>> live from the dw studios here in berlin, this is your world news. sarah: great to have you with us. coming up in the next half-hour -- rep: will there be a late-night deal on the greek debt crisis? the great prime minister scheduled to meet with leaders of france and germany this evening -- the greek prime minister. sarah: the white house increases pressure on islamic state. we go to washington for more. brett: and big band leader james brass has died. people all over the world enjoyed his easy listening happy

music. well, the leaders of germany and france have agreed to meet the greek prime minister in brussels this evening. sarah: it could be the last chance to rescue greece. brett: bailout money for athens runs out this month. sarah: it looks like an impasse will be going to brussels, but those leaders are meeting in just a moment. we begin with the story. >> the european commission president and eu president opened the summit. the greek prime minister was also on hand. much of the focus is expected to be on greece's economic crisis as marathon talks between the crisis ridden country and eu

continue. the german chancellor made clear the goal was to remain in the eurozone. >> am always guarded in such matters. where this a will, there's a way. work needs to be done with the three institutions. every day counts. >> greece has struggled for months. creditors advocate further cuts intentions and an increase. they are increasingly skeptical of athens' latest reform proposals. the greek prime minister will meet france's president on the sidelines of the summit. >> my advice is to work hard and quickly at this summit and find a solution. >> he also held talks with argentina's prime minister, who represents a country which defaulted on its debt twice in 13 years. brett: let's go to max hoffman

who was on the story for us at that meeting in brussels. do we have confirmation that this meeting is going to definitely take place? max: it's going to take place after dinner, so that's about in 90 minutes, but we also know the german chancellor also met cyprus' prime minister for a short bilateral meeting. no word on what they talked about, but we can guess it was about the greek price -- the greek crisis. he also met with commissioner yunker and it shows you that in spite of what has been said, that there's no basis for talks or anything, these leaders are trying hard to find the next step toward saving greece. brett: what is that next step yet when the eu flatly rejected the latest greek plans to reform the economy just 24 30 six hours ago. what is there to talk about except for greece moving towards the eu?

max: that would be the position of the creditors. many people see that entirely differently, but what we just heard in the report, the difficult points are for example the pension system. that's something that's going to be a hard not to crack, clearly, but they have become closer on the primary surface. that is something some see as key because depending on the ratio of what they have as an income and what they spend everything else just sort of all's into place but, you know all these things depend on political will and depend on the greek government saying yes. brett: the european central bank today just freed up more money for greek banks to borrow in emergencies. is that a sign that a compromise is about to happen or a sign that people are running on banks

in greece? max: the ecb is independent, but they need to keep tax afloat. they are trying to keep them liquid as long as it takes to have a negotiation. as you know, many people have taken their money romm greek banks, put them elsewhere in the european union. we're talking billions and billions of euros only in the last couple of weeks. what they are trying to do is give them as much liquidity so they stay alive until the end of the negotiations, at least. otherwise, these banks would not be able to stay alive in the crash might come before the end of negotiation. brett: definitely a real fear right now. thank you very much. sarah: that ecb decision to keep greek banks alive is giving traders a new reason to be hopeful. our correspondent analyzes the market reaction and accurate. >> the european central bank increases emergency liquidity to

83 billion euros. this piece of news gave the german dax and extra push upwards in afternoon trading, and traders said the fact that the european central bank keeps supporting banks in greece might be seen as a good omen, but also the other creditors increase will not push up the country. other creditors do not look happy when they look at the steep increase of the dax this wednesday. after weeks of strong losses, now such a strong increase within only one day. volatility like this usually indicates that investors are very nervous. sarah: the white house just announced hours ago that it is sending 450 more u.s. troops to help iraq and the battle against islamic state. criticism in washington is growing that the u.s. appears to have no clear strategy for fighting i.s.

this comes on the one-year anniversary of the fall of iraqi city mosul to islamic state forces. a huge loss for the iraqi government. further south, the iraqi government is also battling or spoke effort and an bar province where attacks have been edging closer to the capital. >> rubble is all that remains of the restaurants and shops in the streets of baghdad. the attacks killed 20 people. the target was innocent civilians because this is not a military barracks or government building. they were just ordinary people out doing their shopping. it was indiscriminate terror showing that even in the iraqi capital, no one is safe from the i.s. the group has taken control of large parts of the region. the black i.s. flag now flies on

the syrian turkish border to ramadi. mosul was the first major city in iraq to fall to i.s. faustus the a year ago. they only needed a few thousand writers to take it. the iraqi army put up little resistance. not a single person remained when they heard the shooting. they all left. so what has happened now? everyone fled their positions in panic. all of them left their weapons and fled mosul. the people are at the mercy of the extremists. thousands fled leaving all their possessions behind in a scramble to escape. soon after, they declared that they were establishing a caliphate and proceeded to

impose it by brute force. shocked by its defeat came -- shocked by its defeat, the iraqi army rallied its troops. thousands of volunteers joined the army in the right against islamist. the u.s. air force attacked i.s. positions from the air, but the assault had limited success. a year later the islamic state controls more cities than ever before including ramadi. it fell in may. for the time being, freeing ramadi is the army's objective. liberating basel -- mosul has been put on hold. brent: richard, a few days ago obama said there is no clear strategy on how to help iraqi troops.

