this is d w news live from berlin more than 50 people die in a stampede at the funeral of the iranian general killed by a us drone attack the stampede occurred as huge crowds of mourners gathered for the funeral procession it mends that the burial of cousins the many had to be postponed also coming up tonight france marks the 5th anniversary of the attack on these

suits here magazine charlie hebdo it was the 1st in a series of terrorist attacks in france and provoked a massive security response and a court in malta rules in favor of the ship's captain who rescued bikers in the mediterranean we'll talk to the captain asked what the ruling means for his great rescue mission. i'm off it's good to have you with us the stampede at the funeral of the assassinated iranian general concepts and the money has claimed at least 56 lives that's according to iran's state media more than 200 people have been injured huge crowds gathered today in his hometown to pay their last respects to the general the

general was killed on friday in a u.s. drone strike after days of ceremonies in perceptions the burial of so money had to be postponed. they were here to say good bye to a military command they called their own 7 instead they lost their own lives caught up in a stampede as hundreds of thousands of mourners descended on cameron. parish her yard this is the home town of kasim saloon my any the general killed by a u.s. military drone last friday. to me after a 3 day state funeral procession his journey has come to an end but for iranians their anger over the killing of the national hero lives on. was shouting death to america iranian lawmaker has have been

quick to pass a law declaring those involved in selling my niece death as terrorists. i mean they're all men all those involved in this crime who are with the pentagon and the u.s. military are counted as terrorists however in washington there was no backing down in the event the ready to make another bad choice that the president responded aware that if he did last week which was decisive serious and message to iran about the constraints that we are going to place on that regime so that it doesn't continue to put american lives at risk more u.s. troops already on their way to the middle east but tensions with iran have also thrown the u.s. military presence in iraq into question there was confusion after a leaks letter from the u.s. defense department appear to suggest an imminent withdrawal of american troops from iraq the pentagon says the unsigned letter was a draft and

a mistake and there was no decision to leave the country. the white house says that in life celine mind he was considered a danger to america in death many and now wondering whether he has become an even greater threat. over more now i'm joined by hussein but he's an iran expert and this is a professor at indiana university joins me tonight from indianapolis presence good to see you again let's talk about these these images that we've been seeing all day these huge crowds gathering for the funeral and now the stampede people being killed what kind of person what kind of general what kind of hero are the iranians now mourning because outside of iran when people see this a lot of people are shocked. yes i think the crowd sizes have been incredibly impressive and beyond imagination i think even leaders of the

regime just a couple of weeks ago it's remarkable that we see this massive ship mood from protests against the regime to now people pouring on the streets and support and mourning of the general and i think that represents only moneys. those legenda someone who was safeguarding iranian national interests and the region but i think more importantly as a gesture of grievance. against the extrajudicial killing of a military personnel by the united states. and the are still talking about what could happen as a result of this killing and the and but it being completely unpredictable iran has more and the united states to prepare for a dark day of revenge. can't do we dare venture what that could look like what possible scenarios do you see. we can't and i'm not sure that even if

they themselves know yet but. i think they are in a period of grief and mourning and the outrage. that is being displayed now publicly i think is also in response to the details that are coming out of washington about just what a messy process this engine to kill soleimani was and i think the iranian rank and file would like to demonstrate to the world that they have been wronged once again by the united states against what they see as international law and and it like now act of the russian not just against. shadow we militia in iraq but against the official military of a sovereign nation today the u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe held

a press conference and reporters asked him to provide more information about this intelligence on that alleged imminent attack by iran that that's being thrown out there to justify the drone attack but he didn't give us much i mean his in his answer was basically you know you must be kidding and we all know what the general was was really doing when he was killed i mean what does it tell you do knows what the general was doing the i mean do you believe the u.s. secretary of state when he says that. you know it's hard to believe and i mean the administration has basically directly contradicted its its own justifications immediately after the attack took place which was that they had credible intelligence that an imminent attack. was to be carried out isolate mani or under his orders and now they're saying that there was no such imminent attack

coming and there was no great intelligence but that this was essentially. a preemptive move against someone that they have had a long list of grievances for stretching back to the last 20 years so the message coming out of washington is one of incoherence contradiction and increasingly erratic and rash expressions that really defy logic thruster of the sit in but not an iran expert joining us tonight from indianapolis indiana university professor as always we appreciate your insights thank you my pleasure or earlier my colleagues i mean political correspondents i mean young spoke with the german opposition parliamentarian no reporter about calls to remove all german troops from iraq hears that conversation. there was

a clear message given by the parliament a few rock which is. that we are not welcome anymore this is why i think we should get out of the whole mission there is no security there for our soldiers there is no political will for us for real security sector reform in iraq which is needed badly needed but i think this moment it's for for now it's over and so do you think the troops who remain in iraq will be safe i don't think that there is security situation there is good enough for our. boys to stay the iraq they should be withdrawn and a political message of the iraqi parliament is absolutely clear you have to go. if the europeans and the americans pull back their troops from iraq that will leave the country completely in the hands of the iranians is that a good idea the country already is in the entire hand if the iranians this is very sad but true and what happened on last friday even had the iranians we see that all

