he could difference. baking bread. on. the at. the at. the at. the at. this is the news coming to you live from the women fleeing abuse are told we'll see they're still not safe in germany saudi women seeking asylum here said they are still being tracked and find their families and exclusive they say the country's embassy in berlin is complicit also coming up in paris and other friends cities thousands of rallies against anti semitism the shortest calm after

a spike in incidents start to gain that countries in jewish community. and bloody me pushing to use an annual speech to promise ordinary russians he'll raise their living standards that said spode show a slide in support for the longtime president. hello and welcome i'm under that she. now many of you may remember the case of the saudi teenager who locked herself up in an airport hotel room last month to escape her family and a half mom with noone was ultimately given asylum in canada sadly she's not the only woman from the ultra conservative islamic kingdom who has fled for her life a number of saudi women have come to germany to seek asylum but this is their being threatened by their families and their tour of duty every exclusively they believe

the saudi embassy here is helping them. they fled from saudi arabia to germany here they hope for safety and freedom but these women still live under threat from their families. to her to i thought i was safe that the psychological warfare the violence and oppression would be over but i still feel like they could get me. the women offer to talk to us only on condition of anonymity we have changed their names and voices. say shortly after arriving in germany they received threatening messages from their families. i know my family knew i was in germany in one city all of that info so there threatened me with my location can animate or not i am sure that through their connections with the saudi embassy and through the saudi embassies connections and it spies that are everywhere they can get information but i do not know the kind of information and

what they know exactly in my heart of no way you commute in myanmar to use. some activists claim that the cases of murder and russia are part of a wider patent. people are followed we have people breaking into the perp months and the families back home always know exactly what is happening these patterns are repeating themselves. we just ask ourselves does every family do this individual pay someone here in germany. that would take a huge effort or could someone else be behind us and the suspicion is of course that maybe the saudi embassy is the one starting all this. we spoke to several parties dealing with saudis seeking asylum abroad they suggested that the saudi embassy could be directly or indirectly involved trying to get refugees to return we reached out multiple times to the embassy in berlin efforts to contact them over

the phone and via e-mail came to nothing. but still the question why would saudi authorities help families trace women who flee abroad. under side radius concentration it's citizens government their mana king the king their absolute in return they tell the men that they can have complete control over their women so when a saudi woman needs her family this article which is will go out of their way to ensure that she has returned because not doing so means that people themselves may start to question why their own beauty and to the king and why they don't have their own. say turning back is impossible they fear they might be tortured or even killed joining me now is a correspondence under peterson who had to search that story welcome sondre not these women are living in fear of these of their lives have the has anyone thought

of going to the german authorities for protection we did they did it let's start with us here we of course contect with the ministry of the interior and the linen they said they have no knowledge of anything going on in that century reception center in sex and hold well all asylum seekers from from saudi arabia they have to go to and we then contect at the ministry of the interior of that particular federal state and they said yes they. have knowledge and let me quote it's a well known problem procedures and appropriate measures are in place and then when we are so what are these procedures and appropriate measures we didn't get any further on so to our request for you know please give us an answer because we really would like to know and also that was one of the women that we basically spoke to intensively we went to the police station with her when she actually fight the complaint ok so how odd then these women staying safe. it's different for each and every individual case because what can you to know and i'm rita is that

you know when the asylum request is processed they have to stay in this state in sex and sex and the and hold and then after that let's say they are granted right of residence they have to stay there that's a legal requirement for three years only then are they free to you know to move elsewhere and their own you very few exceptions from the roots of course these women try and get that exception from the rule but as long as that is not granted they are all you know concentrated in this state and so that makes it rather easy to find them and to spy on them and they're all basically no rate at the same to us and they don't know each other and not all of them know each other is that they felt especially in that central reception center and where they are it's their reference point if health spied upon by fellow refugees and the allegation here is that the embassy is involved because information get that there ended up with a family in saudi arabia so how does that happen now these women obviously they