there has been vocal criticism about there not being a clear strategy, so how do we read today's announcement? richard: obama did get quite a bit of stick for that, he made a few days ago, though to be fair i think he was effectively saying wait for this announcement. it is his response to what happened in ramadi. we heard it referred to at the end of the report, a city in an bar province, very close to baghdad. remember that it fell to islamic state just a few weeks ago, and it was a grim reminder of what happened in most all a year ago. iraqi forces effectively had to depart the city that gave up the fight against islamic state after a long siege. it was a strong reminder that the iraqi forces are still nowhere near where they need to be one year into this battle but it is interesting for what the obama administration did not do as for what it did do. this is really just a few

hundred trainers, a few hundred support troops rather than, for instance, the kind of more aggressive thing they could have done sending and people who call in airstrikes of special forces. brent: obama remains adamant about not sending combat troops. is there talk about a possible mission creep taking place, that obama is just waiting until he is out of office because he knows the next president will have to send in more troops? richard: mission creep is pretty much the last thing obama is being criticized for at the moment. if anything, he's being criticized, as you suggest, for doing far too little. what you hear more often is the notion that obama has decided to kind of run out the clock on the fight against islamic state. to be fair, the administration has always had this would be a multi-your effort, that this is not something that would be finished by the end of his administration, but critics say

that is beginning to appear more and more like a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. brent: thank you very much. sarah: egyptian security forces say they have averted a massacre at a popular tourist site. a terrorist blew himself up near the ancient temple injuring four people, including tina policeman. brent: shortly afterward, police killed two suspected islamic militants who had arrived at the site. no tourists were hurt. millions visit the ancient site every year. libya's rival factions have an urge to wrap up peace talks quickly to prevent islamic state from gaining more ground because of the power vacuum. >> the german foreign minister has called for a government of national unity. he issued the challenge at a meeting of delegations from libya's rival governments.

he said this was perhaps the last chance to prevent the north african country from collapsing completely. now for something a little bit lighter -- it has been 22 years since director steven spielberg released his anima chama dinosaurs -- and a much chronic dinosaurs -- animatronic dinosaurs on screen. this time, the dinosaurs are bigger, the rides are scarier and there's a new director. take a look. >> the story is well known -- a theme park with bioengineered dinosaurs, but now visitors have dropped so the park needs new attractions. that includes a new kind of dinosaur. the park geneticists create a hybrid dinosaur from four different species with deadly consequences. >> she'll kill anything that

moves. >> oh, god. >> it has cool action, -- >> i'm so excited, but i also completely relate because i'm so excited for this movie to open. i'm a huge jurassic park fan. >> this is a movie for fans made by fans. >> just like predecessors in the franchise, it features groundbreaking, breathtaking special effects but also manages to pack an emotional punch. >> we do this my way. brent: all right we are going to take a short break. when we come back -- sarah: we will have a heartbreaking story. a homecoming of the remains of the 44 victims in the

germanwings plane crash. it has been a long wait for friends and emily. among the dead were a group of german schoolchildren, who were on an exchange visit to spain. -- it has been a long wait for friends and family. brent: sarah: welcome back. it's been a long and painful all weight for families and victims of victims of the plane crash in the german outs. the remains of 44 people have finally been brought home. brent: among the dead were a group of schoolchildren who have been on an exchange visit in spain. >> a procession of hearses arrived carrying the remains of victims. 16 students lost their lives in the crash to an a half months ago. their classmates gathered to pay final respects, laying white roses along the procession passed. there is a problem issuing debt

certificates. the school suffered a horrible loss -- two teachers and an entire group of students were on board the plane. they were traveling home from an exchange trip to spain. 72 germans were killed in the crash. it marks one of the worst catastrophes in german aviation history. germanwings flight 952 left barcelona just after 10:00 a.m.. less than half an hour later, it began a dissent before crashing into the french outs. prosecutors later revealed the german copilot intentionally steered the aircraft into the mountainside. all 150 people on board were killed. after a long wait, grieving families will be able to lay their loved ones to rest. a lufthansa plane brought the remains of 44 crash victims back

to germany overnight. private funeral ceremonies will be held later this week. sarah: myanmar's opposition leader has arrived in china for an opposition visit. brent: she is due to meet the chinese president in beijing. beijing has brought back the military junta which kept suu chi' under house arrest. analysts say it demonstrates suu chi's willingness to work with opposition ahead of elections in november. pope francis has held private consultations with russian president vladimir putin. sarah: the conflict in ukraine topped the agenda. his spokesman said they agreed on the need to re-create dialogue and to implement the minsk cease-fire agreement. the meeting came amid fears that agreement is falling apart. brent: african leaders have

signed a free trade pact spanning half the continent from cairo to cape town. it took five years of negotiations to set up a framework for preferential tariffs. sarah: the agreement was signed in an egyptian resort town but still has to be ratified. brent: if it works out as planned, it would be historic and have a huge impact for african economies. >> trade in africa is booming amid strong economic growth, but commerce between countries on the continent accounts for only about 10% of total volume. most exports head overseas. governments have taken a major step towards changing that. the new tripartite free trade area packed will reduce tariffs between member nations and ensure the easier movement of goods. african leaders inks the deal in a ceremony in egypt. the pact paves the way for free trade across the continent.

