>> live from the dw studios in berlin, this is your world news. >> good to have you with us. our top stories at this hour -- a jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage. islamic state releases video timing to show its latest act of revenge against the west. >> another lone attack on french security forces -- three soldiers stabbed in niece. >> claims of genocide dismissed in the balkan wars. >> jordan has just confirmed a pilot kidnapped by islamic state has been killed. earlier, the jihadist group

posted the video online which showed the man being burned alive. >> he was captured in late december after his jet crashed over northern syria. relatives and supporters show their solidarity and jordan plus capital. islamic state threatened to kill the pilot unless they handed over a jailed is rock -- a jailed failed suicide bomber. >> let's get the latest on this from a middle east analyst live on the line from oman. we know the jordanian king has cut short his visit to the u.s.. what is the sentiment? >> there is anger. people are calling for revenge not only the family and tribes but the reaction of everyone. the way the captured pilot was killed was so unacceptable for devout muslims, for human

beings, for everyone. what are they doing? it's not -- are they pretending to be god and sending someone to help and burning him alive. the images were so difficult for everybody to see. >> you mentioned calls for revenge. jordan's participation in this campaign against islamic state has never been popular in jordan. is that changing? >> i am sure this will be another problem jordan will have to face but at the time being, i don't think jordan is talking much of the fact that jordan is in the coalition -- rather at manner in which the hostage was killed and the army in a statement has said revenge will be at the level of the disaster jordan is facing. information is the would be bomber another condemned to

death operative would be executed as quickly as today. these were already condemned to death. i hope that this does not go out of hand because jordan should not be react like isis, but thinking of the people they are condemning. >> there are no estimated 1500 jordanians fighting for islamic state. what is being done inside jordan to prevent this type of radicalization? >> i think the number could be much more than 1500. the borders are very tight and they are making sure these people never come back. they are having a lot of internal intelligence that is quite strong in this country trying to trace whatever sign that somebody could be joining

isis and they are being stopped and they are being arrested. most probably, this is on a daily basis. >> thank you very much. >> moving on to other news now and at least two soldiers have been wounded in an attack on the southern french city of nice. >> a man with a knife hidden in his bag attacked three soldiers in front of a jewish community center. the suspect was arrested shortly after. troops had been controlling the center as part of increased nationwide security after attacks in paris last month. through -- we asked our correspondent in paris to give us some details on the background to this attack. >> as you know, since the killings and hostagetaking in a coaster supermarket jewish

schools and centers and synagogues are under protection in france as part of the antiterrorist plan. this is in the city of nice in the french riviera. this man wielding a huge knife 20 centimeters in length attacked three soldiers holding guard in front of the community center that have both religious and nonreligious activities in it. they have defended themselves and they have been slightly injured with cuts on their arms and on their face, but they are already out of hospital. the man was arrested by them and one or two citizens there made a citizen's arrest with the military. meanwhile, what we know about this man is he comes from corsica. he took a one-way ticket to turkey and was signaled to the turkish authorities who thought it was suspicious.

he was sent back immediately on the next flight and was not admitted to turkey. when he got back, he was interrogated by police but he did not tell them anything that gave grounds to arrest them. they knew who he was but they let him go free. >> the greek prime minister is in rome as he continues his tour of the european capitals. he wants to persuade eu leaders to change the terms of the greek bailout. >> he is due to hold talks with the italian prime mr. and was accompanied by the greek finance minister. he met his italian counterpart. in a newspaper interview, he announced greece had abandoned its plans to have its debt counts -- it's that canceled and was proposing a debt swap where payments art tied to economic growth. >> let's go now to our reporter

standing outside the prime ministers office in rome. these two gentlemen, they have a lot to talk about, but i'm wondering what kind of support italy can offer greece right now? >> the italian prime minister made it clear today that he was throwing his weight behind his bid to find some way out of greece cost that crisis. he took the opportunity here in rome to say he was looking for a solution and would accept alternatives that greece has thown out recently. it is another reassuring signal from the greeks that they are not going to play hardball and would be prepared to meet their creditors on middle ground. it was also stressed that there

is a need to play by the rules. what he was referring to there was a possible greek temptation to open the floodgates on spending and reverse all austerity policies in greece. in this sense, he is offering himself as a broker who can support the greeks and put in some wise words on behalf of europe. italian officials are saying greece owes us 40 billion euros so we're not going to stand by and let all of those debts be forgotten. >> you mentioned the cautionary position right now because italy has its own share of economic problems. they are different from greece but certainly the problems are there. >> that's right. italy is struggling to escape from a pretty horrible recession that has a lot of the same problems as greece.

they have an enormous public debt and has problems with corruption and tax evasion. however, italy has showed some signs of emerging from this crisis and i think greece will be looking to present themselves as a way to lead the way out and show how it can be done. >> thank you very much. one european capital new greek leaders have yet to visit is right here, berlin. >> the governing series of party -- governing parties often >> and now it appears he is coming to berlin on thursday and will hold talks with the german finance minister on the debt crisis. collects the german chancellor and her finance minister have not commented officially on the new proposals from athens.

