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like my answer to a question. or. survivors are also attending the trial and hoping for justice. journalist who know what father is on her way to the higher reaches court in co blends where 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 cause. sometimes i'm anxious but on the other hand i know i'm going to him and he said details in this call session. or other court session this. whole end of the. luna 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 a fish dish this is they're important to me because i am also a form of political prisoner from the same wallet at al qa t. 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 they. 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 in 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 n y r r 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 and mark karr was in charge. of the i was interrogated 3 times over the course of 5 days a year that each time i was interrogated allegedly by and why are what he said i am the interrogator. it's been good if he gave the orders and he told others to beat me so i was beaten if mr and water did not like my acid to a question was just good fun. 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 differ 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. my leg they always told me to lay on my stomach with it and put my feet in the air so i laid on my stomach and placed my hands beneath my chest. in part to support my ribs because it was painful to lie on my stomach the health of them both. but also to protect my hands with it no matter where they hit me they didn't reach my hands. on the it was 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. mine a hand at this and that was my personal kind of resistance that's why. there's only chivvied us to stop. for a scene 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 cmos testified in court and human rights lawyer should monitor saif says this is important. that everyone would claim for sure and he now. they're going to let me say. that in the and wound up people who maybe if. they were making this you know raised on the winning goal was to fall on the head of. the wall are going to know or want to begin to be a wide more evolved what they really and more. for the human court raising. to be one. or the 2nd who by the time luna watchful was imprisoned in the hut and more are was already gone having defected to the opposition as one of their intelligence officers be 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 photograms pictures taken by a former syrian military photographer referred to by the family as caesar who secretly copied them while still working for the regime and later smuggled them out of the country now in cold blood they are evidence of the assad regime's torture methods. so i was there 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 the shin was really really bad i will never forget the photos. example that i tried not to see those photos as a tool because i guess in this particular court session. it was necessary. that's why most owners 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 its enemies get caught over there an officer asked me to give him the names of others who worked with me i said there were no other is this i worked

all by myself. and at that point he loved often 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 luna 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. take 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 muna with each testimony she is also reminded of her torture in prison you

know wants to know what it was like for the witness today. we're getting of 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 copeland's is at least the 1st step toward justice ideas the syrians never had a place to talk about our ideas equity or justice and now we have this opportunity because of the copelands trial to get the big fish 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 syrians and this is the criminal trial against that man against again 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 systematic not an isolated case is the at the 1st step but i'm hopeful that maybe to peter. i think that it. was even 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 anwar albany is one of them he has helped prepare many of the lawsuits but i am sure they do this day separately i. am sure the crimean that is now did not see it there would be. in the. right.

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. as 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. service their fate. and i don't know nobody no use. the regime is still torturing tens of thousands of syrians no one is documenting this process for them to so that she can say we did not stand

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and welcome to austria today we're going to have a look at this 10 direct x. effect. the goal of all x e 40 isn't exactly a new car is compact and see the claimed the european car of the year trophy in 2018 and its fresh looks made the swedish best seller a real crowd pleaser. you can also choose a contrast in roof color to make your car really stand out. well what's new about the x e 40 it's the end of the engines to be precise because he developed the $5000.00

and is the 1st plug in hybrid power train for this car according to w t p tests it only needs around 2 to 2.5 liters per 100 kilometers which almost almost sounds too good to be true. if. the plug in hybrid combines a $180.00 horsepower 3 cylinder gasoline engine with a 60 challenge electric motor and front wheel drive hybrid drive trains always add weight to a car thanks to the 2 engines and the battery and at 1900 kilos the x e 40 is no exception. if price quite right but you can feel the weight now the exit for me has never been a review of speeding on a star you definitely can feel the polish when you stop exhilarating but with around 7.3 seconds from 0 to 100 but this type of combination. when you when you

raise. that speed was never the point of this valvo what it's aiming for is fuel economy. the hybrid system the driving wants them to be hybrids and power in pure you're all electric driving meaning the car is on the he was in electric and it's good for $34.00 up to 125 for every age and the range of the number but with white lies when you're mostly driving in the city after that when the battery is everything you cram plug it in then charge it up or you with me and for the combustion engine to get the batteries some additional juice in the hybrid the system tries to combine both engines in the most effective way it's probably the more you would drive the most in when you're outside the 30th the more we are going to be with most of the time and then there's the performance

mode where both engines are running in parallel all the time to give you the maximum performance for whenever you feel the need for. the science the 3 driving modes the x e 40 offers a whole range of safety systems. has always been at the forefront of driver safety . engineer kneels ball and invented the 3 point seat belts for the car maker back in 1959 german patent office named the belts one of the 8 inventions that most benefited humankind during 100 years and a new 985. with head side a neat airbags of all the x e 40 scored top marks in the euro and c.a.p crash test. emergency brake assist and active lane keeping assist come standard. class cross traffic alert warns you of vehicles approaching from the side and braking support automatically applies the

brakes in order to avoid a collision. but there's one problem i've got with all the safety systems and that's not the systems themselves they work pretty much flawlessly it's the way you control them because. the activate the systems they have to do so through the infotainment stream they are menus on top of menu with even more menus and i don't know maybe it's just personal preference and after a week or so of driving the car you will eventually master the system but personally i don't really like. ok so the user interface of the info 10 that system might need an overhaul but what about fuel consumption. for me any countryside probably isn't the best territory to achieve from some sums that are close to being 2.5 to 100

