is back on the red carpet and back in people's lives. that is your news update at this hour. stay tuned for a quarter and dw investigative team to look into the kidnapping year in human rights activists. don't forget, there is always more on our website, d, w dot com. i've been in berlin for me in the team here. thank you so much for joining the the ben december. 2019. the european councils president show me shows embarked on a ground breaking mission. i had a clear job to make europe the 1st time. jennings on the planet by 2015 in new member states supported and some persuasion is required. so surprising glimpse into the very heart of

our difficult when the game of diplomatic poker, the entry power plays and the lines is behind the scenes of the summit starts august, 5th on d, w. the ah me, her dream was for a democratic and just syria. my name is president, it's me. you on right from the law. oh, as a lawyer she documented the atrocities of the syrian war that made her enemy on all sides happening. i just want the truth. i want to know what happened to resign, and my friends in 2013 resign i was kidnapped along with 3

colleagues by unidentified assailant. duction was the turning point in the searing resolution for the investigative unit delved deep into the case. we spoke with dozens of witnesses, analyze, satellite imagery and combed through interrogation records to show that not only did the assad regime target activists but a rebel group did to me. hours search begins and paris. we meet nadeem, hoody hooley led the terrorism program and human rights watch when we uprising against the assad regime began in 2011 creat involved . he was in close contact with verizon,

who was organizing protests across syria. she became a key source. she had this sort of softness, almost frailty, to her when you met her at the beginning and you're like how she doing this very dangerous job. and then as soon as you spoke to her, you immediately discovered the sort of steely courage and principles. the assad regime launched in brutal cracks in against the protesters and arrested corps of opposition. figures with non course into hiding. but she continued to speak out while underground, not even over 100000 board harsh. each part of the big trail of the international communities can ever defeat the people who had the dream and say in the future.

in 2013 resign fled a tight grip and damascus for neighboring duma. the town was under the control of various arms opposition groups. together they fought assad, but often each other to the hard line militia group, j, islam increasingly had the upper hand. the duma was the last place. resigned with fema lies. the search for clues brings us to turkey. is simple. we meet with a close friend and colleague of resign. she fled with her to duma. osama the star, it tells us it was pure luck that he was not kidnapped with her. he had just left their office only a few minutes before the abduction. to this day, he wondered whether he could have done more to find his friend. the arrival in duma, he said, was not easy. particularly due to the armed opposition group,

jason lam. saddles that they felt threatened by. we were in the field of human rights and we documented human rights abuses. we wanted promote democracy and human rights. now women change, i'll just move on to dance. when they told them i read it, but the activists were not deterred. they continued to push for a flourishing civil society. the resign also began investigating harrowing claims against the hard line militia that the pained and tortured civilians in its prison. i remember that she insisted on visiting the detention facilities that were run by asia. and she would go, i mean, if anyone who knew or that she could be insistent, you know, she, she just really knew no fear. after resigns, life was threatened,

armed men shot in the or outside her office and left a threatening letter on her doorstep. leave duma in 3 days or i will kill you. the phrase was repeated 5 times. the investigation is only through our sources and syria. we identify the author of the threat letter in a statement we obtained exclusively, he speaks about how a g 's islam associate instructed him to threaten resign. and what one to media told me that this girl is an agent could have brought us to court on charges, or i told him if she was an agent and working against the country, why don't you do something? why don't you kidnap her? are you afraid of her? he said, no, we are not afraid of her. we will bring her down, but now we want to threaten her. even when the dean hoodie learned about the threats he urged,

resolved to leave duma. he was worried for her safety. i mean, there's just, she responded the next day saying, i am not going to move. we did not do a revolution, lose thousands of souls so that such monsters can come and repeat the same in just history. nice people need to be held to account, just like the regime. under simper 9th 2013 armed men stormed her office late at night, they kidnapped was on along with her husband hummadi, human rights activists, samira and lawyer museum hummadi. the latter was on the phone with his brother when the kidnappers arrived minimal non, while they were talking about his brother, heard loud noise and someone shouted in to the classical arabic. i believe to be enemies of god. or nauseum replied, i do calm down one of them. this is not going yes above my head. then the line went

