15 minutes before she arrived 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 our christine minutes later she i have. she called him and he never responded oh all. i mean of the day but i was so calling 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 they still don't know anything about what happened to him. when they actually survived by leaving syria and not getting killed there maybe i've physically survived somehow by you cannot just get used to the fact that you lost your dad in one second you know you cannot just use to the fact get used to the

fact that he just disappeared for nor is a. while for us fathers one of 130000 people who have gone missing in syria investigators believe most of them were disappeared in bashar al assad's prisons a german court has now convicted one former intelligence officer for his role in the torture of prisoners in syria and other officers trial is still ongoing when the trial began was 1st saddam's the portrait of 61 to 10 years and held a vigil in front of the courthouse. i don't mind myself and i don't mind the whole word every day that my dad was political was against a team he only demanded freedom justice and a state of law and for that reason has been this that period for almost 8 years now and this is not acceptable i'm not going to be silent about that today we're often feels at home in berlin. though she could see herself eventually returning to syria

and rebuilding the country in the meantime it's important for her to be in germany at this istari moment i think this is the hope of many syrians in germany we are working our best to be part of the decision making regarding syria because you cannot just discuss and decide anything about us without us wafa hopes to reunite with her father one day until then show you mind the world of the fate of syria has disappeared. on high and was at the court for the verdict told us why it was so significant for the 1st time a court has ruled that the syrian government has committed and is committing crimes against humanity in a systematic attack on its own population and her ruling judge on the code devoted more than half of her time to the situation in syria in general and to the brutal repression of the protests following the arab spring 10 years ago in particular she

described in detail the system of oppression and torture by his intelligence services and the scope of atrocities. was found guilty of supporting those crimes against humanity in 30 cases. he helped to round up protestors and to take them to the notorious prison knowing full well that what was awaiting them was torture and maybe death he was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison. so the sentiment among the syrians present at the trial however is it's not the length of the sentence that is important it's the fact that is a verdict at all the fact that the 1st step to accountability and justice in syria . staying in germany where a notorious iraqi preacher has been convicted for recruiting young people to fight for the so-called islamic state of

a while that was believed to be the group's de facto leader in germany the conviction brings an end to a costly high security trial. after 3 years in the dock the verdict was handed down guilty of belonging to a foreign terrorist organization helping to plan subversive violent acts and financing terrorism. find out the law was known as the leading authority in the fundamentalist salafist say no and he and the other defendants primed young men theologically and plea for missions for the islamic state they arranged contacts with smugglers planned travel routes and gave the men money to leave the country and want to go for the author i think. this is the mosque in hilda's heim where i preached holy war he was also known as the preacher without a face for his online videos where he had his back to the camera. among those he radicalized from the mosque where german twin brothers who blew themselves up in

a suicide attack in iraq in 2015 and a teenager convicted of bombing a sikh temple in germany in 2016. he also had links to his armory who mounted a deadly terrorist attack on a christmas market in berlin the same year. abu alaa was arrested in november 26th scene investigators had him under surveillance for a long time. the preacher chose to remain silent during the lengthy trial he was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison. 3 co-defendants were handed down sentences ranging from 4 to 8 years. let's get more on this story with iraqi journalist i mean with saif he is here in berlin hi i'm here good to see you is the case the biggest action that's been taken against the so-called islamic state in germany so far exactly so me so this is one of significance our courts in germany about islamic state

activities in germany we are talking about 200 more than 240 days for the trial days 120 witnesses had been listened with the whole total cost of $10000000.00. euros this is a sort of interesting court because it has to do with stomach state activities in germany and all all of that it has to would have heard of all of us from other of that as he's brought you route which ease up one of the main figure of his stomach state in germany i mean this is a trial that started 3 and a half years ago and you mentioned how much money was put into it i mean how much how difficult was it to gather evidence against. it has to do with his activities with a warlock tippit is itself he was very not and the in the in the open life not in

the public life he was are trying he tried and he succeeded to or to cover his activities under the lie there is no photos of him that is not videos about him he was communicate in intelligent why with his followers he has an application for his followers and that's why it's make it difficult for the prosecutors here in germany to gather evidence they should listen to the some members of the x. members of a stomach state which has to do they have to do with a well or and this is the point because the lie of ottawa large right tool and jaw put a many questions of that evidence coming from a stunning state them solve but i think the court and fall are many of our evidence coming from police let's talk about his followers and he is on the scene in germany

because it has changed since i will while i was arrested 5 years ago so how much of a threat has said still pose. exactly if we were talking about hostile islamic state stage we are talking about. not in the quantity of that before for an hour yes but we are talking about the quality of that sounds in germany i think it's still a dangerous and. pursuit jointers and the police and the authorities facing another kind of threats it is a quality of threats i think we have still dangerous in germany with some members of islamic states not and that's quality as we saw 5 years ago but i think another quality to use the economy cation in a different way in this march and why i think this question is khomeini and the

whole law and the opportunities is going to invest a lot of in gauging moment to follow that 1 that sense this is what i think there has been also examined. just discussed in the court itself. journalist i mean was speaking to us thank you. you're welcome now to some other headlines from around the world joe biden has held its 1st bilateral meeting as u.s. president with couldn't canadian prime minister justin trudeau in a 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 we're now and british naturalist 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 and said continuing on our current path would lead to the collapse of the natural world and the breakdown of

