but pursing issues. paying farewell to a glacier why iceland is mourning the loss of a massive ice sheet and warning that it is time to pull the emergency brake on climate change i'm sumi so much going to in berlin this is the day. this is the 1st battle of the glacier and unsupportive appear to explain or i feel sad and i feel that i'm just going to be room for an alternative generation probably close to a 100 days or so does a good to the last century. if the british are some scientists and if you see them happening we will see all these years disappear in the last decades there are 200 true for you to draw on the insurgents are going to. push through that is

going to need to be seen the way we are working in the us is a challenge and i held up my country until the last week it's a big loss and why i didn't do enough lead international cooperation among the president to scale. also on the day 5 years of conflict in eastern ukraine and there is still no end in sight to the fighting today a new push from the french president to bring russia and ukraine back to the negotiating table. we have to reinvent an architecture of security and trust between the european union and russia and france will play its full role and you all can. a warm welcome to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world tonight the german chancellor angela merkel is in iceland for talks with nordic leaders talks that will focus on the

need for action on climate change now chancellor merkel was welcomed in the icelandic capital reykjavik where her counterpart prime minister country dr reminded everyone about the high price that her country is paying for global warming. climate change is something that my government is prioritizing very much and we had actually here yesterday and i started just close here to see if this ceremony where we actually go there because we have the 1st please sure disappearing in iceland oh cool. right now the glacier the prime minister was talking about as we can see behind me except the ice is all but gone now to get an idea of the transformation here's an aerial shot of the glacier sitting on top of the oak hall kaino and this photo was taken by nasa back in 1906 and if we take a look at this 2nd picture here this is what oak looked like just

a few weeks ago so over the past 30 years the glacier has almost entirely melted away iceland officially declared it dead in 2014 when we were so pleased to have him here iceland wants to bring awareness to the fate of oak glacier and the future of the rest of its glaciers so as we hear the country mark the passing of the massive ice sheet the prime minister a climate researchers journalists members of the public attended and they fixed a bronze plaque to a boulder in the former glacier on it was a letter to the future of this is what it says oak is the 1st icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier in the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path this monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done only you know if we did it now the former un human rights commissioner mary robinson now a campaigner for climate justice was also at the ceremony. i feel very humbled to

be here to be off because this is an occasion for iceland but in fact it's also for the whole world we're marking the death of a cliff here did we ever think that we would be doing this. one man who might have known what happened before most people is bruckner axel sun is an icelandic photojournalist who is spent the last 35 years photographing the world's remote arctic regions his book the acquittal documents the spectacular and rapidly vanishing glaciers of his homeland. and he joins us for more from reykjavik good to see you how do you feel personally about your vanishing. this is the reality and we just accept it and i think it's. what happens when it's when it's gone it's likely to get the attention. i think.

more and more people will start to see. you probably wish that it as you probably wish right now that it got the same attention when it was still there i mean you have been photographing the glaciers how do you remember this glacier and the glacier landscape in general. it was like a couple of the guys and this days it was like a night and other news was what 15 square kilometers was gone and if you take a snipers it was a very famous one with stories john is a sense of it was in i think now it's $10.00 it was 22 square kilometers some $930.00 something like that so they were going fast down and then i grew up underneath. the south coast and i was necessary and as a kid and the rivers and so i've seen it happen. and been burning in the arctic for about. 4 years since i've seen them up and see how the changes and i think is

waking up more and more and it's very important to document things both life and people and living out again and everything's taking and to show the world right now that's incredible to hear you've had such a personal experience with these glaciers as you said he spent decades photographing the arctic why and what have you learned in that time. well to respect nature to respect the planet when i was in like an agreement with the hunters the they're getting fewer and fewer because the ice is fitting to the area they have to have to stay on the ice is shorter so when you look up. lived in a tent on the ice and on the ocean and you look up and see the stars and you start to realize that we're just a little off in this billions of stars so then you start to think everything over again you know and you have to face your kids defensives and later on when question