scared to speak in public but this spoke exclusively to d.w. what this is about the specific circumstances to why they're fleeing their homeland again individual reasons but they did side for instance domestic abuse they didn't side to the feeling of all pression because as you know every woman in saudi arabia needs legal guardian you know if they want to study if they want to go to the doctor is that if they want to study they need male consent and in one particular case there was a threat of a forced marriage and that's then when this woman decided to flee and to come abroad and to stay in germany right saudi arabia's off a strong on women's rights summer peterson thank you very much for those insights. a thousands of people in france have taken to the streets to protest against a spike in anti semitic attacks saying says a fee that's enough and this comes after dozens of graves vandalized and

a jewish cemetery president in modern mccrone describes an attack on the nation france is home to the world's largest jewish population outside israel in the united states. and outpouring of solidarity on paris's plus still a republic. thousands of purchase just turned out to express their support for france's jews. but their anger magnified by yet another desecration of a jewish cemetery. the lease were just one of dozens of demonstrations nationwide in response to a search and high semitic hate crimes of. the fighting that anti semitic actions are on the rise it's something that strikes fear that brings back bad memories we want to show younger generations and there's another path to take from. this is what future the outrage the jewish cemetery in the village of quite some time in

eastern france he faced with swastikas and other anti-semitic graffiti french president has vowed to bring the vandals to justice once more to stop anti-semitism in his tracks. a group of individuals full of hate has unfortunately done what have done before for too many years what. i'm here to express for solidarity of a whole nation. complete determination in fighting anti semitism whatever it takes. this was the second time a jewish cemetery has been desecrated in recent months and fronts. in december nearly forty graves and a holy coast memorial were vandalized in the same region. it is attacks like these that brought people together. not only ordinary citizens but

also top politicians and religious leaders. they wanted to send a clear message they've had enough. joining me now on the line from balance the shimon simons he's the director for international relations at the scene one reason center there a welcome to dot you've been a how important was his gesture of solidarity with these demonstrations and rallies for the jewish community there i think it was rightly important it was it was high time the fact that the reports spike in a number of incidents was a governmental report in fact in an intimate mysterious port was something that is really quite new. statistics come from the jewish community so here we have it coming from the government and we see that as a very good step forward and this is a magick attacks have been on the rise in france what do you see this and what explains this sudden jump in the number of jewish targets being attacked by people

there. it is by no means certain this has been growing over the past ten years. i think that it's been for a number of reasons and also we also have to take into account that many many incidents are not supported i mean i'm i get on my smartphone every day at least one incident of somebody coming out of a synagogue yesterday a van was shot by a gun from a window facing the synagogue. they're not even reported anymore we simply tabulate them for reasons of. people like you in the media who are interested to see if it's going up if it's going down but it is going now to besides just the question of not being really. a static situation it is a dynamic situation it can be affected by outside it's. one of the situations

is of obviously what goes on in the middle east. young that it collides youth in france not only in france playing a game of cowboys and indians in the slum belts around the industrial cities and the palestinians and their jewish neighbors. the indians and they're playing this out and the transplanting the middle east to europe and that all obviously is creating a spike in anti semitic attacks people are moving into the center of paris to escape this you know we heard president. strongly condemned these attacks and what do you think he needs to do to deal with this problem. ok president mccrum will be speaking tonight at a dinner i am attending and obviously he is going to address this matter we have been calling this government to consider bringing back what we all know and

a ministration and that was to place armed guards outside synagogues jewish schools in areas. in danger. for the macaw had removed the state of emergency and. were sent on walkabout and i spoke with them and i said to them you know when you're walking about that's the moment the danger and then they will move completely now. and i think it's important to provide not just out of the community for. bullet proof doors and windows and. c.c.t.v. cameras but also the state should be providing some type of security and if he were slim community need it then the so should they and any point which is a danger also a danger to the public as this situation goes indiscriminate as we've seen in

