sami a he's a two newseum national and he's believed to have joined al qaeda in afghanistan back in two thousand and illegibly worked as one of osama bin laden's bodyguards because he was already a german resident by that point he dented germany three years prior a need on a student visa when he came back he filed an asylum request that was denied in two thousand and six and a court in germany described him as an acute and considerable danger to public security but a higher court subsequently overrode the deportation order and they cited concerns that this man sami a would be subjected to torture back home in tunisia now sami a was never actually charged with terrorist activities in germany but laura sees deem him a security risk and he has to report to a police station on a daily basis and this whole story has been unearthed again because it's caught the

attention of the alternative for germany party they're the ones that put in a request with the regional authorities to find out the status of this man and how much money he's getting in benefits payments and it's triggered harsh criticism from both the f.t. party but also from senior voices within the angular merkel's own c.d.u. party german asylum laws being shamelessly exploited here do we have to give a cherished tax money because we cannot deport him i have no understanding of these cool. now this situation where suspected terrorists used human rights laws to avoid deportation is by no means the new here in the u.k. there have been similar cases last year a government report a home office report he revealed that over forty foreign born terrorists are devoid did deportation from the u.k. i think the reason this case with sami a in germany has caused so much concern.

because it's very hard to stomach this idea that somebody who is a suspected terrorist is getting government money and when it comes to asylum in germany political scientists. told us the whole system needs to rethink the short comings of the german legal system in the sector we are not ready to handle these complicated issues of immigration of asylum seekers we have to deal with this person we deal with all other persons of this crime the thorny issue is there states like tunisia that do not simply accept a return of their citizens to the country don't do narcs make any of the missions that they would not torture their women going big this is an open diplomatic problem we have a new with public discussion with the law system is adequate and is well fitted for handling these problems and without any doubt that in the course of these legislative term we are further clarification of. allies the syrian

military works to secure complete control of the battle scarred city of duma kilometers of rebel built tunnels have been discovered there are these good exclusive images of the vast subterranean network that helped to sustain the islamist insurgents. joe while they starve this they harass this they moved around in our blood as you see these tunnels are massive they make catches work on them as well as civilians and they wouldn't feed those who refused to work and you can see i think they are and how much they have in there is like a city beneath a city. we would be taken to

the spot where the fighting with the and they would give as a matter fifteen minutes before it started they showed us how to act and huge issues the guy who told us what to do with then disappear after that it all depended on luck before the fighting they used to tell us about jihad the martyrs of jihad and about heroic death on the battlefield but other times they treated us like dogs. of the russian defense ministry has this play fragments of several missiles recovered from the country the missiles and other malfunctions all failed to reach their targets they were part of the launched by america or you at u.k. and france earlier this month carol's got more on the story. well as you know we've been bombarded with two different versions of events of those strikes that hit syria in mid april and today the russian defense ministry really upped the ante by providing some actual tangible evidence of those missiles that it says what are the

intercepted or simply malfunctioned and this is going to be a barrister in development for the u.s. side which has lauded the success of those one hundred five as strikes which it said was were precise and overwhelming also dismissing any suggestions by russia that any of those missiles have been intercepted also insisting that the syrian air defense capabilities had been largely ineffective with syrian missiles merely being fired into open air take a listen with way over one hundred missiles they didn't shoot one down the equipment didn't work too well their equipment. they didn't shoot one you know you heard all the shots forty and then they showed fifty and there were. no sure every single one of the russian defense ministry also went into detail earlier about the targets of those one hundred five missiles twenty two only twenty two of those one hundred five missiles actually hits their intended targets and it's been revealed

at that that they actually hit civilian objects rather than the alleged chemical supplies the u.s. has been so persistent upon take a listen just to. some of the missiles don't reach the targets apparently due to malfunction they were threat to civilians there in civilian buildings at the same time the logic of the u.s. u.k. and france in choosing the targets is unclear you see there were stockpiles of toxic agents there if they were hit by cruise missiles this could lead to widespread poisoning and if it was for damascus itself tens of thousands of people could have died so this latest development is probably going to deal or blow to the u.s. presidency ego as well he had boasted so optimistically about the performance of his missiles and after those strikes even. his popularity on the upturn with his approval rating jumping a few percentage points so this turnabout is not something we could expect him to let lie. russia's consulates in the u.s.