but lawmakers and the ruling coalition of christian democrats and social democrats say the debt conditions are clear and there's little room for maneuver will stop -- little room for maneuver. >> we have agreements with trees, the country, not the government. these agreements have to be cap denied to like the tone from athens. this is not a way of behaving in europe. >> if it is about boosting growth in greece and promoting investment, we have to show solidarity. but solidarity is not a one-way street. >> germany's opposition left party is a change of course. it says the austerity measures are clearly not working. >> she has failed. the chancellor does not want to admit this. nor does the spd, but they are going to have to admit it stop >> the german finance minister

will meet with his new greek counterpart in berlin later this week. >> u.s. officials are considering whether to ship weapons to ukraine as key of battles rebels. >> or has been no definitive word from washington yet, but officials are reportedly stepping up efforts to convince its allies to help. >> troops are locked in a fierce battle for control in the east. the violence has escalated in the death toll is mounting will stop -- death toll is mounting. >> her house was destroyed overnight by a rocket, not much remains but at least she got to safety in time will stop -- to safety in time. >> things were flying, shrapnel, everything. the whole house burn down. all we have left are the close on our backs. >> the battle between soldiers

continue to escalate and dozens of people, including civilians have been killed in the last two days alone. a report by former members of the u.s. government and military has urged the united states to supply arms to the ukrainian army but the u.s. government stresses no decision has been made. >> i don't think anybody wants to get into a proxy war with russia and that's not the objective. our objective is to change the behavior of russia. >> but the german chancellor says arms shipments are not the way to handle the problem. >> germany will not send ukraine any deadly lethal weapons as i said yesterday. we are focusing on a diplomatic solution in the foreign ministers have made clear if the situation gets even worse it will be necessary to work on further sanctions.

>> diplomatic efforts to find a cease-fire have so far failed to produce lasting results. right now, the battle was focused on one strategic town or separatists are reportedly trying to encircle ukrainian forces. >> we ask our political correspondent to tell us more about germany's point. >> germany is adamantly opposed to any initiative to send weapons to ukraine, including defensive weapons. commentators have said this would amount to a declaration of war against russia. angela merkel has made her position clear just ahead of her visit to washington. her foreign minister has come out with what many commentators would say is a typically german pacifist statement on this saying and i'm quoting --

"effective political solutions always come at the negotiating table and never through the barrel of a gun." people in germany are aware russia has been strongly backing the separatists in eastern ukraine and people are concerned about that. at the same time, people want to see whether the sanctions regime might have an impact. they believe it is having an impact on russian banks, businesses and consumers. there are others who say it -- you see it very differently and safe we don't do more to back ukraine, we will face the consequences. >> just to recap the top story -- jordan has confirmed it is a jordanian pilot shown in a video by islamic state thing burned to death. >> he was captured in late december when his jet crashed over syria. the u.s. and jordan have condemned the killing. >> when we come back, we will talk about the decision by the british parliament about

genetics and babies. >> with each passing day with the continuing conflict in syria, more and more children fear their future may be fading away. with every classroom damaged or destroyed, with every child witnessing the horror of war every family fleeing the violence we cannot risk losing an entire generation of children to death fear and despair because they are the future of

syria. >> welcome back. it is being called a landmark in historic ruling -- the u.n.'s top court has decided neither croatian or serbia committed genocide against each other as populations. >> this is during the balkans were of the 1990's. the president of the international court of justice ruled although each had committed crimes during the conflict the intent to read genocide had not been proven against either country. >> the cases were part of the long legal fallout from the violent breakup of yugoslavia in which tens of thousands of people were killed. >> for three months, the yugoslav army and servant rebels besieged a city to the serbian border. after town fell, more than 20,000 non-serbs were expelled from the city. a brutal conflict, but not

genocide, according to the courts. the court dismissed serbia's countercharges. neither side prove the acts committed during the four-year war were done with the intent to commit genocide. for decades, croatia and serbia along to the single state of yugoslavia. but in 1991, the republic began to collapse. around 20,000 people were killed in the resulting war with croatia. i serbia has welcomed the courts ruling. >> unthinking such a decision is going to start a blank and much better page in our bilateral relations between serbia and croatia. >> but the croatian side were less satisfied with the decision. >> if you speak about this part of our history it is duty of everyone to prosecute and

investigate all war crimes. we expect these proceedings will go on and serbia as well. >> the decision is final and an appeal is not possible. >> britain's parliament has voted to allow a groundbreaking in venture -- in vitro fertilization technique that lets scientists create babies with dna from three people. >> the technique is called mitochondrial donation and it's supposed to prevent the transmission of genetically inherited diseases. >> the legislation is controversial. as divided campaigners against religious leaders. >> 382, the nose to the left, 128. >> the approval cleared the way for a revolution reproductive medicine. it is good news for families like the holidays, the mutation

