history of slavery i think will truly be making progress when we all accept these to use leverage as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on d w. e n. this is d w news and these are our top stories a u.s. intelligence report says the murder of savvy journalists. was probably approved by crime prince mohammed bin sound man the report was compiled at the time in 2018 prison only now being released by the by the administration the prince has always denied any involvement washington has imposed sanctions on dozens of saudi officials. the european union has agreed to develop

a covert 19 vaccine passport the scheme could allow people to start traveling again in time for the summer holiday season in the leaders agreed in principle on the past 40 minute drive to ford made their pandemic plan governments are hoping proof of vaccination will help to use travel restrictions. gunman in nigeria have abducted several 100 schoolgirls from a boarding school in the northern some cyrus state witnesses say gangs attacked security guards before taking the girls criminal cells of that a stepped up kidnappings of school pupils to demand ransom payments. you're watching news you can follow us on instagram and twitter or visit our website d w dot com. joe biden says saudi arabia's de facto leader ordered the 2018 killing of

dissidents saudi german's jamal khashoggi and the biden white house now says it wants to recalibrate its relationship with its longstanding ally catron the threat from iran meanwhile president biden's 1st military strike was against iran backed militias in syria as the white house tries to encourage or bully tehran back into the 2050 nuclear deal so what is president biden's plan for the middle east i'm phil gayle if they win this is the day. we've been very clear that the murder to mark. it was a horrific crime of course this is a crime that as i said before shock the conscience and i expects. that we will be in a position. before long to speak to steps to

promote accountability going forward for this horrific crime. also on the day of the british supreme court rules against a woman who was stripped of her citizenship after traveling to syria to join the so-called islamic state. the supreme court unanimously a law or the home secretary's appeals and dismisses miss baker rooms across the pale. welcome to the day joe biden describes saudi arabia the u.s. ally as a pariah state on thursday he bypassed the country's de facto ruler crown prince mohammed bin sound man and spoke directly with the saudi king today a u.s. intelligence report places the blame for the 2018 murder of dissident journalist. squarely princella man's feet and then this iran president biden signals are

initially more positive saying that he's open to returning to the 2050 nuclear deal with iran which donald trump walked away from but that was before iranian backed militias fired missiles on u.s. targets in iraq this month the u.s. replied last night bombing iranian militias in syria so we'll cross to washington for an assessment of biden's middle east policy in a 2nd 1st his u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin on those airstrikes in syria. with. the target the whatever you know we. were property of that oregon. shia militia. that conducted the strike very deliberate of a bridge as you would expect this to be. a record you refuse to rest again to develop i'm told you today we're going off into the return to work.

right so we're going to talk about we're going to see how much of the middle east we can cover in the next 7 minutes with seth binder who is an advocacy officer at prome at the project on the middle east democracy he joins us from washington d.c. welcome to day don't you we'll start with your mouth khashoggi and so now we have the biden administration blaming saudi arabia. and crown prince mohammed bin solomon for mr. robert rogue operatives president from suppressed this highly critical reports watched as joe biden released it well 1st and foremost. the president released it because it's the law and thankfully the president this president is following the law this is something that congress had actually passed requiring better report was publicly released and in the trunk the administration chose to ignore that and so that by the ministration is honoring congress as well and following the law and so that is

sort of 1st and foremost of why and then i think also you've seen the biden and ministration during the campaign and since taking office shrestha that they want to reassess the relationship that they want to have accountability for the murder and this is one important step the release of this report and then i think also you know what you've seen today is there were additional sanctions that were added there was a big show do you ban that was put in place and so specifically saudis who were involved in the murder additional ones have now been sanctioned and the saudis who have been involved in targeting dissidents and journalists have now also been sanctioned so as the by the administration recalculates as you say of this relationship what does he want from them. yeah that's a good question i mean i think one of the important things that he wants and you've