of those people all of the religious leaders who are trying to push back iranian influence they're now signing up saying now it's time for giving to us for showing resistance against the americans this is a moment when the iranians have won the last iraq to the iranians for now this is not the right moment to go with 22 soldiers this is a question for politics to find a way to come back but this is not about our soldiers to sit there without any and the possibility to to fulfill their mission you've also called for more diplomacy now chancellor merkel is going to moscow at the weekend what do you think she can achieve mr putin was one of the 1st ones to show his son his condolences to the 2 to iran after soleimani was killed it means that they are. sticking together and it means that he. thinks he has some influence or he should show it now and try to

push the iranians not to overreact and not to go for 4 way in which would be the next step of an escalation in the whole middle east and finally do you see any life left at all in the iran nuclear deal. the nuclear deal is that when we give it up there is no other obstacles for iran to to get to the bomb in a fast way so you have to do whatever we can what we miss for the last 18 months to do was are europeans to try to save the deal if the. situation in the middle east is nuclearized everything got to get worse i mean north of thank you very much . here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world russia's president vladimir putin has spent orthodox chris. miss a public holiday in russia in syria who did meant syrian president bashar al assad and russian troops it's only the 2nd time that putin has traveled to syria since moscow's military intervention in the country's civil war officially began back in

20154 young children have been shot dead by al shabaab militants in eastern kenya the attack took place in that county near the border with somalia it comes just 2 days after the somali islamist group targeted a military base used by u.s. and kenyan forces the socialist leader of petals on says has been confirmed spanish prime minister after a narrow parliamentary vote his victory was secured when a small regional party agreed to abstain sanchez will now head up a minority left wing government spain's 1st coalition since it made the transition to democracy back in the mid 1970 s. . well it's 5 years to the days since islamist terrorists went on a rampage against journalists at the french city recall magazine charlie hebdo 12 people died in the attack for which al qaida claimed responsibility it was the 1st

in a series of deadly incidents over the next few years committed mostly by french born extremists. remembering the horrific events of 5 years ago. family members and callings of the victims marked the occasion with an emotional ceremony in paris among them some of the magazine staff members who were injured in the attack. on january 7th 2015 in front of charlie endos headquarters in paris. terrorists targeted the magazine after it published caricature is of the prophet mohammed it took less than 2 minutes for them to shoot dead 12 people and injure another 11 this was the 1st of a series of deadly attacks that lasted 2 days. in the aftermath of the killing thousands took to the streets to share their grief world leaders gathered

in paris vowing never to give way to terrorism. the phrase just so we shall eat i am shot became a global sign of solidarity the magazine bankrupt before the attack gain public support around the world. well you know if you look at this line we've been here since as this morning making a political statement. very important to show solidarity for freedom of expression those for the attack was a major blow to press freedom and france but beyond that the killing of shelley of doe's journalists revealed that the country was ill prepared to respond to terrorist threats for the next 2 years france remained in a state of emergency thousands more military personnel and police officers were deployed to tackle terrorism. but more attacks followed including the november 2015 attack on the buttock long concert hall where $130.00 people died. the

following year a nice dozens were killed. both. 5 years later france is still on alert for terror. when the survivors try to keep the memory of the victims. well firefighters in southeastern australia are racing to take advantage of a brief drop in temperatures before another heat wave is expected to hit later this week on tuesday many poles to bid their final respects to. one of at least 25 people killed in the blazes so far the 36 year old volunteer firefighter died along with his colleagues just before christmas when their vehicle was overturned by

a fire tornado. and that scene being repeated all over the country australia's fire tragedy is not even near and and now a wave of misinformation and scams is making the situation even worse my colleague jill dougherty joins us now for more so joe what what's going on what are you seeing on social media there's a blame game going on brenton's the church straight is try to come to terms with who was responsible for this terrible tragedy and unfortunately some of what we're seeing is misinformation so there's a conspiracy meme doing the rounds claiming that environmentalists have purposely been starting these fires to quote perpetuate a fake linkage between the fison climate change and promote green agenda and now police in australia actually have taken action against about 200 people for starting fires during the 5 ban that include some awesome ists and some people who foolishly study campfires but there's no suggestion that is some kind of orchestration political action here so as well as these conspiracy theories we're

also seeing a lot of social media chatter blaming the a straight in green party for allegedly going against fire control that's where firefighters start small fires in order to prevent bigger fires later on now this has been debunked the greens support 5 controlled burns and anyway there are minor party that's never been in power so all of this is just misinformation to divert from the real cause of these bushfires which is the studies on presented a period of. drought and heat last year was the hottest and driest on record and scientists are pretty clear in saying that that has been exacerbated by climate change and we know that the bushfire season has another 2 months before we can we can talk about it nearing an end we know there's been plenty of political point scoring going on but scammers they're also taking advantage of this situation aren't they there was seeing fake donation websites pop up this one about to see here claim to be raising money for the funeral of

