like i'm pretty anxious of you but i guess it has to work out but that is good. advice dad stay strong don't cry. don't come and then there were no more messages that maybe they really had set off. and made it and then our smuggler of choice contacted me i'm done because when he started this horrible i was really nasty he's well game is the wrong mourning the things he said and there are loads of checkpoints we're having to bribe so many people so we need more money you can write back a 100 times i haven't got any more it happens you know. i build up this unbelievable pressure so what can you do. when you won't go around in

circles going out of your mind. just for these men don't. know how to bring drinking helps you know. that with your complete wreck because you know the next message they send could be. well i think good as it was going to. come in dot and we had them eventually they had me so desperate that i said fine i'm actually going to have to transfer the $8000.00 he won so that they at least stay alive. but they weren't even able to tell me where to wire it to because of the moans i do none the less you realize these guys really have to be nuts and you're just helpless. if was.

it was so tough thought those few days were worse than the 4 years before that. it's difficult to describe because in your mind you're up on the ladder and the news just as above you think this is just too much it's not possible to do because not reach a point where you just can't take it anymore i can't do this to anyone anymore. it would be me it's so bad that you want to give up through and give yourself up it was all because you want an end to this misery with you and i'm no longer alive then ok maybe leo will also die but then my family will have peace. and then that's the point you reach so i actually block out the number i just couldn't go on

and fix the book and fix them for. what i just told myself i wouldn't cry today i was well. it was one of my darkest hours because the message from. the severed contacts knowingly of nora might die. the mental strain from mike and his family back home in pike and it's simply too big. for the next day or the day after i don't remember exactly leo contacted me and it didn't work out we didn't even leave both through this how do you not just keep. all over. in autumn 2018 leonora was still on the run with her husband me what

with the war still raging around them she had a 2nd child maria also born prematurely. at rates artillery and ground offensives had seen islamic state reduced to islamic village. hi dad it's me. we're in the last religious left we're surrounded we're on the only street the islamic state still controls so far as. i do nasal are living on top of each other starving children are freezing to death. more are going to get out there's no future for us here we don't have one single dollar. and seeing as we have absolutely nothing and often have nothing to eat we've decided to give ourselves up. for the soon to be. with the truck and i knew it meant that radio syria was back on the air. after

4 years you build up your own protective armor. it was a voice message from martin limca you know he didn't sound too happy. please talk to the government i'm willing to do anything i was never a soldier i never killed anyone i'm willing to pass on any information i have. no there are trials in germany and i'm willing to help the government is a serious issue and it's important for us that the women and children arrive home in good health. i don't want to stay in a jail here in syria i have no problem going to jail in germany and serving my sentence there. i'm really afraid so. i don't want to get beaten up the whole time i have a heart condition and picked up an ammonia here we're all really sex and. so the same man who tried to ruin your life 4 years ago is suddenly saying poor me.

and please don't tell anyone about this message if someone here finds out that we want to get out we might end up getting killed in the recent so i should have to move you to go. take a long plenty to drink just get out of there and take care of yourself. in any 2900 more than 40000 people in the last enclave i ask surrendered. in germany all mike could do was wait for be a nora to make it out on january 31st 2019 that wait was finally over. hi dad it's me leo just want to say that i've left i yes we're all really happy that we made it. he had was picked up by the americans but all fine they've been really really good to us. even though i got up as usual at 130 quarter to

2 the same as usual check my phone and i saw i'd missed a whole load of calls and once at messages friends had recognized the young woman in this video footage as leonora agency reporters had met her in the desert. and because i was male my old life a long time ago and now i know that it wasn't in the city. of 2 minutes all but i was on my way to work. all week and then it finally went click. can you go back over the last 4 years through their incredible amount of images going through your mind i thought if you have a lot of things you suppressed negative stuff too and you cry a little bit as well of course and it's only then that you realize how much pressure you've been under because it became your daily life so you didn't really

even register at all you do want to suddenly be fired you feel yourself getting lighter and lighter and free and i got out of my car and i thought yes awesome its over. they can't anymore. leonora was detained in this camp a tent city outside al hole in the northern syria together with 70000 others and a fierce debate erupted in germany over whether the country should take back those who'd gone to join i-s. didn't they pose a threat. we returned to syria in march 21000 it had been 4 years since leonora had run away from home i wanted to finally meet her. many many night from her online chats including the ones she last posted you sometimes get the impression that despite how long it's been and how much older she's become she still has this 90 about her and you wonder how that's possible. to

feel even if it's not she's not 19 and she's been through such a loss she's been in a war being bombed out of her home seen all this awful violence and is still so naive and really interesting to see how she is in person that really her just mind off like denying people the food while i was about to make leonora mike in germany was looking forward to his daughter finally returning home although he did have doubts as alice i'm not really sure who i'll be welcoming on. 4 years of bias and propaganda after having looked into this and for that she was really young when she left she was reduced to sure before but she was happy to be seduced kind of from that's also part of the truth through before i got to know. leonora a willing accomplice. had she now realized what she had done to her family and to

