she called them and said that i need to 15 i'll be there in 15 so he said that i clean the house everything is perfect and i'm just waiting for you'll. see out just in minutes late there she i have. she called him and he never responded. i mean to the day but i was so poor going to neighbors armed men had come to take stuff away while father mother and sisters had to flee syria one week later and leave him behind you still don't know anything about what happened to him last time . when i actually survived by leaving syria and not getting killed there maybe i have physically survived somehow but you cannot just get used to the fact that you lost your dad in one second you know you cannot just seems to defy get used to the fact that he just disappeared for nor isn't. worth us fathers one of

130000 people gone missing in syria most of them were disappeared in bashar al assad's prisons where torture is systematic. now the 2 former syrian intelligence officers are going on trial for crimes against humanity there's a glimmer of hope for families like waffles when the trial started wafa sultan amongst a portrait of $61.00 detainees and held a vigil in front of the core times i don't mind myself and i don't mind the whole word every day that my dad was political was against the eugene he only demanded freedom justice and the state of law and for that reason has been disappeared for almost 80 years now and this is not acceptable i'm not going to be silent about that today was for fields home in berlin she could see herself returning to syria and rebuilding the country eventually in the meantime it's important for her to be

in germany at this moment. i think this is the hope of many syrians in very many we are working our best to be accepted part of the decision making regarding syria because you cannot dismiss costs and decide anything about us without us. wafa hopes to reunite with their father one day. chill remind the world of the state of syrian getting. well let's get more on the trial in copeland's now. on highness been following proceedings for us there as we said this is the 1st international trial of state torture conducted by the assad regime in syria tell us about the verdict here and what exactly the defendant has been accused of well the verdict is the accused has being found guilty of crimes against humanity because he has supported the depreciation of liberty and torture in at least 2 cases

but. this case is not just about a is this was made clear by the ruling of actually the ruling is not just over i had to step out here but she took at great length she talked about a system of torture in syria as a system of oppression systems that bashar al assad had installed to keep his iron grip on the country and actually that's what's on trial here today in copeland's what was he sentenced for and for how long. the sentence for yet is 4 and a half years in prison and that means that even though he is being in prison during the trial and pretrial in pretrial treason he will stay in prison and will not walk as a free man out of his called room that is a lot of people been wondering why this trial on state sponsored torture in syria

is taking place in germany why is that. well obviously the best place for a trial like that would be syria itself but that's not possible because so puppa traits is the main perpetrators all still in charge that. comes into play something that we call. international criminal law and universal jurisdiction because of that german crush of shooters and german cults can prosecute crimes even though they have been committed in germany and even doing these it germans are involved either as victims or as close. as it is people who do those crimes. are part of much fun hein reporting in copeland's for us thank you. now to a verdict on another closely watched court case here in germany and

a tourist iraqi preacher known as abu allah has been found guilty of supporting terrorism and being a member of a terrorist organization he was viewed as the leader of the so-called islamic state here in germany was accused of radicalizing and recruiting young people in germany and helping them to travel to iraq and syria has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison the conviction brings an end to a cross with high security. our political correspondent julie of south delhi has been following the latest on this story for us hi julia so how significant is this case. it is an important case and it has been an important trial as you've said it was seen as the point of reference for the islamic state in germany and a very important recruiter across europe he was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison which is quite an important sentencing the prosecution had asked for 11 and a half years and he has been charged and found guilty of being

a member of a terrorist organization of aiding the organization of violent acts and of funding terrorism and his acts have had serious consequences. people that he has recruited and radicalized here in germany have traveled to iraq and syria including 2 twins who traveled to iraq and killed many people in a suicide attack and the case has also been linked with a codefendant of who was said to have how. he is the terrorists who killed 12 people in attacks against a christmas market in berlin in 2006 although there has been no direct connection with. have been part of his network at least this is been a pretty complex trial julie it started 3 and a half years ago i mean how difficult was it to gather evidence against. it has

been hard to find concrete evidence especially looking at the. toughest accusations against and the court case has relied in terms of evidence mostly on the testimony of 2 informants one is a member of the security services. was imbedded in the network and collected evidence over the years and another informant is a former radicalized person who was radicalized by who traveled to syria and once he came back to germany he decided to talk to the security forces and tell what the network created by was all about what does this case tell us about the islamists here in germany i mean how much of a threat does that still pose. authorities say that the situation is still serious there's still a serious threat of islamic terrorism but it has changed compared to the years to tell that 20122016 we now don't anymore see

a clear and widely accepted leader of islamist factions here in germany and the situation is evolving now the major threat is given by individuals who might be inspired by terrorist ideologies but there is not a strong clear network here in germany and the situation has definitely changed since 2016 also because of the fall of the so-called islamic state in syria and iraq and because of the action of authorities here in germany pursuing such groups are political correspondent julia so delhi thank you. let's check in on some other stories making news at this hour joe biden has held its 1st bilateral meeting as u.s. president with canadian prime minister justin trudeau in the virtual meeting the 2 leaders discussed their mutual policy goals around china and climate change they pledged to work towards achieving net 0 emissions by 2050. iran has officially

