this is the only news live from berlin president joe biden declares that america is back on the world stage biden delivers his 1st foreign policy address announcing a reversal of trump's america 1st agenda evolves to end support for the war in yemen and holds the withdrawal of troops from germany also on the show guilty of crimes against humanity at the verdict delivered against a former rebel commander from uganda the lord's resistance army commander dominic on when now faces a life in prison. they protested in moscow and now they're paying the price we

speak to friends and relatives of those arrested in protest against the sentencing of kremlin critic alexina fahmy this week. i'm told me a lot of oh it's good to have you with us u.s. president joe biden has outlined his vision for u.s. foreign policy declaring america is back diplomacy is back in his 1st foreign policy speech since been sworn in biden sought to reassert u.s. global leadership rebuild alliances and reverse donald trump's america 1st agenda speaking at the state department biden said the long running war in yemen must come to an end adding that the u.s. will not support saudi arabia's military offensive in the country the president also announced a halt in the withdrawal. to the withdrawal of troops thousands of u.s.

troops from germany. sector defense secretary austin will be leading a global posture review of our forces so that our military footprint is appropriately aligned with our foreign policy and national security priorities it will be coordinated across all elements of our national security was secretary austin and secretary blinken working in close cooperation and while this review is taking place will be stopping any plan trooper drawls from germany. let's bring in correspondent all of assad from in washington all of a good to see you the u.s. president joe biden has announced a freeze on troop deployment a redeployment for all the from germany how significant is that. well tell me germany has been a very important nato partner of the united states' role in the last decades and

the u.s. currently has some 36000 troops stationed in germany now donald trump's plan was to pull out one 3rd off this troop size that would have meant of certainly a big blow for transatlantic relations it was then understood as an act of revenge for a shortage of military spending that was in the eyes of the germy did not spend enough in its military budget really so that low was considered so big that it was even blocked by u.s. congress in a rare bipartisan part of the move at the time the concern was it was not in the national interest to pull those u.s. troops out from germany now and therefore biden's move does not come as a big surprise and you heard him just speak in the sound but called on his secretary of defense lloyd austin to analyze all global troop deployments and in the end that will mean it's very unlikely that this plan will succeed so the troops

will stay in germany very likely that's a strong signal for transatlantic partnership budget joe biden will certainly also continue to ask for more money from its european partners and in that sense continue the line of donald trump his predecessor and what else did biden focus on in his speech. well he said america is beck diplomacy is spec so we're certainly witnessing a big major shift here in foreign policy he called for an end of the war in yemen said that the u.s. would stop supporting the saudi let offensive there he called on a russian president vladimir putin to free election of all need to respect human rights so really a tougher stance here on russia he already entered the paris climate agreement on day one of his presidency so we are looking at a return of multilateralism and a strengthening of the old to the transatlantic partnership and quickly live what

foreign policy challenges await joe biden well there's of course many that wait for him china for one trade practices there russia behaving like a u.s. averse to rerun the u.s. wants 3 and to the nuclear deal also america's role in the world has to be reassessed of course but there is one point that joe biden made in his speech in that every action he takes abroad he wants to keep the american middle class in mind of course there are the more the wants suffering the most from the ongoing pandemic and the economic crisis in the u.s. ok all of us on it in washington thank you for bringing us up to speed. the international criminal court has convicted a former rebel commander from uganda of war crimes including multiple murders rape and systematic forced marriages judges in the hague found that dominate on when is a former commander in the lord's resistance army he is the 1st commander to be put

on trial and convicted by the i.c.c. after sentencing he could face life in prison children's drawings of executions mutilations torture making these pictures helps them process what they've been through in northeastern uganda more than $60000.00 children were abducted and then abused as child soldiers or sex slaves to do 'd the more than 100000 ugandans were murdered over the course of around 25 years dominic on one former commander of the lord's resistance army was among those responsible for these crimes that the i.c.c. has now found him guilty of $61.00 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and for the 1st time ever a conviction has been handed down for forced pregnancy forced marriage to a rape sexual slavery and slave meant forced pregnancy and all treaties upon personal dignity but on one himself was once a victim he was

a child soldier and tortured and abused before becoming a perpetrator almost every family in uganda as north has victims to mourn victor ojibwas also abused he now stands up for victims and survivors and was nominated for the nobel peace prize in 2015 it is a good move that is. 'd just. before. by the being the court must now decide on when sentenced but after being found guilty on $61.00 counts dominick on when faces a life sentence. and you know we spoke to james all tello a psychiatric and trauma therapist in uganda he said the verdict was vital for the victims of these crimes to move on with their lives. i think was my truth. a long