dead well by them. oh sama shows us photos from the crime scene. drawers are ransacked, and files and computers taken. this will soon lead us to the 1st clue. one of the stolen computers can be traced to an ip address used by j. s. l a slam. back for they were, they were later. they were other leads. he tells us, but no one would earnestly pursue them. and none of the other armed rebel groups would come to aid the activists. they didn't do anything. ok, was scared, scared of a confrontation with jason alazam. the kidnapping of who has on for me announced the moment where the higher the arm of the sort of armed uprising dominated to this day. the hardline rebel group denies that they couldn't have to resign. we searched for former members of j. lawn,

who now live in turkey. in the process, we establish contact with the men who investigated the kidnapping on their behalf. he is willing to meet with us, but would only do on condition of anonymity. if i investigated the kidnapping on behalf of jason august law, i think they wanted to clear themselves. but as i gathered more and more evidence that implicated them, they suddenly started threatening me. and so i had to plead. he said that many witnesses were threatened and even murdered by the group, and that jayce alice lum, helped the main suspect flea after he was detained. he is convinced they are guilty . i'm 100 percent sure that jay holla salon is responsible for the kidnapping. but the most important clue, the testimony of a young woman she had met resigned in a prison run by the rebel group only a few months after the kidnapping,

minnow assemblage. and we had heard the name of sunday to know what they once brought her to an interrogation. i do want to know, but she refused, so they beat her and she fainted. they asked us to bring her back into her so much as when she woke up with no, i saw her green eyes and she was tall and slim, weedy when a have it like him in the family? a couple friends on the back in berlin, we find another witness who also saw resign. and just as long as the prison on the 2nd to how much that we investigate both accounts using satellite imagery, they show that resign was held on the premises of a repurposed agricultural facility in the center of duma. the so called l talbert. prison is controlled by only one group chase. so i really think that it's that too, and we have to syria to confront the islamic militia with our findings. spokesman,

hands about actor is willing to speak to us without conditions. he denies any involvement in the kidnapping, and instead blames the assad regime and other g hottest groups. we meet him in northern syria where islam remains active in his office. we confront him with the testimony of our witnesses, who saw resign fortuna in their prison. his answer is short, they are all liars. he claims that they never had any of the activists in their custody. couldn't many day a malicious lamp, a little lever claim. jason, on this law is responsible rodonna who needs disappearance is not being in marshall . rather, they're taking a holistic dana to acute jason, there's not any loosely, if people who make suddenly claim to be do not want to reveal the true and more unveiled perpetrator. and then our head of it is

a political place to accuse this mom of kidnapping and activists and civilians. and with me. and i will not sure when i will have him. meanwhile, french authorities are also investigating al islam for alleged war crimes and have even arrested a senior member of the group. in paris, we meet with theory and human rights lawyer, muslim doorways. together with lawyer came on backtock, they have filed criminal charges for their findings implicate the rebel group. the only problem is proving it in a court of law to serve in regime. and they said the slam still have a lot of power or an influence and capacity to intimidate and threatened the victims and the witnesses. so this really is a major concern for us because any prosecution, successful prosecution will also have to rely on this kind of testimonial evidence day and night work to track down. other witnesses include,

the hope of the court will soon issue an indictment in a case that is no longer fully about resign disappearance, but also about torture, summary executions and the use of child soldiers. it is time to, to say out loud that the syrian population has also been victims of other groups who pretended to be fighting for the revolution, but to also turned against the population. this was what was alerting about. and this was why maybe she died and we think that it's also as a heritage to her and to the many others who had the courage to say this, that is very important. so continue the me, i guess