a father and son who had died while trying to defend their home from bushfire flames now the family said that they did not authorize this and they reported it to the police a straight these consumer agency is also now issuing warnings about bushfire scams and they've advised people to and the donate to registered charities a well known charities that because many people want to help out in these times of tragedy and as a lot of celebrities who are writing big checks at the moment we have to remember is a very rich country but yet still relies on volunteers to fight fires and to care for its wildlife now this tragedy is causing some of this is not thinking about whether the country has been adequately spending its public finances in the right way to prepare for these kind of crises you know it's a very good point and it's just unbelievable that people would actually put up you know a go fund like that to try to scam people out during tragedies unbelievable joe thank you. it's time to look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines

around the world puerto rico's governor has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes in the u.s. territory the most powerful tremor with a magnitude of 6.4 hit early on tuesday at least one person has been confirmed dead at least 8 others have been injured in west africa opposition protesters have taken to the streets of the capital of guinea for a 2nd consecutive day they're concerned about rumors that president alpha condé plans to amend the constitution to stay in office for a 3rd term. on monday 12 people were injured in clashes between protesters and the president's supporters. austrian politicians of austrian courts and has been sworn in as the country's chancellor returning after 7 months out of power following the collapse of his government his center right people's party is now in a coalition with the green party that is a 1st for austria and the captain of the refugee

rescue ship lifeline has been cleared of charges that he failed to properly register his vessel terrified she helped to save more than $230.00 refugees from the mediterranean in june of 2018 he faced 810000 euro fine in malta over claims that the ship was incorrectly registered but a court has now ruled that he does not have to pay. in june 2018 more than $23050.00 g.'s drifted on a rubber boat off the coast of libya before the lifeline found them the captain wanted to save lives but felt that everywhere he looked obstacles were in his path it's only at multiple refused to allow a ship to dock for days initially in the way people are treated around here makes me want to cry people talk about trauma in mexico and his wall but i have the impression that europe is no better. only after several other e.u. states announced that they would take in some of the migrants didn't open the

harbor. the refugees were finally safe but the lifeline was confiscated and a new on to see began for captain high as he was charged with not properly veges string the lifeline which sailed under a dutch flag an accusation that highish that was absurd. after a court imposed 810000 euro fine in may 2019 launched an appeal now he has finally been vindicated the court and the letter acquitting the captain but a battle isn't over another ship captain by him was seized by italian authorities last september after he had rescued 100 people from the sea separate proceedings underway there. or klaus peter vij the captain of the lifeline a rescue ship joins me now on the line from. following the cords decision captain

it's good to have you on the program you know we've covered your story now since the beginning i remember when it broke so many people were shocked with the charges what does this verdict what does it mean to you. today i think the success that. there could be accepts their appeal and so they don't find me and i think this is very important this is a very important signal also for the other n.g.o.s so. i think it was just to treat me several times because i was 12 times in my car to cut sitting in this or was because a lot of money in those is 3 days of traveling and i'm very happy that we have this recites now do you think that this verdict will mean that we will see more rescue ships in the mediterranean trying to rescue refugees.

i hope so but i think it's a long way up to this the european countries should should make and you should start and you. see risk your mission in the military in the seas until 2015 to tell you it did it with this commission and this is this thing i want to see because we owe only volunteers and we pay always donations from from normal people like you and me and then this is not for volunteers this is so great for professionals we do it in a professional way of course we saved a lot of lives some reasons maybe 10000 but this should be the top for professional seed rescue was pate by the european countries yeah and it's a political debate that still rages on here in europe what about you what is

next for you the captain are you going to be able to continue your rescue missions again soon or you know is this going to be a retirement from that. no i won't be retired by by this series commissions but i have 4 so you talked about this before the case in italy and i would finish all of these things before i start a new mission. and do you see. younger people coming up who want to do the same things that she'd been doing at a new generation of a captains if you will if you want to go out into the mediterranean and try to help refugees. yes i think so but everything is law profession or. no it was was the richest rated or so it's a pleasure craft i think the time of the pleasure craft is this gun maybe but

we will see what this is medicare and eat together with medicines on frontier we're doing with with. the ocean viking in order so cia. is under way with his alone could you ship and i think also the secrets we just take on the scene so there are some risk us but they are 2 less there are a lot of people drawing in the sea you watch more than we know from the number and this is a big problem in this or so. yes it is it is it's a big problem the good news would be if there were no refugees to rescue maybe we'll see that one day captain towns painter right here joining us tonight to talk about the verdict in this case captain thank you. well this is g.w.

news and these are our top stories at least 56 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in a stampede to during the funeral procession of rain in general. the military commander was killed in a u.s. drone strike on friday is burial was delayed because of the stampede. france is commemorating 5 years is since the islamist attack on the satirical magazine charlie 12 people were killed it was the worst of the 1st of a spate of major islamist attacks in france and the so-called islamic state. the socialist leader pedals on chavez has been confirmed spanish prime minister after a narrow parliamentary vote his victory was secured when a small regional party state as well now head of a minority left wing government. the

captain of a migrant rescue ship has successfully appealed his conviction a multiuse court ruled in favor of klaus he survived you have been fined 10000 euros after rescuing more than 230 migrants in the mediterranean was accused of incorrectly registering his vessel this is g w news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter or you can visit our website www dot com. you're watching the w. news i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day to see that.

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