civilization. ghana has become the 1st country to receive vaccines through the un back to copaxone initiative 600000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine have arrived in uk or it is the 1st batch of 2300000000 vaccines expected to be delivered to low and middle income countries by the end of this year. and astra zeneca will reportedly deliver less than half of the vaccines it promised the european union in the 2nd quarter of this year the drug maker is supposed to provide $180000000.00 doses to the e.u. by the end of june it has already missed its 1st quarter commitments due to production issues well germany could be impacted by that shortfall the government is expecting to receive $16000000.00 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine in the 2nd quarter of the year instead of 34000000 health minister against bond has been given more details of the plans to ease the lock down it has been in place since december infection rates fell in the 1st weeks of this year but are now stagnating ministers

want to make rapid tasks more available and today they approved 3 kits for use at home you can launch them flog them talk to you and chief political editor michelle has been following all of this in the bundestag for us as we heard their health minister spahn is being questioned by parliament tell us what's been discussed. we expected more of a grilling than he actually got in the end but he certainly was on the defensive over his initial plan to have free instant tests available to all germans shifted from the 1st of march to whatever comes out of that next meeting between the 16 states and german chancellor angela merkel this coming wednesday so the government clearly is on the defense is simply not being fast enough that's on vaccines right at the beginning of the pandemic was on masks and now it's also on the d.i.y.

and tests which have been approved today they're not in the shops yet that is something that can spawn the health minister promised would happen over the coming days and over all lingering question what is the concept now as germany becomes increasingly patchwork in who gets to go back to school of which age which shops are open under which conditions and what that next road map will be to show people a way out of the lockdown as germany is hovering around about the 60 just below today incidence rate and really wants to get down to at least $50.35 ideally before it starts opening so more questions than answers here michelle how much pressure is the health minister under here. he's under significant pressure but she also was quite clear on several occasions that that person should go right back to the federal states those states he pointed out insisted on taking charge of

delivering vaccines of the actual distribution more than alluding to the question of why hundreds of thousands of astra zeneca doses are still in the selves it simply is not his responsibility and the next big question of course will be the testing how is that delivered how fast is that delivered and how much will that tail into highly regional concepts now of showing a way out of the lock down and here there was tangible frustration in the air because that is something that the minister cannot influence directly but has responsibility for nonetheless you mentioned that infection numbers have started to plateau so where do things stand right now in germany. well more and more experts say this is the 3rd wave if not the next pandemic altogether and that would be a new quality here that's also something that came from health minister span and german chancellor angela merkel also was quoted speaking to our own party is

talking about that 3rd wave having arrived so it's an interesting point where i expect to see germany really change direction no longer simply following those incidence rates and the numbers but also giving into the growing political pressure and the public fatigue that is locked down after a lockdown and shops really going past that red line of what they can endure despite government help which is a driving too slow many criticize so next week we'll see a very interesting moment whether germany starts living with the pandemic rather than focusing everything on just fighting it our chief political editor michel look at the bundestag for us thank you. now the mass testing planned for germany has already been rolled out in australia is funny fish are reports from vienna where rapid antigen tests are freely available

and even compulsory for school students the opera house is one of vienna's landmarks but unfortunately for the own going pandemic the locals are no longer coming here to enjoy a performance what they want is a rapid and teaching test and this is for example the spruce 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 my result this cost me sooty 9 euros but there are hundreds of pharmacy and all 3 are tested for free but there you will need to wait a bit longer for the results and there are a lot of people here who are willing to get tested to get to squeak and fiji in 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 an antigen 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. funny char reporting there from vienna now it's more headlines 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 cutter one of the lead cia she had been working to expose corruption among political and business elite when she was killed in a car bomb attack in 20173 other defendants are still awaiting trial. 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. authorities in ecuador say over 60 inmates have died in riots and 3 prisons the military was deployed to help police quil quell the 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 nick i'm a leo was detained tuesday at his party headquarters he faces charges of inciting violence during protests in 2019 mainly across the charges politically motivated. to israel now and an ecological disaster a massive oil spill has hit most of israel's mediterranean shoreline leaving black

sticky tar it's also caused extensive damage to wildlife as tanya kramer reports the cleanup could take months even years. it's a meticulous task clumps of tar 9 descend on is was mediterranean coast one in tears and soldiers are cleaning the peaches by hand the all spill has been described as one of the worst environmental disasters in decades it has affected more than 170 kilometers off shore line be so good it does it give you tons of crude oil reach the beaches of israel from the south to the north and crucially ecological systems have going to affect and these are pictures where they . nature with animals and plants living in the water have been affected by somebody have died she high above my. if. the tower was

detected after having been to storm last week the cause of the all spill most likely from a ship off the coast is currently being investigated but the case has been put on the controversial media gag order. environmental activists have called the disaster a wake up call for the government to put better environmental protections in place this group is out at sea to help with locating potential oil remnants in the water the overall effect on marine life assistance be assessed but for some it is too late like this turtle found over the weekend but it's not good time. and so we have a small brown turtle and you can see what the title did and look at the extent of this disaster it was like a small turtle. doves but i'm sure no one is monologue. authorities say the cleanup operation could take

a long time the task sticks to rock and pollutes the sand volunteers are determined to do their part in the cleanup effort and they get a lot closer to it i think it is important that every israeli who usually enjoys the beach and they to it's important that we all come together and help with this mission it is a part of us and. for now the affected beaches have been closed to the public for an indefinite time. golf star 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 assess your feet it is the latest setback for the 45 year old whose golf intelligence has often been eclipsed by his personal struggles. this is how tiger woods car was found on tuesday morning after rolling over several times and everyone is hoping the best for the golfing great.

tiger woods turned professional in 1996 and took 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 majors go files 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 de railed his career hoop 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 her 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 check in on

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