this is date of the news live from berlin a stark warning that sectarian violence could return to northern ireland leaders surge calm after another night of violence between police and protesters it comes on the anniversary of an agreement that brought peace to the province also coming up. military salutes and a moment of silence as a person and the world pay tribute to prince philip one day after the queen elizabeth's husband has died.

and ahead of a homage thanks for joining us arden's prime minister has warned of a return to sectarian violence in northern ireland after another night of unrest in belfast the warning comes as our lands and the united kingdom mark the 23rd anniversary of the good fight of good friday agreement which ended nearly 3 decades of conflict there was more violence on friday spike calls for calm following the death of prince philip scuffles between protesters and police led to 14 officers being injured the tensions mainly stemmed from the pro british unionist community in belfast and it's fuelled by bitterness over the brags that agreement which imposes border checks between the province and the rest of the u.k. . joining me live now from belfast is henry mcdonald he's an author

and aren and correspondent thank you very much indeed for being with us here on detail but you so for decades it seemed like peace had returned to northern ireland and now this what's happened. well it's likely you are a crisis of confidence in the unionist community they believe the political european union. britain to keep northern ireland the single market house in a sense economically all are separate or more gone from the rest of the u.k. i'm not as critical of constitutional insert they added into other fuck their speeches you know over the air and on going sectarian division to monitor asked by the good friday agreement because an oxy cocktail of social forces to reduce the violence of the last year but i would say tonight it's relatively calm it's not what it wants and in iran in the case of the rioting the war is peace and we know

at least are not kill henry the belfast city council or brian smith has been speaking about the reasons for the rest assisted us to talk about young people who have no hope of little opportunity peer educator low concentration and well learned content already markedly a fact that 3 the circumstances under the structural inequalities that we're dealing with post conflict on. their all of occasions of practice i think northern ireland has been used as being used as a pawn that's been used as a pawn by the british government it's been used as a pawn during by the european union. how they were asked warnings that the split between london and brussels could potentially lead to violence in northern ireland what could have been done to prevent something like this will ever happen with the 1st year or so but i would add that also problem government also several and using martin are. on this argument. were actually what needs to be on i think

in my opinion some modification of the call to lessen the destruction of. the small group britain and the northern ireland to. undermine the undermining all of the impression that some why northern ireland is one such site it's the u.k. without the consent of its population and remember consent of the population is the bedrock of the good friday agreement near 23 years ago there can't be any office for 2 years unless a majority vote for it and we're going to actually implement say well the political impulse buy london and the brussels flights in the face of that it goes on their mind the consent principle and this is very very interesting i'm not sure why the fuck it there is this or and like you said today marks the 23rd anniversary of the good friday agreement which you say it's under arrest of being under threat i think

it is not at risk i mean if it is proved to be general if the survey masacre it has survived serious only shorter and sectarian widening in the past what makes this time different argument on an r.e.c. order that restraint our question of the constitutional existence of war in iraq which is it is it in and cottons that get dressed and a good job with the agreement at risk sure ok heading with on a life ross in belfast thank you so much for your time. now britain is mourning prince philip husband to queen elizabeth after he died on friday at the age of 99 but him palace has announced his funeral will take place next saturday april 17th flags will fly at half mast until then although the palace has also not to gather people are still coming out to pay their respects and today the military

paid their tribute to the prince. gun salutes run go to across the united kingdom in honor of prince philip who died on friday at the age of $99.00 from what each barracks in london. last. called of council. and edinburgh castle. all 4 corners of the nation press the pause button for a short while to remember the prince who also held the title of the cuke of edinburgh gun salutes were also held at sea on british navy ships in honor of prince philip who served in the royal navy during the 2nd world war the prince found a special place in the public's heart. i wanted to bring my kids to a i they grow up will remember this. the royal family i will be part of the royal

so i want to come here i play all right so what i've seen just obviously from doing history in the past studied and things like that you know is absolute rock. and i enjoyed watching the cranes in the future she says of the she was a rock to her as well say i i think it's just lovely just to be near where the the atmosphere you know came to seeing all. that live a great life i am. the royal romance began 82 years ago then teenage princess elizabeth met 800000 young naval officer during an official visit to dartmouth naval college in 1939 and he just happened to also be a prince from the greek royal family joins there in a gauge minutes was announced several years later on queen elizabeth the seconds trying to 1st birthday in april 947 to