actually seen a bit of this and he's repeatedly emphasized it is centering human rights at the core of u.s. foreign policy and and so you've seen fuel was recently released and others as well and so that's certainly one aspect you've seen and this is on yemen one of the 1st decisions made in foreign policy was announcing that the u.s. would and its support for the war and so it wants to push the saudis to also end the war and have a cease fire and have peace and then you know one of the other major areas that the buy administration is focusing on in the short term in the region is rejoining the nuclear deal and so they want to work with the saudis on that and as well as other regional partners and i think you know one thing to say is they're trying to sort of the administration is trying to thread a needle here where they've emphasized that they want to hold saudis accountable

for the murder they want to push on human rights they want to see the saudis improve on human rights but at the same time they have emphasized they want to make sure that they're protecting the saudis and their sovereignty so that rocket attacks aren't coming from yemen or other places so they're trying to navigate that's that's quite an obligation is and that's quite a juggling act you accuse one of your big allies of orchestrating a mode of this you disapprove of while at the same time saying help us to help our to counter a common enemy. iran. yeah i don't know your absolute right it's a difficult challenge the region has been complicated and you know past presidents have have had similar challenges in terms of engaging with the region and what are sort of the best strategies and policies to take and you know this sort of seems to be the one that the by administration has taken now i would just say that you know

in terms of sort of. in terms of calling out the saudis for this murder i think what this report shows clearly is that there is overwhelming evidence that the crown prince and that the saudi regime are responsible and and so the u.s. should abide by its laws and they should be calling them out they should be holding them accountable and that includes they should be sanctioning m.v.s. directly that's not to the recent u.s.'s strike against iran backed militias in syria what message was joe biden sending with this he's focused military action. i mean i think you sort of showed you know it's a direct response to attacks that happened in recently. and i think also at the same time you're seeing this as a response to the iranians and saying that they want to enter

a deal but they're not going to ignore other actions. aligned militias and others they're not going to ignore that they're going to address those at the same time that they still want to try to get back into a deal responding to those attacks russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov asked a question which is sort of partially answered but we'll put it to you again in just about we'll hear from mr la 1st. the put it we want to ask the americans directly if the allegedly made a decision never to leave syria will shoot even to the point of destroying this country but with that with the both of those words no we should it is very important for us to understand that the united states strategic line on the ground and in the region on the whole you're. too big points south buy into the u.s. position on syria and in the region as a whole can you help. us. i you know as you pointed out i

sort of address some of these early on you know clearly by administration has to you know areas of focus initially the iran nuclear deal getting back into the deal and resolving what's happening this terrible humanitarian crisis in yemen and so they've taken immediate steps to try to address those and i think and then the 3rd thing i would say is they have repeatedly emphasize trying to put human rights back into the core of foreign policy and that you know means the region those seem to be sort of the 3 and michelle areas but ultimately you know this strike and what it demonstrates is that as they see it the ministration isn't going to back down when they feel that u.s. troops and u.s. partners are at threat they're going to respond ok let's talk about the nuclear

deal that donald trump insisted the deal signed when mr biden was vice president is a bad one how much does joe biden agree with him and would he accept a return to the deal as it stood or is he also looking for changes i think he's been pretty clear during the campaign and since he's take taken office that he completely disagrees with former president trump that he doesn't want to react to a deal you know they've made these arguments that they want to is soon as iran gets back in alignment with the agreement they want to the agreement sort of navigating that you know who goes 1st this sort of been the the initial early challenge. but clearly they want to get back into the deal and and i think you know senior officials in the demonstration have made it clear that once that happens then they want to try to address other larger regional issue it's sort of cleopatra you for joining us from the project on middle east and democracy. thanks.

human rights organization amnesty international says it has evidence that eritrean troops massacred hundreds of people if you use that northern to grow it returned last november and there's witness accounts and satellite images to document the atrocities reports suggest that eritrea troops carried out war crimes in their attempts to take control from rebels in the region. this family got away they've escaped the fighting in ethiopia's tikrit region and have found shelter in sudan to w. news met them back in november when they just arrived. hope we never met a plane or we cried and our children cried with us and they wept in front of us so i think the shooting started while we were eating and we just had to leave. their home in ethiopia has seen almost 4 months of fighting between local rebel