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generations can look forward to and i like to have a city where i don't need to worry about. all of the machines and i have what do we do to improve the way we move in our cities for what is for a smart join us on a journey where architects engineers and activists face up to the challenges of our future urban mobility. traffic chaos. worldwide every day. there are some 47000000 cars on germany's roads enough for 2 of the 3 adults to be driving at the same time. that's the highest level ever in berlin alone 87000 new cars were registered in 2019 despite growing traffic problems. a city with lots of public transport with ok bicycle. and we see all the cost next to the universe the boating people like the students we have free public transport

and they come by car and i think that's not good. all over the world urban traffic pollution is choking us of the air we need to brief the. people around the world are demanding change. now after more than 100 years is the cars dominance of our ever more crowded cities finally coming to an end to broaden and why among his part the scurrilous and nobody has the freedom to live in the city in a way and the future of the cities is the future of mobility in a new way. the global design studio graphed is developing visions of our future urban mobility. 'd its founders last cook a bag and thomasville are specialists in urban planning and sustainable architecture they expect future generations to have far more choice in how they

move around their cities. the child all of us. will probably walk quite. some distance because of the neighborhoods. with too much traffic jump on a car maybe that leads then to a connection that probably will turn that child into the air and landed right on the working place. of flying taxis could be a spectacular urban upgrade but probably not for the masses the biggest changes will affect cars especially our own private ones of which there are more than $1000000000.00 worldwide. there will be no baldry anymore between public transportation and individual traffic of the separation of both through the cities that we see today. but what could take the place of private cars and emissions free

highly flexible public transport system. our urban mobility could depend on vehicles like the move or the tech underpinning the move or comes from a german company. it's meant to demonstrate how one platform can fulfill many needs . for us to move or could be used for the transport of people as well as very slight modifications for the transport of goods during daylight traffic transport of people and during the my transport of goods whatever. in germany car sit unused for 23 hours a day on average each wasting about 12 square meters in parking space. that's as big as the typical german child's bedroom. in the u.s. cities like houston are struggling to overcome decades of urban planning that is given more space to cars than anything else but not really the more you have

reduced the dimensions of the vehicle of course we achieved that by moving the drive units into the wheels themselves placing the technical components as far into the corners as possible to make more interior space years a ball. and that frees up space on the roads of the. shrinking vehicle footprints are just one part of shufflers mobility vision. this award winning prototype can carry 4 people to their destination cleanly autonomous li inflexibly and. the city would drastically change as we share mobility if it is public or private leaving the possibility for the city to come back to the people meaning we need less parking spots. we basically need the cars or the planes or the drones whatever it is too long

so we need new spaces. transportation. in the near future digital networking will drive our mobility. shufflers idea foresees people using autonomous vehicles from a fleet working 247. these multi-functional emissions free vehicles to transport people and goods or provide services by sharing the vehicles people could free up huge areas of space previously dedicated to parking but are we really ready to have robots driving everywhere. i need guns because of who it is the one major hurdle is legal vehicles like that are not really covered by the current legislation we'll have to make many adjustments to legal frameworks and the lack of legal security surrounding autonomous vehicles is putting the brakes on development. is done to you because you have but can we really afford to lose any more time. to

generations of young people who will inherit our cities are already looking for quick and direct ways of improving our urban lives now we're going to do 2 things firstly politically we can challenge all politicians like we want to have a city where we want to live in where we don't. i'm talking about everywhere. you go everywhere and i'm not afraid better collar hit us secondly we can do it ourselves we can take the bicycle to our university to school with them by pos for the metro for the underground and we can take a partner consol. the german city of our sport is trying to get cars out of the city by offering free public transport in the central zone. since january 2020 people can also take out a mobility subscription that gives them unlimited access to the city's fleet of bikes and cars the package costs around 3 years 50 per day. it's one change among

many that are needed. we need an overall traffic management as well as the infrastructure as well as a payment system a ticket system and things like this of course future mobility has to be affordable it might pay for itself with and it's like the internet does these days. just imagine that's driving all mobility is actually clean and for free why because it's the 3rd place where you can work with driving as you know it's automatic you don't have to take care of that it's shared with other people it's connected so basically the people that run advertisements in these to places while you're working they pay for the right so i think a city where we don't have costs. has much more space for our troops. has much more space for the people and i think city with all costs can have a lot more opportunities and honestly with calls. a city without cars for many

people that's hard to imagine. but things are beginning to move in that direction the question is what do we want to do with the space when the cars have gone. we discuss on that topic. and then use these you could be i'm a texan. 27 years. i've not been easy been. i have 4 children 3 boys and. my wife and you. know that. you go to movies from time to go to go and get.

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