this is d.w. newsline from britain was a step closer to leaving the european union with. the recent may senior team arrived at ten downing street for five hours after parliament rejected the prime minister's. deal. must break the deadlock this week. also on the program. women from the west their roles within the terrorist group are often unclear now many want to return to the places

they used to call home. to one of. the poor has a right to a safe life. the had. been facing growing criticism for payments from a federation subsidiary and for some of his decisions while. i'm still gail welcome to the program today british politicians once again locked in a stranglehold on monday rejected a number of alternatives to the prime minister's unpopular e.u. withdrawal deal theresa may set warring capitals has been holding a meeting for hours to thrash out ways to break the deadlock. that the danger of

crashing out of the european union is very likely and growing by the day a number of european leaders have made similar comments. will get you any extension if the u.k. decides to ask or it will oblige the right to organize e.u. elections in may well not extension will any more uncertainty so it has a political and economic cost to the rest if you could. let's go to brussels i will be joined by brussels bureau chief maxwell welcome clearly the e.u. still has to be convinced by britain. well the problem here really is and that's what michel you mentioned the e.u. elections the e.u. is afraid that the whole braggs a process if it's again extended could hijack the e.u. elections and compromise the e.u. institutions just to give you an example phil what happens let's say that they extend article fifty so effectively delay the braggs it until june thirtieth that

was a date that was in question before these new dates and they don't participate in the e.u. elections that take place in may at the end of may but then at the end of june they decide oh sorry about all that we are going to withdraw article fifty something they can do so effective we stay in the european union without having organized the european elections that could compromise the functioning of the e.u. institutions and that's something they want to avoid at all costs having said that is there a country there we've heard of at the moment that would deny the u.k. another extension is to resign may the u.k. prime minister came to ask for it next week at a special summit here in brussels so far we think no because nobody really wants to be responsible for the u.k. crashing out of the e.u. ok now the french president has just been meeting with ireland's t.v. show what have we learned of the discussions. three messages that are not unfamiliar first one there is still time that something that the french president

might call stress there still can be a solution to this and the solution in the eyes of the european union of course would be the approval of the deal that had been negotiated for years between the u.k. government and the european union the second one is just to make sure if the u.k. crashes out of the european union it's not the fault of the european union but of the u.k. that's the message that we might call it strands vein here and the third one and that's the most important one of course if you have the irish prime minister is that the e.u. will stand by their land no matter what happens and of course it's in the interest of ireland to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and ireland and that's what the whole business of the backstop was for those so this is insurance policy basically to avoid the hard border but i can tell you this here in brussels many ambassadors many diplomats have been looking into the eyes of the irish every day asking are you sure about this isn't it better maybe to limit the backstop let's say for four or five years then the u.k. crashing out of the e.u.

without a deal because that would mean immediately reinstalling the border between northern ireland and ireland and i can tell you nobody is ready for that ok now the british prime minister position is coming under increasing pressure from. now let's listen to what one of them has andrew bridge and. trees of my leadership has to be questioned she's signed up to a deal which she's been warned i will in the last july that checkers would not lead to a proposal i could support all that was in the interest of our country or all paul in the tree democracy she's lost over twenty members of the government resigned over it and she's pressed on with it and that shows a huge error of leadership a much elfman in brussels how would they view a change of captain on the british titanic. the problem with theresa may for the european union and by the way that's not only a problem for the european union is that even if they decide something together with theresa may in brussels they can't count on her actually being able to

implement it back in the u.k. but she still is a known entity they have to accept her as their negotiating partner because there is nobody else and what might come afterwards might even be less e.u. friendly than theresa may i mean boris johnson one of the leading brics to tears is in discussion to follow up to theresa may so up until now i would say that the strategy here in brussels was to reset main is no she's a known entity she's the best thing we can have at the moment to talk to but that might have changed or is in the process of changing because if you have a prime minister from the u.k. that actually has no power back home with the house of commons and it's increasingly going into that direction is it really worth talking to her max hoffman in brussels thank you so much and i will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world algeria's president has announced that he'll step down before his term ends on the twenty eighth of april speaking on state television abdelaziz bouteflika said steps were