analysts predict it will unleash a opportunities for growth. tfta cap's five years of talks aimed at increasing intra-african trade. participating nations have a combined gdp of nearly one trillion euros. it's estimated half of africa's best -- half of africa's economic activity will take place within the new block. tfta brings together larger economies like south africa and egypt with developing economies like angola and mozambique it eager to jumpstart growth. the agreement will not solve problems. there's no timeline for removing certain trade barriers. new infrastructure will be needed to make the dream of greater intra-african trade a reality. brent: how far back should a nation reach to atone for past cruelties aqua in spain, they reckon 500 years. brent: sarah: -- the parliament of madrid is expected to pass a

law to apologize to the descendents of jews who were expelled to the country. at the time, they were said to be converting christian converts back to judaism. >> spain's ancient cities still bear traces of a jewish presence, but in what you 92, as columbus was discovering the new world, the jews were brutally expelled. they were eventually allowed to return to spain, but only around 12,000 live in the country today. that number may be about to grow because it the new law is passed, it will be easier for descendents of those expelled to get citizenship. it is atonement for the cruelties of 500 years ago. applicants will have to show evidence of their spanish origins. >> like in any other part of the world or in any country they will have to show their ancestral proof. documentation. the process for applying for

citizenship will only be open for teen of years though it could be extended to three. it's a shame if it's only teen of years. >> -- it's a shame if it's only two years. >> the jewish community believes only about 100,000 will apply. the legislation has been subject to some controversy. what about other groups despite -- deprived of their spanish citizenship? shouldn't they be offered a similar concession? >> the proposed law is for a single group but in no way suggests the government has forgotten the demands of other groups. i am convinced their concerns will also be addressed by parliament in good time. >> spanish authorities are not expected to be overwhelmed by applications for citizenship but a spanish passport also brings freedom to live and work anywhere in the european union. brent: in germany, a big

question and at the country was former defense minister -- how much did he know about the faulty g 36 military service rifle, and when did he know it? sarah: that's the subject of a parliamentary inquiry examining allegations he was informed about the problems with the gun while he was still defense minister and that he did nothing. brent: it does not fire when it overheats, a serious problem for troops. >> the german army's website calls the g-36 the weapon of the future, despite recent revelations of critical technical faults. questions are being raised about how much the former defense minister knew about the weapon's problems. reports suggested overheats in extreme conditions and is inaccurate. >> i was always told that it

worked for current deployments if the correct munition is used. >> the current defense minister defended her predecessor. >> both of us see eye to eye but inks to his work, i have new information that helps us get to the bottom of the problem. these additional facts prove that the g-36 in its current form has no future in the german military. >> defense officials long ignored complaints from soldiers deployed in countries with extremely warm climates. the defense committee wants to know why the buddha's fair -- the bundeswehr continued to order the weapons. >> and jimmy there is a close relation between the armament industry and the defense ministry, and it smells. if we don't clean it up, we will continue to have acquisition

scandals like with the g-36. the g-36 is used by armies around the world. they too, anxiously await the outcome of the investigation. sarah: a big loss for the music world. composer and big and later james last has died after a short acute illness. brent: he lived in the u.s. for the last 30 years but he was born in germany. his music was known worldwide and he is believed to of sold more than 100 alien outcomes. >> jazz composer, bandleader and goodtime conductor, james last was germany's most successful big-band musician. >> i just think i can express my feelings musically. i don't have to make anything up.

i just made music. that may sound easy to many people. they may think the music sounds simple, but that's just my life. that's who i am. >> james' real name was hans. he has his breakthrough hit in 1965 with nonstop dancing. the record struck the mood of the time. the economy was booming, and many west germans had reason to celebrate. if it was classical, jazz, or pop, james last brought his smooth, upbeat sound to whatever genre he worked in. >> and lucky the people around the world have shared my pleasure in music. i've had a great life. millions of people have

experienced something i put to paper and played. audiences really join in and get it. what more could i ask for? >> germany's big-band king was playing right up until the end. in april last played his 90th concert at london's royal out but hall, giving fans a final chance to enjoy his upbeat sound and love of life. sarah: that's going to do it for this edition. thanks for watching. brent: we leave you now with some of the lasting images and sounds of james last. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

their mission? to help the army push back the islamic state. the troops will advise iraqi soldiers. obama has been criticized for being too soft. here is the white house spokesman. josh: it's hard to give yo ua rea -- a real clear sense of exactly what other things are on the table. the present has been clear about what is not on the table and that is a large-scale ground co