a delighted british nation the rest is history buckingham palace announced that the juke of edinburgh burial is shed yule to be held at st george's chapel in winsor. the palace also said in a statement that despite this time of sadness the coming days will be an opportunity to celebrate prince philip's remarkable life. well a 2nd look at other stories making headlines around the world meanwhile security forces have killed more than 82 protesters in the city of boggo this is northeast of young on me in mar has seen been in turmoil since military seems power in february. a child's president it is davie has held his last campaign rally ahead of sunday's presidential election debbie is expected to secure a 6th term in office x. ending his 3 decade long rule human rights organizations have accused his government of cracking down on the position in the run up to the vote. and

archaeologists in egypt have unveiled the ruins of an ancient city dating back nearly 3 and a half 1000 years the site located near the valley of the kings in luxor is the largest ever discovered in egypt experts are calling it's the most important find a since the discovery of touch income was to. germany's rightwing populous alternative for germany party is holding a convention ahead of national elections in september hundreds of the f.t. delegates meeting in person in the eastern city of dresden despite rising numbers of coronavirus cases in the country protests on taking place outside the conference the party's anti islam and to mass migration stance as well as its criticism of blocked un measures have courted controversy after internal struggles between its extreme right faction and more traditional conservatives the party leaders they are

now calling for unity. but let's cross over now to dresden and speak to simon young who is at the party convention and some of the f.d.a. is finalizing a strategy for the selection in september what are the main issues at hand for the party. you know what they've been discussing here is their campaign program which they launched last night and that's under the slogan germany but normal they're emphasizing an idea of what they see as normality a vision that includes such things as the return to compulsory military service and nuclear power and more coal fired power stations and also of course ditching the euro well many people will ask whether really that is a vision of normal germany that a lot of people want to see but the f.t. says to the other political parties don't care what ordinary people think i think

behind all the discussions here east is still a discussion a wider debate within the party about which direction whether to drift further to the right or whether to somehow try and seize the middle ground of german politics an attempt to oust the moderate leader one of the co-leaders of the alternative for germany that failed here in dresden this weekend and also an attempt by some of the delegates to make sure that this party conference would decide who would lead the party during this important election year of course federal elections in september that has failed that might have strengthened the right so there's a small victory if you like for the moderate wing of the i.a.f. day here in dresden this weekend but these internal battles they rage on we also know that the air team members have also been quite active in these and to corona demonstrations here in germany what sort of discussion do you think the pandemic

will have. i think it's played quite a quite a role here the. more it and he was talking about lockdown crazy ness and and all g patients that the government has introduced they really try to. present themselves as the party that standing up for civil rights and people's liberties it has to be said that the f.d.a. itself originally accused the medical government of of of not knowing which way to go in the pandemic and now of introducing too many lockdown so they themselves have changed their position on that and that finding young life plus their interest thank you very much signing. anderson sports news saturday's big game in the bundesliga saw 3rd play 4th as both travel to frankfurt both teams have been fined for the season as they close in on the champions league football and it was no surprise that they served up

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attending the trial and hoping for justice. journalist who know what father is on her way to the higher court in co blends or the trial has been underway for a year so far she has not missed a day in court if i say i don't know what i will hear and i don't know he will come . sometimes i'm anxious but on the other hand i know i'm going to him many sad details in this call session. or other sessions. who have other. does not yet know which witness or joint plaintive will testify today because the court is keeping the name sealed. the fear of assad's long reach is so

great that witnesses and joint plaintiffs are intimidated in the courtroom luna whose name has been changed to protect her identity is the only syrian journalist following the trial here she is doing this for all of the syrians who cannot be present for her this is not about journalistic responsibility this is they have to show me this is they're important to me because i am also a form of political prisoner from the same wallet at al cutty prison. and when the witnesses give their testimonies the stories here i also have my story in fact i'm also writing my story behind the scenes oh my gosh there. are as allegedly responsible for these accounts of torture that are being discussed in court he is charged with crimes against humanity $58.00 counts of murder torture and at least $4000.00 cases and rape is personal culpability is being tried in

copeland's but as he sits in the dock he represents the entire assad regime. was also tortured by anwar are when he was on his way to a demonstration in syria in september 20th levon he was arrested and taken to the prison a notorious torture facility where our was in charge. when i was interrogated 3 times over the course of 5 days. each time i was interrogated allegedly by a and why are what he said i am the interrogator. he gave the orders and he told others to beat me so i was beaten if mr anwar did not like my answer to a question. which define wassim tells us that he shared a 22 square meter cell with 87 other people they all took turns sleeping in a seated position security guards broke his ribs during the interrogation wassim