being taken to ensure that the country's institutions continue to function during the transition paving to growth has faced a beaks of mass protests demanding and whose twenty year. germany has sent a diplomatic process to brunei over new islamic laws that will introduce the death penalty for homosexual acts the foreign office said it had appealed to brunei to and he had to existing international human rights a big ations the laws that you take effect on wednesday. the prime ministers of greece and north macedonia have taken a historic selfie together they were snapp's during the first official visit by a greek leader to the country's simple code name but the former yugoslav republic of macedonia changed its name to north macedonia earlier this year settling the dispute with greece. a blast at a top russian military school has injured at least three people russia's defense

ministry said the explosion in central said beatrice berg was caused by an improvised device as eleven suspected islam is went on trial in a ministry court in the city accused of organizing a suicide bombing. there has been more than a year a week since international forces declared that they had retaken the islamic state group's last syrian hold out now many western countries are debating what to do about their nationals were captured all while fighting for all supporting i asked amongst the captured are women many claim they were forced to join the militants and say they carried out housekeeping duties rather than acts of terror in estimates at around fifty women with german citizenship or other imprisoned or live in refugee camps in syria and iraq or is there what the match is quickly as possible but germany is reluctant to take them back out during that it's difficult to determine whether they are citizens and whether they pose any security risk d.w.

has been to visit a syrian refugee camp and spoke with one woman with a german passport who is desperate to come back. stranded in the middle of nowhere seventy four thousand people live in the al whole camp in northern syria it was made to hold only ten thousand the conditions are unacceptable especially for children most people want to leave as soon as possible they want to return to their former homes which they left years ago so they could live under the rule of the jihadist group islamic state out of conviction carelessness or compulsion. they now gergen studied psychology in berlin and married a turkish man during a trip to turkey he took her to syria where he joined us at least that is how the twenty three year old describes that. this doctor she calls on is often terrible things happened there i'm that kind that women and children do not have

any value systems women are terribly abused and beaten by us mine are mine and my former husband died about two years ago. it happens he locked us up and abused us in horrible ways. i couldn't recognize myself one day in day out. talk and talk also. her son was born during the chaos of war the two of them suffered years of hardship and now she hopes she has survived the worst and things will get better. i inspire i have a two year old son but the poor boy has a right to a safe life and. thankfully we could flee from those i as terrorists. we were just trashed their. women and children are worth nothing to them. it's horrible what i asked does in the name of islam. i'm happy

that i can return to my beloved homeland times germany. and in my grave to say. the kurdish authorities would like to get rid of foreigners like zainab as quickly as possible but hardly any country wants them back the local authorities are overburdened with investigating securing evidence clarifying guilt and international court is now supposed to solve the issue but the west is treating this initiative with great caution. the presence of thousands of fighters and their families is a major problem for the autonomy authorities in northeastern syria. we do not have the possibility of bringing them to justice here if they have committed crimes against syrians or iraqis now they spend their days waiting to go back home but their fate remains uncertain as long as they are not welcome in their former homelands i think for their station with journalist

a christopher he writes for the german news magazine and joins us from the town commission in northern syria a welcome to day doubly so what happens to these people the man on the women when kurdish authorities want to be rid of them but their home countries don't want them they are stuck in a total limbo because a kurdish city can never expect to find and subsequently to rest so many people in this small area of the whole state expected if you so since maximum turned out between fifty and sixty and but always alone in additional ten fifteen so they bring in this group or so they don't know how to ost so many people how to cover the second thing it's a regionally kurt song they have something precious we cease people they care

foreigners at least they can hold in a chain that walked in with their own countries for. political recognition later to me see all the things and it turns out. to exchange but nobody wants to so decent people cannot in syria made in prison women and children it eventually they said it is terrible situation nobody knows how to this will continue as we go and that's where we saw in the film that many of the women claim to be victims of i asked rather than willing supporters what do you think. well there is a giant gray zone of people. some of them we've talked to over the last leaks but also months earlier who claimed a didn't knew warse forced late mail tweets you don't see the father of your children i love you please come by me and to follow them and

