little thank you for just soo much stories from 27. little. plane play a little plane. to the c.w. news line from berlin freed hostages say thanks to fallen heroes tourists rescued from captivity and working off also pay tribute to the french commandos who were killed in a daring raid that spring them over like a bomb a call for more also coming up. to washington ratchets up the pressure on iran as

a naval strike group heads to the persian gulf to back up a u.s. aircraft carrier and bombers already there washington says it's responding to threats from terror on we'll talk to an analyst about the situation in every chance to. play. welcome to the show. french special forces have rescued 4 foreign hostages from a militant group and burkina faso 2 soldiers were killed in the overnight raid in the west african country france has about 4 and a half 1000 troops in the region it's leading an effort aimed at fighting jihad as insurgents which is considered a relative success so far but at a cost $24.00 french soldiers have died since 2030. first appearance in freedom after a harrowing ordeal 2 frenchmen and

a south korean woman arrived at the presidential palace in kenya fasteners capsule for an audience with the country's leader. one of the men managed to find a few. thoughts go out to the families of the soldiers and to the soldiers who lost their lives to free us from this hell give them we wanted to offer condolences right away. the man was seized in neighboring brittany on may the 1st was touring an area france's long gun violence travels to avoid amid fears the hostages would be handed over to jihadists and mali french president manuel micro gave the green light to special forces to raid that captain's camp. that raid left 4 kidnappers dead as well as 2 french commandos centric to hear from. the team also stumbled across the south korean and another american hostage managing to free them both.

the forces have been in bicheno 1st operation. they were about 15 cannot be soldiers in attendance but there was also collaboration in terms of intelligence which led to the success of the operation don't go don't have the. jihadist groups of long been active across but in mali and the violence seems to be spreading france has some 4 and a half 1000 troops in the region to combat the threat and most locals back that presence. to britain we still need to increase our efforts to strengthen security that we have good collaboration between africans and other countries abroad to really find a solution and bring all these evil spirits far away i mean this is a bit too much but it was. the hostages and now heading home to their respective countries where they will be welcomed by political leaders and their families. i'm

joined now by 2 must sell a regional director for the sa hill at the conway aga now a foundation here in germany is based in bomb a co mr schiller thanks for joining us where these people very unlucky to be taken hostage or were they foolish to be visiting the area. good afternoon from the. onset your question or answer your question a little bit with luck because. the area of move from. is considered since a long time is a very long time as a very dangerous one as a no go area if you look at the map from the foreign ministry. it is formally. not counsel for the french and. other. western. countries. they should have known then what more do we

know about the group who took them. there are a lot of groups operating in. north. austin it's these are separate small groups which take hostages initially and then hand them over to larger groups and. in this case. this is a small group from both. the hostage taking and the hostages on the way to mali that the french general command said that it was really the last option. being. to mali and being handed over to a larger terrorist it would have been much more difficult. as you said there are several extremist groups operating in the area and jihadi violence appears to be on the rise in the what's fueling this increase. the increase is mainly due

to. the nonexistence of state institutions in a lot of. countries if you look at the center of molecules of gold kena. the nation state is not present and this is not only the presence of security forces which is cracking it's also the presence of basic state egyptians the territorial administration schools and all this means that a large part of the country which are not controlled anymore by the government in a very strong way that of course enables us to operate. that's one reason why we have this is quite an interesting and let me say also that it is not only jihadism which is a threat it's many many other. not not only jihadist ones

which are contributing to the insecurity. thomasville of the carnot adenauer foundation thanks for your now. thank you at least one person has been killed in an attack in the port city of guadalajara and southwestern pakistan reports say 3 gunman entered a luxury hotel and opened fire killing one security guard and military spokesman said guests have been evacuated but the situation was ongoing will bring you more information as a comes in. the united states is deploying an assault ship and a missile battery to the persian gulf to bolster other military vessels already in the area the u.s. said the move is in response to a possible threat to u.s. forces in the region by iran but they didn't specify the nature of that threat iran on the other hand has dismissed the claim the newly deployed vessels are the u.s.s. arlington which transports marines and landing an aircraft as well as patriot air

defense missiles they will join the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier that's already there. for more i'm joined now by danielle gallagher a middle east analyst welcome to the show the u.s. claims tehran might be preparing to conduct what it calls offensive operations against u.s. forces or its interests what evidence is there for this there's been a lot of the discussions in american media about some media claim that they say that they have sources in the intelligence community that intelligence has been inflated not mischaracterized but inflated by the by the white house look if you want to look at a possible scenario we should probably look back at the history of the middle east 1983 when the most deadly attack on u.s. troops in the middle east that was deadly attack on u.s. troops since the 2nd world war that time was conducted in beirut the u.s.