in the mother's mitochondria has left their daughter with a life-threatening condition. >> you can see she is very floppy. she cannot hold her head up. effectively, she's dying and it's a matter of time before that affects the brain stem. >> mitochondria are tiny energy generating structures found outside the nuclear -- outside the nucleus of cells. when they are faulty, mutations can be passed down. scientists in britain have found the way to transfer the egg with defective mitochondria into a healthy donor. the egg contains the parents nuclear material and a healthy egg from the donor. >> if someone is anemic, you can replace the red cells because they cannot function proper way. you are replacing mitochondria, so transfusion which would allow

them to use energy wisely. the only difference is this is passed on to the next generation. ask those in favor say the technique does not change the baby's genetic makeup. >> this is not genetic modification. we're not altering the nucleus we are not altering the 50% of genes that come from each parent stop it is .54% of the genome. >> opponents say it crosses a fundamental more in line -- fundamentally moral line. >> creating a new child essentially opening the way to determining the type of person who is born is a very difficult ethical boundary to cross all stop >> the vote has come too late for jessica holiday, but it will give her parents the chance to have a second child free of her condition. >> joining us in the studio to talk about this huge announcement is our science

correspondent, derek williams. we are talking about a person created from the dna of three people. kelly talking about two mothers and a father? >> that is exactly what we are talking about in the long run. there is nuclear dna, which is the vast amount of dna, but there's also mitochondrial dna. the mitochondria are batteries inside of yourself. they are responsible for coding for energy supply. you have a serious problem. >> that's coming from the third person. >> the way that it works is if you are a woman, it's important to understand mitochondria are passed along from the mothers stop the mitochondria in your body all came from your mother originally. what do you do if you are a woman with a pre-genetic

disposition to produce faulty mitochondria? there's a way to help those women now and what you can do is a kind of cellular transplant retake the dfa inside the nucleus and transplanted to an egg from a donor. at that moment, you have a nucleus that contains dna from one woman and mitochondria from a second woman. add the father and you've got three parents. >> the fear is we could be heading toward genetically modified babies. is that fear justified? >> that's a completely different technology. this is a kind of cellular transplant they are doing. changing eye color or hair color, that's happening on the nuclear level, the vast amount of dna inside the nucleus. this is not really about that. it's about helping women who have this genetic predisposition

have happy and healthy babies. it's not even the first step on a slippery slope and british lawmakers agree. >> thank you for explaining this. >> saudi arabia's nuking has been in power for just 12 days but has already signaled what could be a shift to the right. >> he has dismissed two clerks were relatively liberal and build out millions in bonus payments to citizens that could be considered buying political support. >> a lot of questions or main about how king salman will move forward. the biggest challenge he faces is security. >> the saudi border fence -- 836 kilometers of barriers on high-tech surveillance designed to stop unwelcome people from entering the country. the saudi's are worried about terrorists, militants and training from a rack. for islamic state fighters tried to cross the border and were killed by security forces.

>> we urgently need international cooperation to restrict the extremists and neutralize the threat they play -- the threat they represent. there is no compassion for this group that spills the blood of innocent people. >> saudi special forces train daily. if -- the islamic state fighters were saudi citizens. the problem -- the country is long been battling the problem of homegrown extremism. saudi's have financed terrorism around the world. they probably show a center where extremists are rehabilitated. only those who have not killed anyone and up here. those who have killed someone are executed. officials hope time at the center will turn them away from a path of violence, but some who have left center are fighting in syria.

>> we should expect something to happen, but when we look to the majority, we are succeeding and we should not look to those 30% and forget the 80% of stop >> saudi arabia is an ultraconservative state that follows sharia law. their public beheadings and gender segregation is a part of everyday life will stop but some say the problem of extremism is a matter for the military to deal with. >> we have to solve this problem through increased security. that includes the use of force. it's the job of the interior ministry. >> for the last year, saudi arabia has had a strict anti-terror law, but opposition act list are wary of it will stop -- wary of it. >> this law is so broad that anything to be tried as terrorism. that makes it a very dangerous situation for human rights

activists. >> they say the government cannot fight terrorism with weapons alone. >> one person has been in charge of saudi arabia for as long as we can or member. many people don't want that anymore. we want to take part in the democratic process and if the democratic will of the young people is not taken into account, it will end badly. >> some analysts say saudi arabia is not only attempting to seal itself off from extremists, but also warding off political change from within. all in the name of protecting itself from terror. >> back here in germany prosecutors have indicted an 18-year-old man accused of causing the death of a female student in western germany. >> she came to the defense of two teenage girls being harassed by men a fast food restaurant when she was hit on the head and tell to the ground. she died of her injuries 10 days later.

the 23-year-old has been hailed as a role model for trying to help others. >> if you like more on any of our stories, go to our webs. -- good to our website, dw.de. >> thank you for watching "journal."

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