forces and the theater in military. legibly receiving support by eritrean troops gaining an accurate picture of events in tikrit has been difficult to impossible journalists have been blocked from entering the region phone and internet services were at times cut completely and humanitarian organizations have struggled to get in. in early december un human rights chief michel passionless said there is an urgent need for independent monitoring of the human rights situation in the region for all necessary measures to protect civilians and for accountability for violations that came about 2 weeks too late for this woman and some 800 others in ethiopia as holy city of. that's how many people are thought to have died in an alleged massacre near an ancient orthodox church. a recent investigation by the associated press found that the perpetrators were soldiers from neighboring eritrea

and a new report by amnesty international backs this up the human rights group says it's collected evidence that ira trained soldiers went on a rampage in acts of on the 28th of november after an earlier attack on them by a small group of rebel fighters knesset mary's church witness accounts describe them roaming the streets and shooting at fleeing civilians with automatic weapons and precision rifles i saw the people being shot on the ground when they were running approximately 10 people or more all of them young men everyone was scared and run away eritrea's government has denied its forces were involved in any massacre after the a.p. investigation was published the country's information minister called the story a horrendous lie relevant ethiopians to choose sions had long ascertained the us a fallacy of the story he posted on twitter fighting in tikrit is said to be ongoing and it'll be hard to verify what really happened in axum in late november

but in light of amnesty international's new allegations the eritrean government may face fresh questions about its involvement in this bloody conflict that is playing out away from the eyes of the world. that's the u.k. where the supreme court has ruled in the case of a british woman who left london as a teenager to join islamic state jihad this in syria the 5 judges ruled unanimously that should mean the begum should not be allowed to return to the u.k. to contest the government's 2019 decision to revoke her citizenship was bacon's lawyers argue that this leaves her effectively stateless british government says she's bangladeshi by descent and that she still poses a risk to national security. it's begun was 15 when she went to other school girls left to join islamic state jihad this in syria today age 21 she's confined to a camp in that country and the country is controlled by armed guards so sure the 21

year old woman continue to be punished for the mistakes you made as a child well let's explore this with the new that need a lawyer who's a professor of law at queen's university belfast regents professor at the university of minnesota and the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism welcome to d w can we start with your reaction to today's supreme court verdict. yes so were enormously disappointed by this document the mandate i hold as an intervenor in the proceedings we he's issued an advocate history and it's a very disappointing outcome both for the rights of the child as well as their rights to have a complete and fear hearing when one citizenship is being stripped because there are there are of quite a few moving parts here on the. begum as a security risk

a right to appear in person to appeal the government's decision to revoke a passport and indeed whether a government should be allowed to revoke someone citizenship in the 1st place. well let's start with the last question it is true that governments can in highly exceptional circumstances revoke a person says citizenship but the caviar in that is that the process of revoke ation has to be fair and mistaken is in a camp as you said in an arid desert in northeast syria she has no meaningful way of participating in the legal proceedings that will define her rights to remain to challenge the status at stripping of her citizenship and she'll face punishment in that camp for even communicating with her lawyers cell phone so the very minimal of jute process is entirely vacated here and the supreme court seems on concerned

about the consequences of that from this begun but also more broadly the message it sends to governments about citizenship serving the 2nd question of security risk well unless mistaken is given the opportunity to at least provide some evidence to give evaluations to be engaged with a process that can assess her dangerousness and i think we are give her a fair chance to be rehabilitated nor a fair chance to be prosecuted for crimes that she's committed any if she is not in us in a territory or in a space where she can be appropriately monitored and assessed and the only relevant territory for that purpose is the united kingdom i don't think we're suggesting that non-state armed actors should be responsible for the safety and welfare of citizens of western countries who have highly functional rule of law systems except that just did that as far as i understand and you know that the law professor this was not so much about whether she is guilty of of of an atrocity of this hour the

other this was about whether she could and so the u.k. you know it's a challenge the government's decision to revoke. possible and that the supreme court sort of looked about and said well it's a it's it's there is no perfect decision but the government's case that she as a security is a security risk outweighs the right to appear before the struggle that's right the narrative is a very narrow procedure and of sin that was before the court and regrettably the quare did not have ice before it for example to assess some broader questions related to mrs begum situation including for example whether she was a victim of terrorism bear in mind she was 15 when she left to go to then isis controlled syria and many including my office believe that she was groomed and may