started limiting international inspections of its nuclear facilities it will no longer share video footage of the sites with the u.n. nuclear watchdog and it will also restrict in person inspections of the facilities tehran is calling for the united states to lift economic sanctions imposed by former president trump. and british naturalist david at david attenborough has issued another impassioned plea to world leaders to take immediate united action on climate change speaking at a virtual meeting of the un security council said continuing on our current path would lead to the collapse of the natural world in the breakdown of civilization and astra zeneca will reportedly deliver less than half of the vaccines have promised the european union in the 2nd quarter of this year the drug maker is supposed to provide 180000000 doses to the e.u. by the end of june it is already missed its 1st quarter commitments due to production issues. for the 1st time german authorities have given improved rapid

covert 1000 tests for home use 3 products have been cleared by germany's medicines regulator until now rapid tests could only be carried out by trained professionals here and the health minister again spahn hopes the kits will play a central role in curbing the pandemic as lock down restrictions are used he says more home test kits will be approved next week as. well the mass testing plan for germany has already been rolled out in austria is funny such are reports from vienna where rapid and tests are freely available and even compulsory for school students the opera house is one of the landmarks but unfortunately the only going locals are no longer coming here to enjoy a performance what they want is a rapid and teach test and this is for example. over there which by the way used to be a traditional viennese food stand. i need to get tested to.

thank you very much well needless to say this was very uncomfortable but very quick to within minutes i will have a result this cost me sooty 9 euros but there are hundreds of pharmacists in austria where you can get tested for free but there you will need to wait a bit longer for the result and there are a lot of people here who are willing to get tested to get the squeak and fijian tests done in order to go to the hairdresser or to go to school because there are schools here in austria it's required twice a week to present such a test a negative called the test result of course to be able to participate at school currently $1000000.00 tests are carried out each week in all stria one of the highest rates in the world has the government and the government hoops the more acceptable to be called to get tested the sooner the economy will be able to get

back and to reopen now a new report is calling for u.n. sanctions against sri lanka as former top generals for war crimes during the country's civil war for almost 3 decades for tests lot for an independent state for the ethnic minority more than 100000 people were killed in the war many of them the most civilians thousands more disappear. this is the number of days these mothers have been protesting for 4 years they've stood on the side of the road in the town of a junia and an officer lanka. the women want to know where their children and husbands are they've been missing since the end of the civil war in 2009. jail when he took us in poli has also been here every day for for us she's looking for her daughter. that will learn a lot about it but that we need each other my suffering is also felt by these other mothers because of that i keep on fighting it not only for my child but for only

children and husbands who went missing we have to find out what happened to our children that all these mothers believe that their children and loved ones will return they can't lose that hope. 52 year old says she recognized her daughter in this photo from 2015 it apparently shows the girl standing next to form a sri lankan president much or a palace or cena. signifies he spared her to initiate the mother's protest. the family belongs to the tamil minority during the last days of the civil war they were forced to leave their home and were taken to a camp run by sri lanka's secret service and interrogators on the way to anita causing polite says her daughter was kidnapped by whom is unclear. shortly before the end of the civil war in 2009 the sri lankan army combed tamil territory the soldiers were looking for fighters from the tamil tiger liberation organisation or l.t.d. who were fighting for independence according to the un both warring parties committed

serious war crimes up to 15000 tamils are officially messick the united nations believes the number to be much higher. it has been impossible for this family to find peace since the eldest child disappeared they have been to the police time and again and even called on the u.n. refugee agency and the un human rights commission to get involved but in vain. it's very difficult now that my wife stays on the run for me at the protest site but i'm with her and thought all the time about them and i keep telling my wife to bring our daughter home. or that they were already there i'm convinced that my daughter is still a life or literary. protest spicer rankers tunnels are growing. thousands took to the streets for 3 days in early february demanding the government clarify what happened to the countless missing so long as current president got a biologic hoxha declared all missing persons to ceased in 2020 including the

daughter of giovanni to casa poli. rajapakse that was the defense minister during the civil war the un commissioner for human rights lays the blame for alleged atrocities committed during that war on rajapaksa current army chief. the women simply want to know what happened to red children so far no sri lankan government has offered to help them. so let's get more about the story now with another piece the un deputy high commissioner for human rights thank you so much for joining us. let's talk 1st of all about the measures that you are seeking in sri lanka what sort of sanctions are you calling for and what are they supposed to achieve. well 1st of all i mean i think the big worry is that these and by nations with impunity without any sign of address poorer the victims so we are