city of seattle has now officially been shut down with police patrolling the perimeter after reportedly breaking the locks on the main gate to the premises earlier on wednesday to cause arrived outside right before the deadline set for russian diplomats to leave one of those who arrived was wearing a police uniform while the others were plain clothes with the embassy now empty the buildings being patrolled by the authorities the russian embassy called attempts to enter the building unfriendly and that it will continue to monitor the situation move comes after president trump ordered sixty diplomats to be expelled in march over allegations that russia was behind the poisoning of former double agent. his daughter in the u.k. . over to germany now where thousands of people have been demonstrating over a recent attack against the person wearing traditional jewish headwear in the capital berlin the violent incident has led to the german chancellor admitting she was worried by a spike in the semitism our europe correspondent peter all over was the rally. it

was just last week when one thousand year old syrian asylum arkan's attacked two jewish men in the rather well to do friends allow of the area of a lane no no no susan was primitive fisher is your message she says to me do you know you know that from jewish leaders in the city to say jewish people should refrain from wearing the keypad now that prompted well that prompted many people to come out here on to the streets of the german capital in order to say that they were going to wear the traditional jewish headdress the the yarmulke depending on how you want to call it they came out here today this evening and said no we will defy that we will wear it and we are proud of our jewish heritage i spoke to some of those and i asked them exactly why they were here and what they wanted to say i think we really need solidarity with all or in it circles. within all or addictions

christians jews people and. the muslim i guess well every religion has this right to live here and to leave and it's a freedom together that's my opinion of my belief. to live here to give otherwise it's. you wouldn't to i'm actually a christian jewish people belong to the same group of religions as i do i'm here to show my support for what's happening in germany right now is no good we've seen people beaten simply because they're wearing a kippah that schools have to be protected at all times kindergartens as well this is unacceptable as we've seen from some of those people we just heard for this isn't just you jewish people that have come out wearing the yarmulke in support of the jewish community here in berlin people from all faiths have done the same thing now we have seen a recent rise in anti semitic attacks in berlin we have seen

a recent rise in understand that it is. in germany in general some of those involving schools though we did hear from the german chancellor angela merkel who had this to say about recent arrivals and their contribution towards the anticipated problem in germany right now noir we have a new phenomenon as we have many refuges among whom there are for example people of arab origin who bring in another form of anti-semitism into the country unfortunately and to cynicism existed before that. and it's that that's probably thousands of people to come out here to the streets of the german capital to say you know challenge the semitism in their city and you know it is of in all of those forms. photojournalists from garza's died of a bullet wound he sustained while documenting a demonstration close to these very border earlier this month twenty five year old son was shot in the stomach by israeli defense force lifers is the second

journalist to have been killed while covering the ongoing great march of return protest campaign has seen was reportedly working out a permissible distance from the border fence when he was hit there i.d.f. has claimed it doesn't intentionally target journalists and investigate deaths in all such circumstances however there's been a global backlash over the israeli military's brutal suppression of the rallies in gaza since the end of month and march its soldiers have killed forty palestinians including four children during that period. well largest advanced economies want to get a better picture of russia the g.