london. she wants on this director of international relations at the scene want to be sent in paris thank you thank you. let me now bring you up to date with some of the stories making news around the world britain's prime minister is a man struggling to brussels needs it today the visit is another attempt to persuade european union leaders to reopen talks on the brig's that draw agreement european commission chief. has said she would receive a friendly welcome but there will be no renegotiation. riskier teams in switzerland have called off their search in a ski resort hit by an avalanche police say they have halted the operation because no one is registered as missing four people were rescued after the snow slide on tuesday it took place in the town of trance montana in the heart of the. tributes have been pouring in for karl lagerfeld one of the most well known names

in the fashion world the intervention designer and the creative head of the fashion house chanel died in paris on tuesday he was eighty five. turning out to russia of a president vladimir putin has promised to rapidly improve the living standards in the country in his state of the nation address putin said too many russians were living in poverty he pledged a number of measures he said would boost the living conditions within a year odysseys include tax breaks and increasing payments to young families a recent report found approval ratings for the russian president have fallen sharply. correspondent out until ten has been listening to president vladimir putin's address and joins me now from moscow now aaron this speech is always highly anticipated from your perspective what was not the key points of address. what putin's address today was

a market departure from the more marginal rhetoric that we heard last year and said he took his time to express the russian people a clear economic message one basically saying that the government had heard their complaints yes they realize that times are tough economically you have to remember that russians the russian government and economy is looking at a departed depressed economic system right now they realize that a lot of russians have less money left over at the end of the month than they did four or five years ago and they're going to do more to make sure that the economic situations of everyday russians improves in the coming year. and this in a year ago fourteen was reelected with a large majority but since then his approval ratings have slumped why. well a lot of it has to do with the dire economic straits that russia is in at the moment you have to remember that it's facing a one two punch of international sanctions sanctions over its role in the ukraine conflict and then also low commodities prices you can't forget russia is in effect

a petrol state in the all prices means there's not a lot of money that can really be spent on social programs that's also combined with the fact that the ruble has been evaluated against international currencies so at the end of the day at the end of the month a lot of russians are really suffering economically add to that they are deeply unpopular pension reform that russia instigated and you've seen a a large popular up swelling of protest against vladimir putin's actually the largest amount of protests we've seen since two thousand and twelve and the kind of economic malays that has gripped the country is also expanded out to the financial industry as well and on my colleague in your drugstore it has been investigating that i believe we have a report. yon's bank and. now just two of the financial institutions that russia's central bank has stepped in to see decisions that cost millions for their losses could be on the horizon reports suggest that some one hundred fifty banks in the country are on the brink of

collapse lack of capital is a major problem from what i'm going bonkers from through the central bank maintain strict oversight of the small and medium sized financial institutions but it's more lenient towards the big banks they adopt the principle of too big to fail. if. the central bank traditionally intervenes to prevent the demise of major banks smaller privately owned financial institutions are more likely to lose their licenses if they're too low on cash. you know what this system of regulation and supervision aims to promote competition strict oversight encourages competition . for spouses that's. the reality on the ground however is that state owned banks are increasingly lending to state owned companies the effect of all this is to dampen economic growth western

sanctions which make it hard for russian banks to access international markets have compounded the problem. but the reality is that we're in the midst of a recession it's not western sanctions that are the cause they simply make the situation worse. particularly the country's increasingly shaky financial institutions are causing people to lose faith in the system a recent survey suggests that one in three russians believe they're best off not parking their money in the bank sun big economic problems facing russian putting support has slumped as he mentioned in recent months did the president say anything in a speech which could help him win back the confidence of voters. well that really remains to be seen i mean the russian people are used to the government making large economic promises and promises regarding helping them lowering their taxes increasing social spending but the real question remains to be seen i mean

