grimwood g.w. . the book. the book. this is you know when you fly from berlin the end of an era the u.s. and russia walk away from a key cold war 3 a nuclear weapons nato costs. we will not mirror what threshold bullsh we don't want a new arm should each side blames the other for ending the medium range missile

agreement or both call for restraint also coming up on the program free at last to travel new laws means saudi women will be able to go abroad without the consent of their male guardian just starting at the end of this march plus just 5 years ago the so-called islamic state trying to exterminate the u.c.d. people of iraq now work began to open mass graves and hopes of finding those who sat. and a heavy metal have been leased small german village a block and it is transformed again to the hard rock capital of the world. thank you so much for your company everyone. the west does not want a new global arms race that's the word from nato secretary general yen stoltenberg

as comments come as a nuclear weapons treaty dating from the days of the cold war has collapsed on the ending of the intermediate range nuclear forces agreements or ins does away with limits on the arsenals of both the u.s. and russia says russia is to blame because it has developed a new cruise missile it was a tweet that announced the end of over 30 years of mutual nuclear restraint u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o squarely put the blame on russia when he declared the treaty ends today president trump had withdrawn from the agreement 6 months ago after russia deployed a new missile system that contravenes the i.n.f. terms according to washington and nato to. put russia is adamant that the us is responsible for the treaties unraveling. which we have discussed the subject in

detail many times from the very beginning we were saying that this is exclusively a u.s. initiative american friends confessed to shatter the stick raymond and then tema night participation and it. was really him this week coming to moscow has proposed a moratorium on deploying nuclear capable missiles and nato is also keen to avoid europe becoming a staging ground for a nuclear buildup would be funny we will not mirror what russia does we don't want a new officers and we have no intention to deploy a new land based nuclear me sides in europe. nato continues to aspire for a construct a relationship with russia when russia was actions make that possible. the end of a historic agreement struck between the u.s. and the soviet union presidents mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan signed the

treaty in 1987 a change of course after decades of cold attention. the root of the tension was this the soviet s s 20 missile a nuclear warhead that could strike western europe at short notice. that worried eastern european countries in the soviet occupied bloc they were well within the reach of 5 and a half 1000 kilometers. the us deployed its own mid range missiles in europe leading to protests across the west. the i.n.f. treaty resulted from widespread popular demand for deescalation when the cold war ended so did the fear of nuclear armageddon but with the end of the ins the specter of nuclear confrontation looms again. it was earning me now here on the set this is then see hall founder and executive board member of the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can in short right here in germany and some of you

might remember that in 2017 i can won the nobel peace price a very good day thank you for being here we highlighted some of the significance of that landmark treaty but what made it so crucial where you had to remember that people of my age and he grew up in a world which was completely different from what humanity might see now in terms of the fact that we were all scared there was going to be a nuclear war and we all went on the outs on the streets and millions in western europe and also in the united states went out in the streets to ask for these weapons to be scrapped and so it was a big deal when in 1987 the reagan and gorbachev actually decided yes we'll do that and she got rid of a whole category of nuclear weapons now the focus is on russia but let's turn our attention to the u.s. is pulling out of the i.n.f.

treaty by the us the right decision even though russia is not complying was it was it too quick to act by pulling out or definitely i'm weary of the opinion that they should have really tried harder to work out their differences and russia's also put a said that they didn't think that they would noncompliance and they've offered to after the today's announcement also the treaty is ended they have also offered a moratorium so the question is could there be more done to try to save this really important treaty for europe and we don't think that enough has been done and we certainly don't think that the europeans that doing enough to try to save it as an arms controls expert yourself do you feel that there's still a use for these treaties. should we be debating whether they're useful today i don't think we should be debating on the usefulness of treaties i think we should actually be debating whether we have these nuclear weapons at all anymore and the

reason that i can won the nobel peace prize was because we actually helped to develop a new treaty which was. passed by the un in 2017 and would ban completely all nuclear weapons and this is where we want to go we want to get rid of all of them which is actually what obama was talking about in 2009 when he said he was looking forward to a nuclear weapon free will what does this latest collapse of the i.m.f. now mean for i can's efforts and also for this country germany which once again finds itself in the middle of a very tricky situation well it makes everything a lot harder of course because at least we had the feeling that there was a treaty protecting europe but now we have to fight now also to try to stop missiles being brought back into europe which would in dangerous all once again and return this to the same position we were in the eighty's which we thought we had