comes when for when what why did you do anything and so to me it just photographing showing what's happening is very important as hobbits. but it's very expensive to do that that has to be the books. well you're certainly not the only one right and we've also seen other artists like all different lesson trying to draw attention as you are to disappear in place do you think that i can really play an important role in bringing awareness to what's happening i don't think so i think of just taking over the show that this is the think that out is they have to do i was flying with all of the deep if i got the place at times 20 years ago and you know like 42 of them and now we really do is really doing it i'm playing that in my plane. and then go on most of it is we just we are searching for what we're out there not to have you have to figure out you know they were just looking at the mountains as

well and i think it's going to be a remarkable thing like everything he's doing so it's a great honor to work with them so yeah it's i think awkward would have to stand up and take over the show were the not saying to stop the wheels turning in the bombs out of nothing like that but it's just there are also opportunities but the article is the real war is i think it's even worse than but the politicians have to make the decisions and the ones who will be the greatest decisions on the planet right now want to ask you because you're someone who's grown up in this landscape but for people we have viewers around the world and for people watching elsewhere why is it important to keep these glaciers a lot. it's hard to keep them alive because they lack the standards otherwise you have to paint your roof white or you know in the street in the city so something like that i don't know but they respect the sunlight and

then they're gone and there's the next black sand and that just keeps you know that's you know it's a very serious but it is a gracious and and the out there going to go and when it does go on then and there's a good story there is that is what keeps the fighting so we're. so that's very important with the 2 or 3 things we can all read a message there to all of our viewers around the world our photojournalists ragnar axelson a joining us from reykjavik thank you so much for speaking to us thank you. meanwhile another sign that clay sure is not the only ice sheet at risk 2 kayakers in alaska went out to explore alaska spencer glacier and get a closer look and they certainly did not just as they paddled over a wall of ice crumbled on the crashed into the water sending chunks of ice and huge waves their way was a close call for the 2 men and they got soaked and suffered minor bruises but they

say they were lucky to be alive. right still to come on the day born in a war zone now a chance at a new life why some european countries are taking back children whose parents were islamic state fighters i did a mistake i came here my children are here if i have to sit trying to years in prison and i have to pay for it even the money for that i stand prison i want to go to her 2 years in prison really here is psychologic more testing guantanamo. but 1st our rare meeting in the mediterranean french president is hosting his russian counterpart vladimir putin at his summer holiday retreat off the french coast this is no vacation the 2 leaders have plenty of issues on the agenda especially trying to find

a solution to the conflict in eastern ukraine here's what they had to say as things got underway the only night while in close collaboration with presidents alinsky and chancellor merkel we would have to consider the opportunity of a new so much like the normandy so much with infamy if we manage to do it like that going forward and whatever else. you're putting playing into this i will talk with president michel about my life his contacts with the new ukrainian president and with them he's a young man there are things that are worth talking about and they give grounds for cautious optimism for the for the quest or not to use the. government forces have been battling russian backed separatists in eastern ukraine for 5 years now to pull diplomacy hasn't worked but ukraine now has a new leader the french president is trying to restart peace talks using something called the normandy format it brought together germany france ukraine and russia for negotiations on stopping the fighting but as the war has stretched on those efforts have lost steam could this be a chance for

a fresh start. for the gov i'm other say goodbye to her dead son. but. he's one of 4 ukrainian soldiers killed in the east of the country in the 1st week of august. it was the single biggest death toll in the ongoing conflict with pro russian separatists in almost a year the response of ukrainian president brought him as alinsky was immediate he called russian president vladimir putin and begged him to use his influence to stop more ukrainians from being killed but he went to step further and called for a new round of international peace talks. that i would also like to talk to angela merkel in the nearest future even today if there's time and to agree on an emergency meeting we should stop telling each other that the normandy format meeting should take place at sometime this year how many more people will die this year. out of. ukraine's leader supported by