calling for a 1st of all an enhanced one a training and strong preventive action by the international community i think this is essential for us to make sure that we don't slip further into war and more violations we just heard from this story the right to truth and justice for the victims i think this failure to deal with the past has had a devastating impact on all the communities and so we want the international community to listen and need the early warning signs. time for international action to ensure this justice investigations and prosecution in their national courts i think is a is one option certainly under the accepted principles of extraterritorial universal jurisdiction and targeted sanctions what we've seen before acid freezes travel ban against credibly alleged perpetrators are going to be important aspects and wondering what we're sponsor got you're anticipating here from the sri lankan

government because it has maintained that it is not complicit in any disappearances or war crimes and that it doesn't recognize any foreign judges so what impact could these measures actually have. well i mean do we have a very transparent relationship we published our report which will be discussed this afternoon when the council the high commissioner will present the report and then we will open it up to it if there are active discussion and debate we have a gauge with the government they have read the report they have made their comments we've had discussions and i think we need to have a continued open dialogue as we do both in colombo and from here you see from new york is when i think we believe that unless we see specific action we have really many worrying trance over the past year or so what the government says and what it does need to be consistent there's been an increasing militarization of many governmental functions more intimidation of civil society very rapidly

shrinking civic space many constitutional safeguards inversed political obstruction of accountability and the use of antiterrorism laws i think we're looking to them things that there are many facts on the ground that speak to the inability or the unwillingness to move forward if we talk about the violations that you're tracing back to the conflict the war ended more than a decade ago why do you think it has taken so long to call out human rights abusers in sri lanka. well i mean i think this is always a complicated issue we need to have the facts we need to establish we need to have access i think to the many narratives that are going on and i think we believe that's one stage that we really were making progress but i think these past couple of years have been very complicated for us but simply this last year and i think that demonstrated inability and unwillingness of the government to stage to deal with the past to advance accountability in any meaningful way means that we have to

consider international action and the tools insurance justice for international crimes we saw the emotional story of families looking for answers about their disappeared loved ones are you hopeful that there really is an opportunity here for them to find justice well i mean i think that's what this house is all about having the human rights council is really trying to underscore that while if there is justice international human rights for humanitarian law we can't we have drawn up many plans we have many prescriptions we know how we can make this situation better but it needs to start with owning up to what happened. ending this overview awkward community and really making this accountability stick where it needs to have to leave it there not at all nash if un deputy commissioner for human rights thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me. now to some more

stories from around the world a court in malta has handed a 15 year jail sentence to a man who pleaded guilty to murdering investigative journalist daphne cut. she had been working to expose corruption among multiple a tickle in business elite when she was killed in a car bomb attack in 2073 other defendants are still awaiting trial. authorities in ecuador say over 60 inmates have died in riots in 3 prisons the military was deployed to help police quality uprisings which authorities blame on criminal organizations jails in ecuador are severely overcrowded and often see violence between rival gangs. and thousands of anti-government protesters have rallied in the georgian capital tbilisi following the detention of the main opposition leader make a 1000000 was detained tuesday at his party headquarters he faces charges of inciting violence during protests in 2019 1000000 cars calls the charges politically motivated. gulfstar tiger woods has undergone surgery for multiple leg

injuries after a car accident in the u.s. city of los angeles woods had to be pulled from his s.u.v. it is the latest setback for the 45 year old whose golfing talents have often been eclipsed by his personal struggles. this is how tiger woods' car was found on tuesday morning after rolling over several times in everyone is hoping the best for the golf ingrate. tiger woods turned professional in 1996 into golf by storm considered the greatest golfer of his generation tiger spent more weeks ranked as the world's number one then anyone else and he's the only pro to win all 4 major golf titles in a row from the u.s. open to the masters title in 2001 with 14 major championship titles tiger redefined the sport but a series of injuries and personal issues the railed his career. i was

unfaithful i had affairs i cheated. goods made a comeback in 2019 and won the masters for the 5th time today aged 45 he needs to win 3 more majors to become joint leader only all time list. could this car accident bring his career to an end tiger's undergone a long surgical procedure he is currently awake responsive and recovering in his hospital room says a statement from the tiger foundation. tigers fans are hoping for a speedy recovery. i just hope he's ok you know i hope he's not permanently hurt i hope he can play again i'm sure that's what he's thinking right now. he's had some fabulous years and now he's just you know he's he has his slumps but he's had a surgery too so yeah you just hate to see anything like that happen to have

a big impact on the community it really would the sport all together in 2017 woods was charged with driving under the influence emergency workers say there was no evidence of driver impairment when woods was assessed at the scene on tuesday morning and no blood samples were drawn. let's get a reminder now of our top stories a german court has found a former syrian secret service agent guilty of facilitating state sponsored torture in syria it's the 1st trial of its kind the defendant was charged as an accomplice in the torture of opposition activists in 2011. and in iraq each creature has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in a german prison for radicalizing and of precluding young people to fight for the so-called islamic state of the law is believed to be the group's de facto leader interim. coming up next our show made in germany looks at how the pandemic is

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