time to try to focus on describing traumatic experiences actual violence like the option for conscription but now. it has been achieved because america and we can now focus on those in the problems not a class. officer cannot target but also the consequences of trauma including depression anxiety. actual behavior and the likelihood of life to them so i think now we can point to addressing the actual effects of the trauma which is post-traumatic stress disorder different call because you will be no movement of the person in the booth that's not what i want to. read you can no address actually it's sort of trauma including grief originally. here are some of the other stories making headlines around the world. a belgian court has sentenced in a rainy and diplomat to 20 years in prison for masterminding a 4 old bomb plot

a sad he was who is based in the austrian capital vienna was detained in belgium iran has condemned the sentence in calling it illegal and a violation of international law. u.k. regulators have stripped china's state television channel c.d.n. of its broadcasting license forcing the channel of british media watchdog off calm said it was against u.k. broadcasting law for china's communist party to control the channel beijing has hit back accusing britain's public broadcaster the b.b.c. of imagine inaccurate reporting on covert 19 in china. thousands of people have been arrested across russia this week in massive protests against the imprisonment of kremlin critic and opposition leader alexina vali around 500 of being held at just one detention facility near moscow outside they have friends and relatives wait for news correspondent you're rachet spoke with them. not. who is number 15 in the line of this woman asks she's

one of the volunteers outside of the soccer over detention facility at 2 hour drive from moscow these people have been standing in the freezing cold since of the early morning. they want to help as their friends and relatives people who were arrested to during the protests. some of them are waiting for their sentence some are already serving at. the shame of you that we have collected warm things this is a sweater there's a sublanguage because we don't know if our friends in there have anything to cover up with little see but they're in subs underwear t. shirts and wore gloves just in case all of this is awful but even cried a few times my friends are in there. looking back. more than 7000 people have been arrested across russia in the past 10 days. the police were

particularly brutal during the last protests in moscow and st petersburg on the weekend and after alex enough illness sentence some time security forces dragged people into police buses for no reason some of them why random passers by several cases are now being investigated the police. authorities argue that the protests were not authorized and therefore posed a security threat in reality however the police officers themselves have at times become a security threat to some you know sent by. these young people say they spent up to 12 our loss as a courthouse after being detained apparently they had to sleep on the floor they were sentenced to several days in prison but since prison space seems to be running out they have had to wait for hours in the police bus. it's stuffy one young man

explains he says he spent 7 hours in here so far. it's now afternoon in front of the detention center the queue has barely moved. they also take their time accepting the packages and are searching each one carefully at the cup with a missile because this is all so surreal we don't know what all this will lead to but we want to continue fighting for our rights and our freedom it was fortunate that given my guests of course we're also scared but many people want to keep fighting for their future on the streets you want to finish the bottle satish. more than 500 people are said to be in detention behind to these fans and to more young people are expected to arrive here from moscow courts especially if the protests continue. next time you check into a hotel you can perhaps expect a robotic reception

a guest house in johannesburg has embraced a new technology that makes for more coronavirus friendly welcome. what time is britain to say. i cannot thruster on tuesday. night the mid week when i'm going and there are 123 humanoid robots in johannesburg hotel sky they can do more than just answer gas questions they can also carry luggage and deliver room service they sort of how about with the smaller things where people need smaller things and we stuff would really be running up to 4 floors to deliver meal or delivering 2 meals now we've got the facility where they can control their own. and they can also have the jackboot answering questions that we have usually taken advantage robots are finding their way into new roles in rich countries but they are rare in developing nations at this hotel guests and staff are happy about the addition to hotel manager says. it just creates such

a nice vibe and excitement for their stuff in the stuff they have. inside. that unity to you to be part of this journey being the innovators inside if you give us fatality rate. the manager insists that his goal is not to replace staff in a country where nearly a 3rd of the workforce is unemployed. he believes he will watch could help keep hotels open even during strict lock downs and help save jobs. to sport now and liverpool have been banned from entering germany to play their champions league quarter final because of new restrictions to stop the spread of the coronavirus variants the reds play in live on february 16th the german interior ministry has come found that an application by the bundesliga side for special permission for livable to enter the country was refused by federal police

