hosting byron munich the english clubs german coach european club is
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hoping that his team will dominate but last season's bonus league champions byron while they're out to cause an upset. liverpool loves its legends among them the beatles and hometown club liverpool f.c. since its foundation in one thousand nine hundred two the club has won eighteen league titles but it's been twenty nine years since they were last champions under coach you're going to claw up their funds are allowing themselves to dream big again. the best. if anything has. been in charge at liverpool since twenty fifteen where his management style is popular with most of the supporters. are his side reach the champions league final but lost to real madrid. if they want to keep their hopes alive of reaching the final again they'll need to get past german giants barn unic. and to
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finish the season and you don't think about it league season if you think about a. night a really big one and again one of these games if i would be really happy about being in. a german team has never won a champions league or european cup match and on field. byron have tried on three occasions coach nico is familiar with klopp who used to coach dortmund only respect for him. because he doesn't give up he's a fighter he just keeps going you can see that with his team well we're expecting this on tuesday and in the second leg. that if you're going manages to lead liverpool to a champions league glory he may well become one of the club's legends. i know a dream come true for one indian heavy metal band that's right the group called train
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wreck has won a competition to bring its brand of hard rock from bangalore. t. is 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. right here. 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 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 vulcan metal festival in germany for a train wreck take to the stage. so when both the fans
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and the jury need to be convinced the bands have just twenty minutes. to. get i. want it. 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.
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and 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 back and. back. right. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.
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the fun. of. her first day of school in the jungle. first camillus and. then doris crane the moment arrives. joined the ring a tank on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary. toronto
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bring in jane returns home on t w dot com to tang's. they are digital maurier's. for women for internet activists one mission. the battle for freedom and dignity. courageous and determined they campaign for women's rights. and for peace. they mobilize against femicide for compulsory veils. their messages are spread like. social media is critical critical to everything that we do. things a. on the streets our rights are not
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a mysterious question. they are women more changing more maybe. digital. starts marching on g.w. . there are eight hundred europeans who fought for so-called islamic state in syria u.s. president donald trump says his soldiers will let the extremists go free if europe doesn't take them back tonight the u.s. and europe at all odds over what to do with the men and women who gave up their roots and their identities can they should they be able to go home again i bring golf in berlin this is the day.

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