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capital to realize that project copy time on that on that the most was remote inclusion and maybe even reinventing too much, i think it doesn't always have to be for wheelchair uses that can be vice versa, non disabled people to get the place and dance. welcome to the ref. check today's car. la hon. they 2000. let's go wait a 2nd. did the cow really just drive on its own? who did, and the key to that is the key. but we'll talk about that in a minute. the new tucson is available with 3 different electric

drive trains and 2 combustion engines. the electric hodges and 48 volt models. hybrids are they with the diesel or gasoline engine, a plugin hybrid, and a full hybrid which we are testing today. the tooth and comes with $230.00 horsepower will make the dash from 0 to 100 kilometers now and around 8 seconds. that's okay. not the fastest, but i've also seen flow on the hybrid is always equipped with a 6 speed, automatic transmission general driving impression in the tooth and it's really pleasant. i mean, it is rather sporty for an f u v. so. busy if you're driving a curve faster, you don't have the impression that they call will roll over the pieces of arrive safety and the system systems for someone to send to airbag between driver and passenger. let's quickly talk about the hybrid drive,

train it features 1.49 kilowatt hour battery. crazy. with that you will go a few 100 meters, purely electric. well, that's not what it's made for it to support the combustion engine and provide the fin fuel consumption games and ever it's going $75.00 leaders while we were driving we had little more than 6 leaders, but that's still okay for a car that is rather high and therefore has a rather high air resistance. now that we've gone through the basics, let's get back to the magically sells, moving comp, the features called remote smart parking, and enables to drive it to move forward and backward with the key. in case you ever wondered what your call looks like while it's driving from the outside, that's just the call for you. but of course that feature is not made for that it's

made for parking. so if you find a parking space and it's not wide enough to get off the car, take your heat and then let the car drive in. that feature is only available for the hybrid version since the car will drive purely electric during that time. what i really like about the new lay tooth and is it's design. i mean it's really striking in the grid right here with the integrated l a. the daytime running lights . you don't see them if they're not on. but if i put them on now you will see those are just the same shape as the radiator grill, which is pretty cool. and especially if you compare them with the older to some models, you would not recognize this as a tooth. and, but i really, really like it. the little island, the rear is also very nice. i like the tail lights. endless. drive here. what i wonder when i 1st saw the car is where is no rear window wiper, isn't it half one?

yes it has. it is hidden under the spoiler right here will come down like this and then wipe your window. the space in the bag right here is pretty decent. there's a lot of head room just like you would expect from an s u v. like room with ok as well as seats and how little bit hard but not uncomfortable. so it's okay as well. i guess you can sit here with 3 or maybe rather 2 and a half people because anyone who has ever sat on a real bench with 3 adults knows it's small. i fitted for 2 and a half people been carry a featured fully digital configure. the skews consists of a new 10 points, 5 inch open, digital cluster hands and the 10.25 inch touch screen in the middle.

if you regularly dr. hi, this is on the autobahn. you should not choose the hybrid version of houston, because then it will start to drink very much. we're talking about 9 leaders, but 100 kid. and that's too much for call that side me just like it's rather from another mother, the kia sorento that using features side view camera that activate, once you use the indicator. so depending on which side you want to go, you will see the picture and the display, and then realize if there's someone driving next to you, which is especially interesting on the highway or the audubon citizens are available with all wheel drive, which makes them suitable for offering use as well. of course you will want to take it easy on the car as it's not designed to climb wrong, like

a tree. but it is definitely capable of dealing with your average gravel road for some major pothole the. but the best part about the tucson is does 5 year unlimited mileage warranty or choose so my final verdict on the new, on lay tooth and it is a very decent car. and if you consider that the entry level of price cause such a car is just over $26000.00 euros. that's a really good price for all the things you get. in comparison, the b w t go on, starts at over 28000 euros, and you won't get 5 years of warranty on that one. and what's more important, a lot of features, the one they have as serious standard do commerce extra. and the tiguan to set it up. the tucson is a ca, with a very appealing to design and up to date,

interior entities and consumption. the only minor weakness is the hybrid inability to drive long distances in purely electric mode. for that, you will have to choose the plug in hybrid version ram, which is the plenty of energy to keep on rolling until the next episode. think driving, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose .

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