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reign of terror and i'll be talking to one of them. hello i'm christine one to it's good to have your company a former kamandi in the notorious ugandan rebel group holds resistance army has been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the international criminal court dominate unwin was found guilty of $61.00 charges over a reign of terror in the 2000 his crimes include murder rape sexual enslavement and the conscription of child soldiers he had denied all the charges in some branded to u.s. special forces who were hunting and always found in $82015.00 he will be sentenced at a later date he faces a maximum punishment off life imprisonment. you have noticed that this is dominick on where from this trial has been years in the making with thousands of witnesses

providing testimony us on when was a senior commander in joseph's kearney's lord's resistance army after having been abducted himself by the group in his youth tony founded the group in 1988 amid widespread ethnic fighting in uganda. the group committed rape mutilation torture and murder as it moved across uganda the democratic republic of congo the central african republic as well as south sudan the international criminal court also heard hours of recordings of commanders ordering atrocities. by laura leader joseph coney is still at large but the group is just a shadow of its former self now trial has been a chance for victims to confront an ongoing trauma the effects of which are still

felt today. and my 1st guest today is a former child soldier in the n.r.a. and has since become an activist in a sense a poignant joins me from here in germany welcome to date everything is africa in a sense i just want to begin by asking you how you were recruited by the lord's resistance army yeah thank you so much it wasn't me. i was that it like did it to a lot of people in northern uganda to come in the middle of the night with you at gunpoint to join the man. so i was force at gunpoint with my shovel to move to walk with them the same as my dad the same night it was adopted as a moment that was adopted unfortunate if we nick wouldn't make it and was killed us tonight i was forced to move with them to suss it out where i joined the rest of the chancellor the other so yes i did but i am. in a somewhat became of the man. tell us about some of the atrocities that you saw in

your time with the n.r.a. . or your nightmare as everything you can imagine happened within the n.r.a. it comes from people being stepped on desk in atlanta with a sword yes standing on one child they all want their sword it would be so they didn't mob the dice to live bullets in battle for us or kind of beating up punish men when they find you listening to revues and on this keyboard costing program so that day what was i sure you were going to ask if you listen to these programs so it was really almost every kind of punishment you find. but it was that were that it was our day they saw many young ghosts that we were forced as jess or the us to adopt and that it was true and used as that with the wife's. and domenic own way and he's just been convicted at the hague for crimes he committed as as commodity

off the n.r.a. how would you like to see the justice system deal with people like him. you know i would i would be an evil create if i tell you that i would judge you must be because i want to was just sort of myself and the community when company bought it in judge me. i don't think what dominic was abducted at the age of 14 as i know. was in for the war that it was a dinner in the stomach and heat it was was i mean this is weird so that is a point where feet get the point where i would say he deserves forgiveness the same honesty that i was give them when they portray the grew up it grew bored and at deputy to escape. but instead of escaping the choice to lead the sort of yes the n.r.a. one must must i am defending cops like image related to the way to keep it a future right one night. and inequality you got

a ticket in 2004 to keep 69 people in one night in depressed times using much it bumming a life in the rest apps and overnight of captivity and that is what it is when they keep it up or people write in a sense what have you done to cope with your pasta. i skip the n.r.a. war i joined it way beyond rehabilitation center well because i didn't like it because i was forced to go there and that i was the most important thing that happened in my life because today we have the additional sat that was started by your knife the meaning of forgiving and moving forward the fact that it was to do more in my life and since then i boiled not keep quiet not to speak with eventually that was the event it was that they don't understand and that's why i've grown strong to be an activist but it was less most of the children in war yes so what helped me moss was sharing with people coming out yet in the past that i you know

want to physically and not just getting into reality i'm making peace with my and through not i realize yes some people judge me when i started doing it and some people very sort of for me but both of them were not what i was seeking for i was seeking for was that speech will be seen where i get one point out say describe him and i have to be where they might actually make sure it doesn't happen to him not at. all right that is in a central point he's a former child soldier who's now in gates an ex of his and as he's been telling us we appreciate you coming on to the program thank you in a sense you're gonna thank you. now when paid to not guilty his defense that he himself was a victim because he had been abducted by the military systems army as a young boy and suffered psychological damage as a result the judges rejects of this defense this have innocent the presiding judge

schmidt the overwhelming evidence paints a picture of the only going as a person in full possession of his mental abilities he's described by his subordinates as an extremely capable fighter and commander whom they love to follow . he planned to his attacks carefully and assess the risks together with his officers the evidence also shows that the league on one was not in a situation of complete subordination these are the sorts of corny but frequently acted independently and even contested orders received from joseph kony he was not a puppet on a string i'm now joined by henri and nicol he is a human rights watch africa research based in iraq welcome to the program it's great to have you here what do you make off the judge's dismissing dominic own when