people in syria and ultimately to herself too i wanted to know everything including what it was that made islamic state so appealing to. islam modern zone and that. one was sort of in a lot of people in germany are converting to islam and britain to. face i ended up in this facebook group i was young i guess and i wanted a bit of revolution i wasn't take stream stuff. maybe i was a coward because i ran away from home and thought this is the way to solve all my problems in one go i love my father. she told us she had distanced herself from i as a long time ago but how did she feel about the things she had done had she really thought about the past 4 years had she confronted her deeds. everything changed their marriage was in the same life in general in syria was not for me i was no longer happy with my life. there were also

a lot of problems within the family there and i just wanted to go home and i when that failed things got worse because i understood that i now had to live there whether i wanted to or not. and because i try to escape once my own husband knew it too. this is her husband me her w.r.c. a born martin lemon. german prosecutors are preparing a case against him and issued an arrest warrant. when we met it seems he was hoping for a pity and for what i am folk markovitch from germany. it's tough you're under a huge mental strain i mean a one man so i don't see or hear anything. he told us he only worked in the technical department of i s intelligence but he never fought never murdered or

tortured anyone nor ordered anyone to he insisted he was merely a peripheral figure despite having had a slave why did you buy a slave. don't be talking without my lawyer. but i haven't done anything bad and. she was in very poor health and we helped her but i never talked to her. about it why did you buy a human being with 2 children and it is often the thing is she was doing really badly. and in islam you're rewarded for treating a slave well because leaders have rights. and going to understand he said the question. is this woman was really ill but as i said we helped her where we could. and i had no other intentions i already had a big family of course if we wanted to make money by her cheap fatten her.

look if you want to provoke me no that's not true no no i don't need that money just. bought her an order to trade her. we had money problems all the time. so martin bought her to make money. not only to make some money but he said that in her up nurse her have her take a shower and give her kids food make sure that she puts on weight so she's worth something. like that in the car right must. leonora's account incriminated her husband but what about her own row german prosecutors are looking into pressing charges against leonora who's now 19 like her husband she suspected of having spied for islamic state intelligence and having supported a terrorist organization. did you ever work with the secret police passed on information to your husband. i heard that too it's just ridiculous.

whether she committed a crime will be decided in the german courts in the eyes of her father she needs to face up to her moral responsibility for having joined a terrorist group. the 3rd was that she's not only some little girl who was groomed . she's just as much a perpetrator you just have to face the reality of it is the 3rd one of leonora seemed carefree as she talked is she naive or traumatized it was hard to tell she doesn't seem to have reflected on how her family were fairing kurdish intelligence officers then told us our time was up. thank you for coming thanks. leonora gave interviews to other reporters as well and recited passages from the. oran. it seems she gave little phone to what impression this would make on people back home in her village. most

people say she's fully veiled and singing muslim songs although it's not a song so this. has learned nothing b. doesn't belong here and see she's dangerous. perhaps it would be more prudent for leonora to stay in a neighboring village away from the media frenzy expected to descend on pride. and there indeed appears to be a solution mike and cloudier done from the berlin counseling center met pastor marcus bloomer who's a friend of mike. who thought it was. a look. take a little look around the place all well that's great the pastor knows how people in the area fink and he has experience dealing with individuals whose lives have gone through dramatic changes. the 1st thing we want is for them to have contact with

their families and been the one to find me a paul wellstone and to give leonora a place where she'll feel at home and safe with her children while still being independent. the german government still has to decide if and when leonora may come home. will see. him as an off child and if she does have to go to jail dungeon for a reason. often she's definitely going for a beer and a schnitzel with me like an oath of allegiance. and. kick off. the only way seems to come down to the same suit by a munich and. by a stranger comes 7 times on the kremlin time as champion beyond to bring the german

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you can always get the latest on our web site d w dot com or follow us on twitter at a news. a of all took effect today in the u.k. that prevents the country from crashing out of the european union next month a no 2 and no deal breaks it it's parliament's way of putting the brakes on prime minister boris johnson's breaks it plans and it's not only westminster today the irish prime minister told johnson that leaving the european union with no deal is a nonstarter johnson appeared to hear the message we don't know tonight if he was really listening i'm burned off in berlin this is the day. i am ready to listen to any constructive ways in which we can achieve our great goals to solve the current impasse i think that want everybody in the whole of the

e.u. including in dublin can see is that. discussions have been going on to lower the locks the kind of to live up to and i know you understand this is a great place of the beagle guarantee with the promise that we need to find a way of ensuring that the u.k. is don't get in the in the backstop arrangement so there is a way out will be the case in the absence of the greek alternative arrangements and no backstop is no deal for us. also coming up is he too old for the job democrats are questioning the men told by taliban have joe biden after a string of gaffes and yet he remains without question the front runner to take on donald trump in 2020. you know knowing your bar of this election is different than any you've ever faced this president has the deepest darkest forces in this