marines lost $241.00 lives in this attack and they blamed on a rainy and proxy organization for this so i think the americans are having such a scenario in mind however i think the most dangerous situation is that anyone could conduct such an attack for example the islamic state that would benefit from a from an escalation of the conflict in iran of the united states so many stakeholders so there and i think that makes the situation very very dangerous at the moment so you're saying this is not purely political pressure they're actually acting from a position of of fear. no i think i think they want to demonstrate strength and trump security advisor john bolton has made this clear multiple occasions that he wants regime change in iran he says we don't want war and trump says he doesn't want war but that's not the point if you corner the iranians to that extent you have to bear in mind that the iranian security establishment including the sitting president sitting president rouhani they are used to conflict they have been in war

for 10 years during the iran iraq war where they were actually in charge so they used to pressure and they used to this situation however the iranian population is suffering here the currency is on a thing from the economic warfare that is being conducted on iran and the point is nobody in iran really knows what to the u.s. one to do it is quite clear that iran is not going to take down the flags and say we surrender so what exactly does the u.s. want to do trump dropped his number so to say to the. consul who was representing the american interests in iran and he said i want the iranians to call me so the iranian social media are quite set casting about it they make lots of jokes they say yeah doctors number like like a boy in a in a in a club was dropping a number to a girl however like you know there's a lot of yes cynical optimism also involved that this is just a bluff but i wouldn't be so sure that the situation i think the situation could as could escalate rather quickly even if you know what he wants or what you just said trump asked iran to call him how likely are they to respond to that offer.

well president trump has said before that he would like to meet with president reagan president rouhani he said that after ranting about iran and basically personally insulting him seoul no wonder that rouhani did not respond to this. i think it is possible that direct negotiations could start but the point is from the iranian perspective about what this is exactly the point they have left the steel and in front of the world of the national of the international. security council somehow the iranians have have the moral high ground at the ball then because they have complied with this deal and i think this is rather the the problem it's not just about meeting like trump handled the north korea case where you just like met with kim you know on the side like he's a wonderful person we get along but still about what does he want to negotiate and what does he want to talk about that has been a deal since 2015 which was successfully implemented and i think unfortunately this

gives every argument to the hardliners in iran who say like you see we've been we've been fooled we've been disappointed we have been. basically you know our confidence was in vain well actually talking about this this nuclear deal of 2015 iran just this week and now is that it will stop complying with some of the parts of this of this agreement what are they trying to achieve with this is this the only leverage they have and what what does the country think about it seems so it seems so they've from iranians the iranian government says the europeans are somehow the government falls for this deal and so they have to sort it out and since we have nobody to turn to we want the europeans to fix it and the main demand from it from iran is that the europeans should somehow guarantee that iran continues to function you selling oil other the europeans don't even really have the instruments for that at the moment to guarantee this and we could go now into

the details the financial aspects of why does difficult but i think the iranian strategy or tactic has been so far to mount pressure on the europeans and the europeans for some all sorted out. i think the europeans are not that willing and that powerful at the moment to sort it out even though they want the deal to remain in place and the iranians know that at the same time the rains have given some time and the steps that they have taken not to implement the deal at the moment are not major and they can be there reversible again and again thank you for these insights thank you. china's top trade negotiator says he's cautiously optimistic his country can still reach a trade deal with the united states vice premier the new who made the comments after the u.s. and its plans to raise tariffs on all remaining chinese imports the new levies targets $300000000000.00 worth of chinese products including consumer electronics that's on top of $200000000000.00 worth of products hit by a 1st round of u.s.

tariff on friday increases come after negotiations between the 2 sides and without an agreement. governments in europe are coming under fire from aid groups after one of this year's deadly as shipwrecks in the mediterranean involving migrants at least $65.00 migrants drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of tunisia on friday. navy was able to rescue 16 people survivors said most of those on board the boat were from bangladesh they had departed from libya on thursday. south africa's governing african national congress is heading for a 6th straight term and power but with a diminished mandate with all votes counted the a.n.c. has been declared the winner with 57.5 percent but that's its lowest share since multi-ethnic democracy 25 years ago the party has been battling corruption scandals a sluggish economy and record unemployment even so it was far ahead of its closest

rival the opposition democratic alliance which trailed at just under 21 percent. you're watching news live from berlin up next a documentary about amazon's ever growing business with user data stay tuned for that and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information on our website that's d.w. dot com right now on behalf of the whole team thanks so much for joining. europe a big idea. but what's become of it. what will it look like tomorrow. living for a better future isn't enough in europe requires our participation.