stephens that he himself was a victim because he was once a child soldier well what i took from that was an. idea that. she the evidence that was presented during the trial that he was on when i was very calculating and may not citizens that he should be held accountable for to commit some of the pieces that is brigade and he himself individual individually committed. my interpretation was that one so much about him being. formally abducted himself what about the fact that he made those decisions as an adult who had was fully aware of what was going on. right i mean we have to point out that this is the 1st time that the crime of forced pregnancy is considered by the i.c.c. how significant is that. i think it's very significant because it takes cognizance

of the impact of sexual and gender based violence in conflicts and that was one of . the big factors of what they did during the 20 years in which the the conflict raged we heard innocent talking about girls as young as 12 being forced into marriage and forced to have children and this is something that really characterize that one it's obviously hugely important that people be held account to account for those kinds of crimes. the the founder of the lord's resistance army joseph cohen he remains at large dominick and when is really the only one to have been convicted in a court of law would just say that justice is far from being served i think justice as far as the conflict in northern uganda is concerned is very complex thing many different dimensions to it criminal liability is one

aspect of it but there's also questions of reparations on truthtelling of army conciliation which these are really important facets of the culture of the of not then of the people of northern uganda and all of some of those things haven't been addressed and of which it is the responsibility of the ugandan government really to provide for so 'd i would say this is a very significant step towards achieving some aspect of justice but it's it's in no way i think. in possession of the full spectrum of what justice can and should be for the terms of of that war all right that is or am miracle here is human rights watch africa researcher coming to us from nairobi appreciate you being on the program thank you so much thanks. and that is a for now be sure to check out of the stories on dot com forward slash africa we're

also on facebook and on twitter today will need be with pictures of innocent of war no he's the child soldier who ran away from the lord's resistance army and he's invasion activism today he has one name that is to prevent what happened to him ever happening to another child will see an extra life.

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drama series continues in the only besos are available online of course you can share and discuss on t.w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighters tune in now . wall street regulators look at the game stop trading frenzy but did amateur traders really do anything wrong we'll talk to our financial correspondent and we'll look at how game stop and other targeted stocks are fairing. also on the show germany's top lender posts its 1st annual profit in 6 years look at where the deutsch of bach is finally emerging from its hard times and then another german bank still firmly stuck in the. tens of thousands of checks workers cross into germany every day now

the penn demick is adding new scrutiny to their commute. look welcome to the show i'm seeing beers in berlin it's good to have you with us u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen was set to meet financial regulators thursday to discuss the game stop trading frenzy yellen has said that she wants to deeply understand the surge that's when shares in the videogame retailer skyrocketed more than 1600 percent last week as users of a reddit for a banded together to drive the stock higher the resulting short squeeze left hedge funds that had bet against the stock with huge losses and it spurred complaints of stock manipulation game stop shares lost more than 40 percent on thursday. let's go to our financial correspondent in new york. good to see you does this meeting involving yellen these financial regulators does that suggest that these traders have done something wrong we don't know that sexually what janet

yellen and a lot of other high ranking people from the oversight boards and to regulators try to figure out and you already mentioned it engendered yellen in an interview before this meeting said it quite quite clearly we have to understand the whole thing deeply and then we can make decisions by the way there are more panel some more committees to follow so we won't see any decision anytime soon there was a separate report by the way by bloomberg that the f.c.c. so the cubana securities and exchange commission is also having a deeper look if if there are any fraudulent activities was the shows for the media posts and i guess we also have to understand who was clearly behind it so. so no fraudulent activity peter took missing a trader from the reporter it's all but to generate yellen and her colleagues there will figure that out as well. colleagues there one other question is this game stop

hype is it really over we've seen that they've lost today pretty considerably it well i mean it might be over for game stop at this point and i mean if you see what happened here on thursday the stock was down another good to 40 percent the stock nawas down at around 50 bucks a share just 12 weeks ago at game stop trading at around 400 but that does not mean that this whole movement is over that we won't see other companies other commodities for instance being targeted by those a trader so i would definitely not say at this point that the hype and the party is done and over with but maybe for a game stop that might be a game for at this point. financial correspondent in new york thank you. earlier today i spoke with evan keegan he's one of the amateur traders who bought and later sold game stop shares i asked him what motivated his trading decisions

you know for me i saw this really purely like i said as what it as really what it was as the opportunity for a short squeeze an opportunity to make out to make money quickly you know for me it was less so and i know for a lot of people it's sort of this opportunity it's a quote unquote stick it to wall street you know and and certainly there are there are conversations important conversations about that need to be had. you know about how the how hedge funds work how people are investing and democratizing investing things like that that are that are important conversation but i think for me it really was exactly you know what i said it really was just a short squeeze out which to do that i took advantage of. all right i think you can there he was one of those amateur traders behind that game stop search let's take a look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. brazilian mining giant valley has agreed to pay $7000000000.00 in damages over the collapse of