they gave some face online propaganda that it's all gonna be fine they were mentally unstable not really what was expected of them. and now they have some who probably lie about what they really feel but others. who never been the brightest and still aren't in. honestly say they went into i is territory believe that it will always leave and return which was impossible after two south. indian eighteen which tend to tear decisions to count because after two fifteen whoever wanted to leave would be arrested or killed at least that's about what they claim so rather than not let's talk about what happens to them if they if they do come back i'm you aware of what sort of level of success countries have had with sort of the radicalization programs for returning i asked

fighters and associates. what it's pretty early in a note very few functioning examples of such programs because most countries believed to still either die or we can we can mostly refuse to take an eight which is legally impossible and alien ethical but since you asked it isn't one country and particularly one city article in denmark which has ends. prudently we see people left and returned always people they were. but you had the these tendencies and wanted to leave did you really cheer we see individual main tour for each and every of these persons who basically. through life we stand for a period of years really old lock them up in some camp but you really really focus

on this person and you see what he's needs what misstates and gauge he feels there's always somebody i can talk to each can help me and there's no force involved but yeah it's the see the other guy is major and now that joke it always something and it's not such a bad thing. much more or you it can it can be done christophe a writer in northern syria it's very fascinating thank you so much for joining us here on the double. that of kenya where hundreds of thousands of people are believed to suffer from a disease known as jigger infestation the trigger is a tiny sandfly that burrows into the fate creating serious health problems people with a condition are also often ostracized by their community says or did only report amounted quote about visited a school in kisumu where children are being trained to help each other come back because the condition. to read up past the loves going to school

the best part is being able to concentrate on her lessons but that wasn't always the case the twelve year old's feed used to be full of diggers tiny sand fleas that bar into people's bare flesh causing burning painful lesions. terrible i couldn't play i couldn't jump i stretch myself mostly at night for a long time like you will see. other children at this primary school in consumer county still suffer from the minute parasite constant itching and severe pain makes it difficult for the infected students to walk and impossible for them to concentrate in class untreated figures can lead to deform claims gang green and fatal technics infections figures are a widespread but neglected health problem in africa official figures are hard to come

by in the schools here in consume almost a third of pupils unfactored with dick is going to have them. so much pain ever tire was scratching myself. well last night was too painful. i still feel pain. it's not just the pain of the actual infection that's the problem but also the teasing and social exclusion by the other children the students here dipankar primary school have decided to do it differently instead they are helping each other. here in local ngo has been training these children who've made it their mission to take a guess what's more being treated by their friends and peers has helped fight the fear of the treatment and the stigma associated with the disease. across kisumu students and the health scouts they actually believe that having to give is a poor people's disease and to helping their schoolmates heal and instead of the

traditional method of pulling out the fleas which is excruciating they're using a pain free technique where. we start with the ones who are severely infected we wash their feet we put them in a second basin with fresh water and they stay there with their feet inside for five minutes. then the scouts wipe the whole legs with medicine and we ask them to sit in the sun work that the jury does brothers edward and he will last you will soon be ticket free then just like derrida will be able to enjoy school again. many introduce a decus treatment if noticed a definite change in the students' performance the school generally improved and we scored high in the national exams and seeing them heal and starting to play with each other that has made me happy as a health teacher and. they do get treatment has changed these students' lives. they know i love going to the river to fetch water i love to study

and to play i feel better because i'm here at the neck and play i can walk properly i can jump us well. three to hopes that obvious schools across the region will adopt this way of dealing with the digger fleet she wants other pupils to be able to love school as much as she does. or in sport the embattled head of germany's football federation rinehart glendale has resigned has been facing growing criticism over payments he received from the federation subsidiary as well as some of the decisions he made while in charge of the world's biggest sports federation. brian hart grindle was forced to go on the defensive more and more in recent times germany's twenty eighteen world cup last year one such example but some of the criticism hit much closer to home the final straw allegations last week grindle failed to declare income of seventy eight thousand euros for being chairman of the federation subsidiary media company. questions over grendel's leadership style