have been the victim of trafficking and should be certain subject to the essential protections the vulnerable people who make bad decisions but those issues were not before the court that's right but in part but evacuating that broader conversation on that station of citizenship stripping were actually also missing part of the more complicated complex miles ache here which includes the question of accountability so absolutely the court decided a narrow question today and decided it in ways that make it likely that we're going to see more people being stripped of their citizenship because it offers a sort of a perfect foil for stripping citizenship which is a national security claim so. everyone is agree that this is this is an imperfect solution but if she is a danger to public a safety then how how does how does the government how do the court square that

particular circle when you intentionally but i think one of the challenges here is that assessment of threat so as we know there have been mixed messages around the threat that she and other women and children in the camps in syria pose there is an exceptionally large claim being made about the risk that they pose but bear in mind that none of these individuals have been subject to any kind of assess that our legal process to assess that risk what we have are closed proceedings in which claims are made about risk and those risks are not evaluated in the same kind of way as we would have for example if we were having a criminal trial and mistaken the only thing we know that mistaken has done is that she's traveled to syria she's had a child in fact 3 children by isis by isis fighter and she was married and there is no other claim of risk other than marriage and childbearing so it seems to me

extraordinarily destructive that we find ourselves at a moment where childbearing and membership of a group through marriage and childbirth constitutes security risk fascinate clear not only and with that but now know where i would we i think we that you've made your point absolutely clearly that professor so i will leave it there thank you so much professor a familiar name allowing un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism thank you so much. european union has agreed to develop a covered 19 vaccine passport that could allow more people more freedom to travel in time for the summer tourism season it was one of the measures of the debate at a virtual summit of the leaders aimed at better coordinated pandemic strategy. summer sunshine and salty air it sounds like paradise but not for the holiday destinations in southern europe that have been hit hard by the pandemic they want

a vaccine passport to enable more tourists to flock to their locations but german chancellor angela merkel says politicians may still need a while it is definitely right to plan this for the future but it shouldn't mean that you need one to travel the political decisions will have to be taken. off vaccination is underway but slowly the prospect of a passport already has people dreaming of far off destinations politicians say that there must be proof that vaccinated people are noninfectious when asked to give miss if that's a given that there will be no reason to restrict basic freedoms and we have to return those that is very clear that we shouldn't raise false hopes and we should appeal to people's sense of solidarity so that they follow the social distancing rules we simply don't know yet how long immunity will last after a vaccination is. no longer just travelling virtually but really crossing borders the tourism sector is pinning its hopes on the digital id as

a passport back to profitability. for you last september we made suggestions to the federal government for a test concept for travel still isn't one that we should be moving more quickly and not have to wait another 4 months for digital passports to get to. the european union says developing this kind of passport could take 3 months months during which travel dreams will keep on growing. now to pakistan of policing kharaj they have come up with an idea of combating crime a special rollerblading unit in sabah new ford where i will give cops more speed to chase criminals through the streets the arrow so the setting is narrow streets. the training programs that run smooth as silk these people are not gliding through this compound karate for fun they're

a team of cops made up of 10 women and 10 men tossed to stop theft and harassment in the city of 20000000. starting here this is just the beginning to me i feel that through this training we will be able to cut crime in the future i don't like to see the roller blades going to really benefit us we can wish there were allies very quickly where it is usually difficult to reach. and a new dia meant to close encounters. to states to better catch criminals who often sleep on motorcycles when you feel like we have felt we needed to come up with some innovative approach to control street crime in toronto. when analyzed and saw that there are certain spots where crime incidents say for example mobile snatching but on a more frequent for example in basements in. the roller blading police are

following in the footsteps of similar units in europe they're all fishable out starts in march but the unit has already begun patrolling karate speech front. because it was a bother to look at seeing them here in clean uniforms since the morning gives us a sense of security. would push us even in the daytime it's not ok here. we didn't have either what they're seeing. the rollerblades have limitations though operations in areas with poor road conditions will be difficult but on tops like these catching criminals with speed and agility will be just a briggs. on time for me to get my skates on that now because the surgeon continues online i'll try to state over the new years i have agreed that.

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