how much help is actually going to rhyme the doorstep at the end of each month i mean we really don't know i mean a lot of these social spending programs that president putin suggested cost an incredible amount of money and right now it's really not entirely certain where that money will actually come from so it really just kind of remains to be seen how much money these support programs will actually bring into the economy and how much of it will be felt by your average everyday russian on the street. and i don't know what about a possible successor other candidates waiting in the wings will might have place. well to keep it short no there actually it is and i mean you have to remember the deal that the russian people have always kind of engaging with putin is if you give the president absolute or almost absolute political power they'll guarantee political star economic stability as it were and right now what we've seen today speech again is putin same look we know times are difficult but if you can trust me for the next six years which is how long his time in office will actually go for

then he'll guarantee that that's political and economic stability that was actually the hallmark of his early presence in their lives to thousands will come back to the russian people so right now his message seems to be stay the course don't change a horse in midstream. until ten in moscow thank you very much for your assessment. thank you. that was one of the deadliest of a terrorist attacks in these history last week's suicide bombing in killed at least forty indian security personnel it caused anger and outrage across india and that attack took place in indian controlled kashmir after independence from britain and nine hundred forty seven means god divine. between india and pakistan of the sort court line of control separating them but both countries lay claim to the whole of the muslim majority province the since nine hundred eighty nine kashmiri separatists have been fighting against india in june

a rebellion that india claims is supported by pakistan and for those looking to place blame in the current incident innocent muslim meanies have also become targets. i just sent us this report. i want to meet you in the wake of the dead attacking bush meat small protests like these have sprung up across india. most have been against markets. but some have reportedly targeted young kashmiris as well. students in the last hundred cities of their and. feast trips from right wing activists. in behind one tree to us from bush me were attacked. on a ship by a young activist from kashmir says he has met dozens of students in delhi who fled how distant in different parts of india. he want to use about the message this sends to young gosh midis in the country. as a muslim it's been

a problem and. that is sad you know it's tragic that the people who have been feeding into the not at your fair just because this is the goal to me to go off the head of terrorists all the people who had been involved in the attack that they want to be some good society. as a fish meat on the business in new delhi college because he has not faced how distant but back home and gosh meet his family is what it's like my mother she talks only english me he saw she didn't talk to me in these two days because she thought that. people will come to know that i am so that is the feeling we display the hate which is spread but there is hope. in response to reports of targeted how this meant and violence against midis the hash tag on hits now started trending on twitter in india with people offering their

support and even their home. feeling threatened. krishnan a political activist did not want to. live. from other indians. she chose to offer her support meetings over twitter and she was not alone even a very ordinary people who are just instinctively feeling that this is wrong this kind of targeting is wrong so many people have come forward and opened the doors offered accommodation contributions. and generally tried to respond in a more humane way and i'm really reassured by that and finding this outpouring of support reassuring as well. khalid and his friends have created the group india focus means to share messages of support i'm sure that means that for all those targeting them many others will stand by them as well.

cannot make one thing right it is important to discuss the dog and then to create. something which helps. sides and not only one say it's important to speak peace. to the champions league knockout stages and we were all hoping for a dramatic clash between two great liverpool and by munich it was liverpool hosting by in the first of a two legged match up and ultimately defense was the winner in the clash. liverpool pressured by an munich from the get go it paid off the english side were creating them more and the better of their chances but liverpool's dominant display lacked the killer touch side human a with perhaps the best chance of the game but he couldn't quite get his footing right by unabsorbed on the pressure adopting

a more defensive approach it was effective liverpool where unable to break down by anstey fans with both sides shouting each other down this one ended in a goal this draw but if the first leg is anything to go by it certainly sets up an exciting return leg in munich. and the other big match of the evening also looked like it would produce lots of goals but despite barcelona's twenty five shots against illegal they couldn't find the net and the french side doing the same and the second goalless draw the night. you're watching the news has a recap of the top stories if you're finding field in strongs thousands of demonstrators have washed against anti semitism that's offer a spate of attacks in the country targeting the jewish community. and russian president a bloody me pushing has used in an address to promises government will raise living

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