nation. well to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the shout before the silence from inside the parliament of brags that britain today at legislation became wall designed to prevent the u.k. from crashing out of the european union at the end of next month and it's also designed to rein in the prime minister boris johnson the no no deal breaks that law is one of the last parliamentary checks on the prime minister's power before the prime minister wields his own power over parliament beginning tonight sports johnson is suspending westminster a forced a leave of parliament known as prorogue for 5 weeks it's legal but many in parliament say it's dirty the u.k. is scheduled to leave the e.u. on october 31st one of its most important geo political acts ever now you would

think that this is the time for parliament to be working overtime but not boris johnson he'll now have 5 weeks free of parliamentary pressure time he says that he needs to keep his promise of leaving the e.u. on october 31st deal or no deal if he breaks the wall that took effect today the prime minister could end up in prison in the eyes of the opposition silencing parliament tonight is crime enough on these disgraceful parliament should be sitting impala much we hold in government to account when the prime minister appears to be wanting to run away from questions we are in extraordinary times when you have a prime minister saying he doesn't want to abide by what is a clear decision of a democratically elected parliament that he's prepared to countenance plunging many people's lives in a complete chaos but we will do everything we can to prevent the crushing apps on the say 1st of october and we'll support from the election when that is clear that

we're not doing that crushing out we all want an election we all want to avoid a question out. there are there was labor leader german corben there will today during that final session of parliament the man who presides over it all the man whose guttural calls to order have made him a global star or that man he called it quits john bercow speaker of the house of commons said that he will step down by october 31st and he offered a strong defense of parliament's place and power in a democracy. throughout my time. as. i have sought to increase the relative all thought to see all of these soon legislature. for which i want to make absolutely no apology anyone. anywhere

at any time. to do wrong i. say perhaps dangerous phrase. i have only. sought to be. in the back. backstop. we degrade this poem and. not us our peril. all right i'm joined tonight here at the big table by germany's former ambassador to the u.k. a man who knows a thing or 2 about what's going on inside westminster mr thomas and to say he is currently a senior advisor at the consultancy flint in london ambassador it's good to have you on the day you know there are concerns in the u.k. and here in germany as well that the prime minister will defy parliament's will that he will break

a wall to make breaks it happen on october 31st are you worried. well you know i think it was mark twain have said the dictions always difficult especially when the future is from cern especially when boris johnson is concerned. don't know i don't think i don't think he'll go as far as openly break the law but as you said he's pretty much fenced in i think he has 2 other options one option would be to go to brussels to the european summit and come up with some sort of changes in the political ticker ration and try to sell it back home as a major as a major result change to the deal. well the deal is that to pop nights not the legal pot but the political rationing i don't think that's going to happen because he is he has chosen a cabinet a pretty tough complex it is and the last option would be to get in touch let's say

with some friendly heads of government of the $27.00 to persuade them to put in a veto so that he could come back ok a extension was not possible which friendly heads of state are you talking about well i don't want to black mouth anyone but he feels that he is pretty close let's for instance of the polish government but don't forget the french already made some great difficulties the last time around the french foreign minister yes that is that we are really we really. are out of oil we have fed up so but i think on the macro the voice of reason will be able to swing the money do you really do you think there's a possibility that the poles would would say we're we're going to blackmail this. and that's it doesn't that would be a big it was a very big says i honestly doubt it and i think i think the he practically has no other option then joey tombo pyatt to os the heads of state and government

for an extension and then of course immediately calling the election in the hope to keep his fingers crossed that you might win the election and then of course he can repeal all the laws and the fact that it's even suggested that a british prime minister would break the law that something in itself last week johnson said that he would rather be dead in a ditch then to ask for a break to delay. the law that took effect today he has called a surrender document i mean these are war terms terms as were language do you see boris johnson trying to turn the european union into an enemy sure u.k. oh it has started quite some time ago knocked up with blood drawn some but but the munich rop another us to portray the e.u. as a sort of prison where the make a very very tough for you to get out so the blame game has already started now and

i think this is what this british government abortions particular was aiming at at the moment so i think the e.u. 27 of very well advised not to walk into that trap but to keep the tone low to refrain from fully makes and not to stop this escalating war of words because in the end. it will make the situation much worse for both sides you mentioned the voice of reason being the german chancellor angela merkel we know the bush onsen he visited her right here in berlin last month and since then he has repeatedly mentioned the name until americal as proof that breaks it you know that breaks that deal can be struck before october 31st he even mentioned heard today in ireland take a listen what does that. i think we have really the ideal amount of time in which to get this kind of thing done and give them a call center i think she said it should be a 30 is 30 days would be enough that he is was that he would go on but that he is

we didn't contribute much 30 days to be enough she said and i think she's taking it right if we really focus i think that we can make a huge amount of progress of a 40 and slip there with the 30 years in a $130.00 days at the but what do you say ambassador i mean is is johnson is he reading on the american correctly no he's not being and he knows that is not reading or correct if what i'm going to try to do is she try to be polite and say look it's not about the timeframe we've been doing this for 2 years it's about the substance and she just picked the figure out of as had 30 days but that of course was used by him the next day and by the way also by a lot of british media and you had better say she now set 30 days this is going to hammer i think it was just a polite as well and it also shows the view from the u.k. when you when they're looking at the e.u. that until a miracle.