left behind but still we do have this new treaty and we also have nearly half of the countries that we need to ratify the nuclear ban treaty so we're quite positive positive about the idea that we will get there in the end you're quite positive that this must be definitely a low point i mean is this an end of an era when do you think is going to replace the system that we have a right now and what is the future of arms control well to be fair we knew this was coming i mean we had 6 months to prepare for this day and we are prepared we have been thinking about what to do and we are calling on european leaders to now stand up and work in the interests of europe and call on the united states and russia not to actually station or deploy any nuclear weapons in europe do you think they'll be receptive to your demands well i hope so and i'm starting with jim and foreign minister santhi hall from i can thank you for coming and great leadership your

insights thank you. now want to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world german customs officials have seized a 1000000000 euros worth of cocaine found in a shipping container in the port of hamburg well the drug shipment weighed more than 4 tons and is the largest ever confiscated in germany. european stock markets took a beating after a surprise announcement by u.s. president donald trump of new tariffs on china trump said an additional 10 percent tax on $300000000000.00 worth of chinese imports would take effect on september 1st all this comes after the latest round of trade negotiations between beijing and washington showed little sign of progress or. a change dispute between japan and south korea has escalated with both countries dropping each other's status as preferred trading partners japan said its decision was based

on national security concerns but south korea slammed it as a declaration of economic war and threatened to end an intelligence sharing pact. suspected al qaeda militants have raided a military camp in the southern yemeni province of beyond witnesses say the assailants killed at least 20 soldiers and battled yemeni security forces for several hours the militants were eventually expelled from the camp after reinforcements arrived backed by the united arab emirates. saudi arabia has announced new laws allowing women to travel abroad without approval from a male guardian women over the age of $21.00 will be able to apply for a passport from the end of this month while the reforms signify a shift away from the country's guardianship system as things stand saudi arabia

considers women to be on the same level as minors and gives men almost complete control over their lives there have been several recent high profile attempts by saudi women q escape their guardians not all of them successful. well i'm now here joined by our very own a bit of humor to talk about this latest development before you tell us more about the lifting of travel restrictions against women and women sorry help frame this discussion the gergen ship system what is life like for women under that particular system well they have essentially no. agency under the system so. there were many steps in the past years to ease the system but this would put restrictions on whether or not they could take a job where they would study. if they could study this also put restrictions on them getting medical care if

a woman for example is detained or put in a correctional facilities she's unable to leave these correctional facilities until a male guardian comes and basically takes her out and the structures through the woman's entire life even when she's up to her sixty's the guardianship is passed on from father to husband and then to son so essentially this strips the guardianship system effectively strips women of legal agency in the eyes of the state ok now the saudi ambassador to the u.s. has called this latest move the lifting of the travel restrictions on women as history in the making is that it's a big moment and one shouldn't underplay the significance of this again up until yesterday women could not even take a apply for a passport however it's important to remember that this is coming by royal decree these are very top down decisions coming in there isn't something like a like a like a parliament and then discusses these laws and then votes on them so it remains to

be seen if these top down decisions then what would happen once they start being implemented on the ground and whether society is really ready for them and how the more stringent segments of saudi society will react to them we have one tweet here that we found which was a reaction. to the decision this is coming from a male a man who said i'm afraid of this decision for a woman over the age of 20 want to travel without family members or her husband when our religion says a woman should be traveling with a male guardian so it remains to be seen how this plays out once it actually comes into effect that's the whole thing we don't know in terms of bottom up whether there will be widespread support for this but for now it will be the law of the land starting september or end of this month remains to be seen as to when it will come to effect how will society reforming there have been a lot of these decisions i mean remember we had in you know last year the ban off of women driving this was the last country in the world that actually banned women from driving it was lifted last year also with

a royal decree but there still remains a lot of work has to be done on the one hand there's the social getting society to to catch up but then also we have all of these so many women activists like jane and has i'm going to seriously think about her because she is behind bars but she and i think a couple of other women activists have basically people their lives i mean they're still alive but they're behind bars to get these reforms in their country exactly jane is sort of a high profile case she was one of the woman who defied the driving ban when it wasn't allowed for men to drive back in saudi arabia and seen as a group of other women who basically sacrificed for these reforms to actually take place but once you know these reforms are starting to take place she's been in prison there have been reports of her being subjected to gruesome kinds of torture which begs the question why aren't these women the women that have fought for these for for these reforms out on the streets celebrating basically the gains of their struggle what why is saudi arabia still holding these women ok well keep us abreast