emmanuel france is pushing to revive the talks known as the normandy format as a way of ending the simmering conflict. these came about in 2014 when the leaders of france germany ukraine and russia met on the sidelines of the 70th anniversary of the d.-day landings in normandy france the 4 way discussions helped to seal an agreement between the warring parties in 2015 this reduce the fighting but small scale clashes have continued the result is that since the start of a still a taste an estimated 13000 people have died. hoping to reign in the violence the normandy group might a number of times but the process has been stoled since 2016. now the french president is hoping to oversee efforts to restart the normandy format and to persuade brahimi putin to join the process and resume peace talks.

let's talk about this story now with gustav grethel he's a senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations and acting director of its wider europe program which looks at europe's strategic policies what if eastern neighbors thank you very much for joining us here in our studio what do you think of this meeting of michael hosting vladimir putin doesn't really pave the way for fresh peace talks over have to cease of fresh normandy talks have been in the pipeline for the last month the priority really gonna. happen or will they bring something about. the deep overtures to told which was set on pretty much gives foote an impression that he should have lost the rest west or europeans that the europeans are eager to strike some sort of deal with him. unless you walking or he is about to win which is a bad sign you have to give food in the impression that it will get worse if you

continues to really. i think there are now giving the impression that he cannot sort of a talk or deal on his way which will be an acceptable due to the ukrainians who have basically the same style might continuing so you're saying this is the wrong strategy for you're saying it's at least the wrong will cavaleri to wrap it in discussion of sort of europe leans out euro star so the folks who we have to bring back in we we have as if it was our guild's that there is a war in east ukraine was started by rough. federation has thought of putting. this is this is sort of the impression the kremlin wants to have it the russia is indispensable that he's in his pencil that only if you're opposed to him. and his interests i'm get to his terms there will be peace because that let's be honest the

tough talk the tough words between these 2 sides haven't worked until now so maybe this is the only way to get everyone back at the table. well vitrine france and fulton their. brother bear some tough lines on russian meddling in french domestic affairs as on on ukraine. the tough lines of their all their stump the fighting to stop the war from being a war that was falters tanks and now is basically sitting over there to retest contained the problem is that you can last in the only ended if you introduce a kind of peace making falls the house and expects to come on that the russians are those who block for its new u.n. security council to get them on that for for an executive mission so the prologue am how do you convince putin that he needs to give up his weight what's the

pressure behind it if you use it if start to dial all the roses he he wills nall feeling signed to give way if we look at the fact that this conflict has been going on for 5 years now what has really just not worked when it comes to efforts at bringing peace to this region which it hasn't to to leave implementation to the conflict parties and especially it hasn't worked to have these kind of continued this kind of hang on hands off approach which was the russian position has been comfortable in in taking credit for. and you step further to d.s. to escalation but when it comes to escalation in the escalation usually comes from the separate use the so-called efforts you cite it backs off and so while you know these us and prevent it's used up there of course in the line of command. of the russian army so he isn't

a comfortable position he sort of can be the peacemaker at the same time he's the escalator. here and the responsibilities need to be clear addressed ok well it certainly is rare that western powers invite of law to me a putin for a visit and in a way as you said these are tones expressing perhaps and bringing russia in from the cold i want to play you something that we heard from him i know i'm a call little bit earlier let's listen to that. look at this one as you need to devote that he did use issue depends on the ukrainian crisis in a very simple way to do it on the other hand he could only by also hold out hope that as part of his recomposition of an architecture of security intro situated we can clear up many of the misunderstandings and that have arisen between the european union and russia do people feel this is because i want to pick up on that many misunderstandings i mean there are a lot of tensions we have to talk about you know french accusations of russian interference in the lections the attic station of crimea where do things stand right now between the 2 you have a lot of conflicting issues but we don't have misunderstandings there's no