never went away especially his handling of the measured affair when the now retired international met in the pits when doors turkey's president wretch of type one that overshadowed the build up to the world cup and the judgment came under the spotlight grindle was accused of scapegoating the player for germany's failure. i night last month grindle who is also a fee for vice president d w interview refusing to discuss funding for fee for his controversial global nations leak like the. tunnel guns because the former journalist if you didn't know which were ready now clear what it's like to feel the heat. of people from across hundreds from a d w a sport welcome crest thanks so it's always the money isn't it was it was it the financial allegations that finally sank him you know i think that was part of it you know not failing to report these five as the earnings that he received and

also he was gifted in expensive watch from a ukrainian businessman who was also a football you know official in some context so those two things you know don't look good when you factor in the history of his predecessor from what. he had to step down to twenty fifteen because allegedly germany pay bribes to win the whole the right to host the world cup in two thousand and six and basically. excuse me basically he was brought in when it was brought in and he disc leered griddles name that they said oh you know there was no excuse me grendel cleared in the investigation into what took place regarding that it's just bad because clearly the investigation might continue down the road like this the two thousand scuse me two thousand and six the fairytale is being investigated from the financial side the tax authorities the state and this might be the same situation you know with this so and when you look at his history he had no international footballing history he was kind of put in this place and has been

a disaster in my opinion since you tomorrow or maybe whoever takes over from him will end up clearing him as well everybody's five listen lots of people are going to point to germany's shocking performance of the royal couple last year as a good reason in itself for a shakeup i think this is really what really brought it into the public conversation because you know all eyes were in germany there were the world cup holders and seeing if they would crash out of the group stage like you know. a winners prior to germany had done that proved to be true and then there was the issue we heard of the report about ms it was ill you know the way grendel dealt with that was really bad and then subsequent to the world cup in the premature exit retired he basically called brindle a racist on social media he put out his big four part series detailing that you know so those things brindle as we know in his past he's known for say multiculturalism is only a myth so all of these things factored in in the premature departure in the world cup was just too much for him to bear and it was smart this is of understand now so

who's likely to replace him well right now philip lamas being groomed to be the replacement that's what you know that all the reports are suggesting he is currently the head of the organizing committee of the twenty twenty four euro which germany is hosting so that's good and he's a byron guy because byron munich was one team an organization that strongly criticised grendel calling him him in amateur in terms of running you know the organization we have sound from philip and he shared his opinion on the matter let's take a listen it might have been documented days the first of april so i'll just leave it out i have no ambition walks away ever going to be president and these people didn't together well you know he doesn't want the job he doesn't sound like my side right i mean that's what you're supposed to say that's a politically correct answer you know but you know what in the fillin did was was after the world cup disaster with germany he went to link to in dot com and then

sent out an open letter criticizing grendel and questioning the leadership skills of your so he basically put himself in a position to make it known to the young upcoming talent in germany he understands and he's relatable. in that sense. that he understands of it i think it might be a good position for him in the future obviously the eurozone twenty four is coming up before. that and hearing what he has to say he's not going to put his name in the head just yet you know but i'm sure he wouldn't reject it until september they have to wait for a vote right now the current vice presidents are going to be filling in the presidential responsibilities into their vote takes place but philip obama i think is a front runner i don't want to watch that chris how he survived every sport fact you are right. it's a tourist in iceland had to dash to higher ground after witnessing the forces of nature from a distance it was a little too close for comfort they were hiking near the glass when it collapsed suddenly sending big waves to strike the. a no one was injured.

let's take a look at our top story this hour britain's cabinet members are holding an emergency meeting i have to follow them to be checked at the full time since to. deal the e.u. says christmas break the deadlock this week. is that kicks off taking you through all the bones as they get action from the i'll be back at the top of the hour of course you can get all the latest news the

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