on that as always thank you for your knowledge of. we're going to turn our attention now to president. because he has been heavily criticized for his recent remarks targeting people of color especially democratic politicians well at yesterday's rally in the battleground state of ohio he stopped short of overtly racist comments but he continued to lash out at the democrats and mock presidential hopefuls such as former vice president joe biden. and the detail we use always on a phenomena meant some supporter in cincinnati who looks forward to voting for trump in next year's election regardless of his opponent. for diane written things are falling into place right now born and raised in cincinnati she has been a republican for decades she even met her how spent on the party events and day and read and is an ardent supporter of the president's trump she says there are plenty

of reasons for him to get reelected unemployment as an all time low employment at an all time high the stock market is as high which means all of our investment accounts are all very high right now he believes in secure borders i believe in secure borders i think to have a country you have to control who comes in and out of our country in downtown cincinnati the crowds began gathering hours before the rally as they already chairwoman of the hamilton county republican party they yawn written and showed the arena through at the ip entrance i'm excited about been excited about it all day it was hard to concentrate and work this morning to get that out of the way so i can be free to enjoy the afternoon usually trump uses his release like he uses his twitter accounts to praise his accomplishments and still rate he's a pony and last month he had text democratic congress women of color urging them to

go back to where they came from and do more then a year before election day president trying to make you know the secret of the album and accuse me election. day and have been very retrograde who i am concerned with stability and political correct and that is what the supporters like about it because they see it he tells it like it is on like and the other only decent democrat lawmakers care more about illegal aliens then they care about their own config. once they put foreign citizens before american citizens they would love to see a guy like sleepy joe biden who has no clue what the hell he's doing. in cincinnati tromp attack prominent democrats painting them as leftwing extremists but he avoided remarks that could be criticized as racially charged when you

believe that there were no center back jan said he didn't talk about politicians of color very very much yes i we did not want that a cincinnati and i did not want any of that here so there was no negative about that so that was a big plus diane read and was happy with the trump rally in cincinnati he was talking to his crowd here she said at least where he's people. 5 years ago the so-called islamic state started its attacks on the u.c.d. religious minority in iraq campaign of genocide all of these images that you see right here show you see these fleeing the onslaught of i.a.'s forces back in august 24th teen without food or water an estimated 200 children died of dehydration as people descend at the slopes of mount singe our ancestral home in northwestern iraq well for those left behind life became a nightmare i asked fighters rape women and shot all the singe our region i was

liberated from the so-called islamic states in november 25th but many as it is still live in refugee camps and thousands remain unaccounted for. remembers exactly when he last saw his brother it was august 3rd 2 cells approaching went together with their families they fled the approaching i asked titus his brother trying to find food and was caught by the terrorists along with time on the family members for a long time but she hoped that his brows i was still in life as well. no longer have any hope there's no more ah yes not in a rock not in syria not anywhere and only they would have been able to keep prisoners in. bashar and those left of his family currently live in a refugee camp in northern iraq like many years they are afraid to go back home afraid of their arab neighbors who they say cooperated with the head. bashar and

his family provided blood samples to the authorities hoping that they were mance of his brother will be found they are haunted by the memories bashar says but still. better to know what happened to my brother in law. in march iraqi or thirties together with the u.n. finally began to exhume the 1st mass graves. many disease came to witness it. desperately seeking closure 5 years after i s. killed their men and then slaved their women and children hundreds if not thousands of years he used a belief to be buried the disinterment began in cultural home town of nobel peace prize winner and that young herself and i asked victims she caught on authorities to protect the mass graves and thus the evidence of what the years he's had to endure. that there is not

a single yazidi family they didn't taste the bitterness of this genocide they all lost their loved ones their property and their dreams. lots sandals and bones are being tested in a forensic lab in fact that. specialists are trying to identify victims through their d.n.a. and they are searching for criminal evidence. but time has taken its toll the bones have been exposed to flats fire and fighting it could take years experts say to put cases together but the families want answers sooner. as a pause i'm haga of the work will be carried out quickly and not neglected i don't want them to start to consume the graves now and then drag their feet for 2 or 3 years. if you haven't been to date only 12 out of more than 70 confirmed mass graves have been exhumed recent wildfires in the us