misunderstanding on crimea it's for the russian. russia thinks it has a legal right to annex countries. and we have a position that we don't think anybody has the right to annex other parts of of those countries it's not a misunderstanding is from sort of teeth different situation and russia on on legal terms has signed up to the treaties and conventions that forbid this kind of frame the same as with russian intervention in french domestic professed. in the direction government says it doesn't do this a they say they don't use triple triple. we have a sort of we not only state that we have we have sort of brought these forwards in the open seat you brought these photos of several trials that are now going on that dying for us and subsurface suspects and your offices and this is not a misunderstanding it's a different world view it's yes it's

a very different both pursuing policies and the thing is we cannot sort of plates 1.5 rulebooks we can say we have this rule we signed up for it. if we don't enforce it's. then basically we we end up with on a q so instead of talking about misunderstandings enough we see to bring together we need to talk about rules and violations and consequence right certainly a lot to talk about we have a g 8 summit that she 7 summit coming up later this week that grethel a senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations thank you for sharing your insights with us thanks. meanwhile there's a debate here in europe over citizens who have gone to syria to fight for the so-called islamic state and how to handle their families germany has now announced it is taking in 4 children born to former islamic state fighters who are german

citizens kurdish authorities have handed the children to a german delegation in syria at the border crossing with iraq after the meeting the children were seen being driven away they have been living in the whole camp in the country's north east which is holding more than $70000.00 women and children it is the 1st time germany has agreed to take an eye of children from syria. and germany's foreign minister heikal masa just say there may be more to follow. this is 04 lish just a few tortured its most welcome that for german children who had been in custody in northern syria were able to leave the country today and will advocate for other children to also be able to leave syria from this group so this essentially concerned small children and their accommodation is anything but optimal and ultimately they cannot be held responsible for their parents' behavior that's why we want to help there. more than 100 children of german parents remain in syria

belgium was one of the 1st european countries to take in orphans of i.a.'s fighters we take a look now at how belgian officials rescued children from a terrible condition a cat a camp in northern syria. children absolutely exhausted starving sick injured children of a war not of their making. and they're stranded here in no man's land with the kurds in northern syria. a refugee camp meant 410000 people now shelters 73000 because no one wants them these people might belong to i.a.s. . but heidi to pile of the belgian children's protection center child focus says that's no excuse for the terrible situation at the camp the courts are very clear that they do not have enough resources to take care of all these

international flooring women and children who at a certain point were members of. isis so that's very clear they also feel that the international. coalition is leaving them a little bit a little behind. after much debate the belgian government decided to send a small group of experts to syria. among them is heidi to power. her assignment to find belgian children in syria to build report with them and then bring them back to their home country. in the end it's 6 out of nearly 50 children orphans. so they are eager to give the children back the only thing is they say a lot of countries are not contacting us are not talking to us so that's one thing and the other thing they say of course a lot of countries. have the you know the demand that only the children

can come back not the model the kurds categorically reject this they don't want to separate mothers from their children and they no longer want to be responsible for these women to have to care for them the kurds had suffered massively at the hands of ins. people who belong to my ass have to live under strict surveillance in a separate area of the camp and with good reason why. the moderate and especially runaway women and children are greatly terrorized by asked loyalists they fear for their lives. i did a mistake i can hear my children right here if i have to sit trying to years in prison and i have to pay for it even the money for that i stand for than i would to go to church years in prison really for life yes psychologic more tests and one

time on the. people in the camp who did not submit to i asked are punished torched and women and children are killed. we have to realize that there is a caliphate developing within the camps in north eastern syria and this is it potential danger for the children who are dare and for the women who turned their back on isis they will come back illegally now out of scope with. possibilities of attacking our society so for safety reasons yes for safety reasons we have to get them back the experts say it's the only way to keep an eye on them. that's it for the day but as always the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at u.w. news or app smuggling and don't forget to use our tag the day i'm seeing some of them to thank you for watching.

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