a mining waste dam that unleashed a flood of toxic sludge in 2019 killing $270.00 people vali said it would provide what it called socio economic and socio environmental reparations to affected families. thousands of workers in french cities including paris took to the streets thursday to demand higher wages and more job protection picking up from a wave of protest in january many sectors have suffered closures and lock downs since the start of the pandemic prompted prompting calls for greater state support . or plans to split itself into the stood guard automaker says it will spin off its truck and bus operations into a new company to be listed on the frankfurt stock exchange remaining business will house its car operations and be renamed or say he spends on speaking of german companies if the news deutsche of bond investors have long been waiting to hear germany's top lender ended a year with profit propelled by

a strong performance from its investment side and low credit losses the question now whether that performance is a pandemic year one off or the result of his recent recent overhauls as a city on the lockdown frankfurt had hoped for some good news but its major banks have delivered mixed messages this result season one of the bright spots its $113000000.00 euro net profit for the year 2020 is a sign of light at the end of the tunnel after years of struggling with failing divisions litigation and. well i think there's a windfall gain from the pens as well so all the client have to restructure the financing situation in much need for capital a lot of transactions and loans they need there over to mr jastrow response fall into situation and all this is good for the larger budget because they come provided full service argument on that. if you are pandemic or loans are going sour

than expected that's good news for the bank the outbreak of the pandemic may even help a bank to cut costs many off its employees are working from home the trend the bank wants to keep up well they have cuts loss of costs they have really been quite successful in their investment banking units and with the ongoing volatility on the financial markets with high trading volumes it's likely that investment banking will remain. pretty profitable for deutsche bank for quite a while the outlook for. germany's 2nd biggest lender is not as rosy the bank is said to cut $10000.00 jobs about 20 percent of the workforce no wonder that in an internal survey of core employees only 20 percent say they're optimistic about their future. every day tens of thousands of people from the czech republic cross

the border into germany for work many of them are employed in industry or in the health care hospitality sectors coronavirus research and so are making the crossing a bit more complicated. 7 in the morning in fulton violet on the german border. is on his way to work in germany to enter the country he has to show a negative corona virus test every 48 hours his appointments are made online the tests done in a former customs house were not allowed to film inside. there a doctor takes a nasal sample to see if year e. is dealing with a corona virus infection. after a 20 minute wait relief comes in the form of a text message on his phone. i open it up and say i'm negative now i can get into germany. the czech republic has much higher corona

virus infection rates than germany the rapid tests for commuters are aimed at keeping the border open and lowering infections. 10 minutes later yuri burma is at work in the printed circuit plant of his employer deltec. a qualified electrician is responsible for several production lines which make printed circuit boards for the auto industry. his wife and their 2 small children live in the czech republic a mere 15 minutes away from the plant. but he still doesn't feel like relocating to germany. i've bought a house there i've got mortgages and needs renovating the situation is too difficult to stay in germany right now it's not. over 2 thirds of the company's staff commute to work from the czech republic deltec couldn't function

without them. most of them are well trained in electronics. and we're grateful we can employ people like bees. $4500.00 cross border commuters come to the district of. many of the highly qualified specialists who are in high demand the district chief administrator wants to keep the border open for commuters otherwise a lot of local businesses would go bankrupt that's why the state of bavaria is paying for the tests. they pay their income taxes here painter our social security systems. and that's what justifies the free state of bavaria to pay $18.00 euro's for a fast and teaching test just 18 euro's it's the same thing we do for the local german population as well. with almost 25000 commuters in the area alone that adds up to quite a sum of closing the border don't be far more expensive and the tests don't bother

you really burma too much he just doesn't want to lose his job pays him a 3rd more than he done back across the border. and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following. secretary janet yellen was set to meet with financial market regulators to discuss the game stop trading frenzy shares in the videogame retailer skyrocketed more than 1600 percent last week as users of a reddit for abandoned together to drive the stock higher prompting allegations of market manipulation now the stock is on a downward trajectory losing more than 30 percent thursday. germany's top lender georgia bank in the 2020 with a 113000000 euro net profit propelled by a strong performance from its investment side and low credit losses but analysts question whether that performance is a pandemic year anomaly or the results of its recent overhauls.

that's it for me and the business team here you find out more about these and other business stories online dot com slash business also check us out on facebook and twitter i'm seriously as always. sleep. carefully. to soon be sure to take you. to discover who.

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