homeland have already destroyed several grace and each day it is getting harder to identify possible victims and to secure hard evidence for islamic states crimes. and that was you know here's a big it's a shocker reporting and she joins me now here on the says so good to have you here with with us a very good say you were in synch our region as we were just able to see and you sketched some of the situation there but tell us more what was it like. i mean the situation on the ground is really devastating the whole because the whole region more or less is destroyed and we have to end it we have to remember i mean the reach it was liberated 4 years ago in november 2015 and since then barely any reconstruction effort hasn't taken place so there are no schools there's no work so it's a horrible situation but most importantly the people don't feel safe there because it isn't the area where militias operating iraqi military iraqi

security service local police says so a lot of forces are there and there are believed to be still a lot of i as supports on the ground only some days ago 2 men were kidnapped and killed by supposedly i as a supporter so it's a traumatic remember and that they are not safe there of course what was so tragic and even more traumatic i imagine for the people who were there you've been reporting as well so many more than 70 mass graves i should say in this region alone has been identified why is it so important to open them and look for evidence these evidence to secure this evidence is so important for a few to try it right now i as militants they are prosecuted in local local tries speedy trial it's only on charges of belonging to

a terrorist organization but the yazidi really are hoping for an international crime tribunals like we had in rwanda and former yugoslavia and they really want the perpetrators to be prosecuted on charges of genocide offense placement and all this stuff but for that to happen they need to support of the divisional community and right now not too much have come forward brings me to my final question to you do the people still have a future in their homeland. i can't tell you if the have won but i can tell you that most use the days we were talking to don't see a future there i talked to a woman who was in slaved 2 years together with their names children and she told me for me i don't have any future anymore but i really want to have a future for my children and that won't be in synch nor in iraq have to go that's a very sad conclusion there did abusive bigots are sure to thank you for your

reporting thank you. and as a something also gather different if you've never heard of rock and you are probably not into heavy metal every august a small village in northern germany plays host to one of the biggest and loudest music festivals in the world it's not to everyone's taste of course but for metal 2 heads like in the high point of the year. it was the moment these metal fans have been waiting for all year hitting the how tough before the main stage. but the party's already been rocking for days buchan's about the fun's as much as the music. and there's a lot of people here that are absolutely crazy and have loads of beer with them that can only mean fun. a city of tents appears every year for the $80000.00 festival goers. here they can leave the worries of the world behind.

it all begun 30 years ago 2 local lads from the village of satin planned the festival and provided the entertainment themselves. they still run it today and can hardly believe their success. story in the village plays along the fans play along the bands play along they give amazing performances that mean the world it's a mixture of everything i need is the mission was i and key element of luck and special charm is the locals enjoyment of the occasion from farmer to mayor they all party cheek by jowl with the mental funds. that's why the 30th can open a certainly will be the last. my hair is too short i can't headbang our way or right and out of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour. the u.s.

and russia have blamed each other for ending a landmark nuclear. missile treaty dating from the cold war nato secretary general against stoltenberg has assisted the west doesn't want a new arms race. you're watching you know we news of mexico india looks at efforts to save the polluted new moon a river don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock just by heading to our website e.w. dot com and while rock and roll ever thank you for spending this part of you to. mock.

banga loose more surveys in india silicon valley. is running out of read the threads in recent years has created the most a crisis the city needs sustainable solutions and money could be suicide and ancient tradition.

on details of. the women's world cup the cocoa america gold cup and the africa cup of nations it was a season high pitched soccer raksha as it runs down a notch to certain events is right around the corner the german bundesliga is heating up and as always we're there to keep you up to date with the latest on. the move on whose leaders are starting over 16. the world is getting better soon. more's catastrophe a lot of problems. the global $3000.00 talks would seem british researchers take

a more optimistic view. the world is not always a good point but it's much much better than it was and how. is the world really getting better. a global $3000.00 special reports. starts august 19th sunday to. the. hello and welcome to a brand new episode of eco india a sustainability magazine vivi train the spotlight on solutions to the biggest environmental problems affecting us to be. coming to you from mumbai in india over

the next 30 minutes why delhi is largest. and what can be done to see that tradition.