did not tell n y r r that he is a musician. it if you're in the interrogation i was always afraid that they would beat my hands if my hand would be broken or a finger removed or something like that it would be a disaster for me. and at this point. in my leg they always told me to lay on my stomach with it and put my feet in the air and laid on my stomach line and placed my hands beneath my chest just. in part to support my ribs because it was painful to lie on my stomach the schmetz health of them both to me. but also to protect my hands with it no matter where they hit me they didn't reach my hands. on this is all i could do besides being dead to protect them i was afraid for my hands and for my life but at least there was something i

could do about my hands. her mind and that is that was my personal kind of resistance that's why. there's only chivvied us to stop the. cross seem continues to resist today here in berlin in front of the reichstag the german parliament he and other like minded people are calling for an end of the assad regime. is playing revolutionary songs for his fellow comrades in support of a free and democratic syria. put a silence reach is long and his regime exerts a strong influence on witnesses and joint plaintiffs in germany their families who are still in syria report instances of intimidation nevertheless a seam of testified in court and human rights lawyer should monna saif says this is important. that everyone would seem more secure and he.

thought that the all that means a. monopoly and wound up equal maybe if. they were making this you know raised 1000000 fold. on the head of. the warrant you know or won't they begin to believe what more people what this theory and more they call the human courtly. be one. or the 2nd who by the time luna want to was imprisoned in a hut and war are was already gone having defected to the opposition as one of their intelligence officers applied for asylum in germany when he told the authorities about his past they arrested him under the principle of universal jurisdiction that allows a state to prosecute crimes against humanity even if the. it took place outside of

their territory and even if neither the perpetrators nor the victims are citizens of that state since then you know what far has heard and seen many cruel stories in the courtroom this was one of the most difficult moments for her. the caesar photographs pictures taken by a former syrian military photographer referred to by the family as caesar who secretly combi them while still working for the regime and later smuggled them out of the country the now in cold blood they are evidence of the assad regime's torture methods. as i said. to see victims depicted in this way without being able to change anything i can only sit behind the witnesses and record that testimony but i can't change anything in syria. and this is session was really really bad at all and never forget the faith.

in god for that i tried not to see those photos it'll take us so i guess in this particular court session. it was necessary. that's vamose luna saw the caesar photos for the 1st time shortly after they were published in 2014 during which time she was an active protester in syria and from that moment on she knew exactly what she was facing even so she continued to go to demonstrations when people were killed in a chemical weapons attack she took photos of the graves sent them abroad and was arrested. and of that sandwich of thought that an officer asked me to give him the names of others who worked with me i said there were no other this this i worked all by myself. and at that point he laughed and said. ok

you don't want to be co-operative with us so that's why i will take your kids. during the entire year that no was in prison she was afraid for her children only later did she learn that they were never arrested so. far lona it's the end of another day in court she's reporting live on the events today for the arabic channel event news and she's about to interview one of the joint plaintiffs. the la complex say many of the witnesses beforehand it was not easy for this witness to tell his story and they remember how awful things that happened and are forced to relive a bad feelings they don't want to remember. this is no you don't ask for luna with each testimony she is also reminded of her torture in prison luna wants to know what it was like for the witness today. we're getting our questions

from a german court it was also very sad to judge this guy in front of the german court . we have to judge the same person and other people in our syrian courts as well. here in berlin revolutionaries would also prefer to see the main defendant tried in a syrian court but they are confident that call blanks is at least the 1st step toward justice ideas the syrians never had a place to talk about her ideas equity or justice and now we have this opportunity because of the copelands trial the biggest that they got that for the 1st time and we actually need justice to syria among them but not just that it's that this man has committed certain crimes against syria and it's and this is the criminal trial against that man against him but not against the regime exactly but copeland's is very important because this case represents the whole government the whole syrian

government is a criminal i agree because it's systematic not an isolated case the at the 1st step but i'm hopeful this me to be true. i didn't know what it. was even and the other revolutionaries hope assad will also have to stand trial at some point some of the people here are sure that the trial is already leaving its mark on syria and the lawyer on maher albany is one of them he has helped prepare many of the lawsuits but i am sure. this day separately i. am sure the crimean that's now. up to. him would be. in the. room with the wife. on the other hand doesn't believe the trial has changed anything in syria so far.

here at home in copeland's she jots down her thoughts from the courtroom and marks the locations of mass graves on maps luna who has asylum has been in germany since 2015 she and her children are safe here and that makes her happy the trial in koblenz is changing her life. is i think about what has happened to other prisoners in syria all the time. for example what happened to the women who were in my cell. so that was their fate. and i don't know. the regime is still torturing tens of thousands of syrians you know what is documenting this process for them to so that she can say we did not stand idly by while this happened.

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