seven nations are planning to set up a special working group to study what they describe as moscow's malign behavior russia was at the top of the agenda of the gathering of the group's foreign ministers in canada. has the story. right the g seven a club of some of the world's leading industrialized nations tackling the planet's biggest problems from financial crises to military conflicts but it's also the g. eight minus russia and it seems they just can't help talking about the member they kicked out russia was the focus of the g seven foreign and security ministers meetings in toronto the g seven foreign ministers are calling attention to so-called malign behavior by russia they're expected to look at ways to keep pressure on russia without imposing new sanctions for two days g. seven foreign and security ministers rub shoulders in toronto at an event with the tagline building a more peaceful and secure world and apparently for that to happen first and foremost russia needs to be put in its place then things like war and world hunger

can be addressed just like last year and the year before that and so on because he's in ukraine and russia's actions are the very reason for the g seven brussels summit this is now the second year in a row that the g. seven has met without russia another example of russia's isolation ukraine is the victim of russian aggression we must never forget that fact if i think about the position of a lot of you putin now he's you know he's talked so far that he's really the repeat of russia now this time around and. would a whole laundry list of russia issues condemn russia's irresponsible and destabilizing behavior check demand such alleged actions cease immediately check agree that it is highly likely moscow poisoned sergei screwball and his daughter and that there's just no plausible alternative check and the acting u.s. secretary of state one as far as to tell reporters that russia has to be a quote constructive partner in syria or be held accountable so to be fair they did

manage to cover a lot of ground it just more often than not happened to be russia related let's just hope they can avoid getting too carried away with their plans but we decided was that we were going to send a jew certain group that would look at russian malign behavior in all this money for stations whether it's cyber war whether it's this information assassination of whatever it happens to be and collectively try and call it out and the hostile it may not have reached its peak either this meeting was perhaps just a preview of what we can expect when the leaders of the g seven countries come together in june to tackle the russian mess. now the pursuit of beauty has contributed to the humiliating downfall of former leader of spain's madrid region christine resigned earlier on wednesday after a video showing her being caught red handed. and.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lobell after sixty eight years the two koreas are on the verge of signing a peace treaty a donald trump summit is in the works is peace coming to the korean peninsula well it's possible the foreign policy blog and the corporate it's media are less enthusiastic after all conflict is their business model.

in the korean peninsula i'm joined by my guest. washing he is a senior fellow at the institute for china america studies also in washington we have john merrow he is former chief of the north east asia division of the bureau of intelligence and research at the u.s. state department as well as author of korea the peninsular origins of the war and in new york we cross to daniel liz our he is an author and freelance journalist who writes frequently about the middle east eastern europe and the us constitution right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate so let me go to you first in washington if you look at the mainstream media and particularly the cable stations. all the focus on the career korean peninsula is directed towards this summit that trump may have with the north korean leader but really i think it's much more important happening this week and

if the two koreas coming together how does this change the situation on the peninsula if north korea and south korea can find some kind of meaningful and let me stress meaning for reproach moment go ahead in washington. let me in response to your question laid out right over here that there are real credit for the what the situation the opportunity that we have today is because of president mungy in south korea you know if we had a c.m. all the conservative south korean government in place today what would have happened is kim jong un would have gone through with his condense testing schedule and then after that he would have gone straight into his bunker emerging from time to time with grave threats and snarly garley threats to blow everything up the fact of the matter is that mungy him is the person who has been able to tease kim jong il kim jong un out into the sunshine and has open and shown him

a pathway to global integration and as well as not south reconciliation. in the south korean progressive government has a lead this process of reconciliation which has dramatically altered the dynamics on the on the korean peninsula of course the olympics also have helped and therefore it is not the insult they extend that they leave the process that they would have dragged other parties along including the united states credit allies with the peninsula parties ok john let me go to you more or less the same question here because the dynamic changes considerably if there is a peace between the two koreas after sixty eight years big start coming to some. defense and security measures that both can accept then regime change as it were that we hear so many people talking about in in the washington foreign policy blob

that kind of is taken off the table because that would not be in south korea's interests go ahead john in washington. right peter well i think i think you overstated it a little bit i do give president moon a lot of credit but i think the main credit i never thought i would say that i know obviously belongs to donald trump i know you're going to say that. this this this this is this is the man who said he wanted nothing more than to sit down and have a hamburger with kim jong un and looks like he's going to get his chance right now there are apparently still cia people liaison people behind in pyongyang at least according to the south korean media and people are hard at work and mr pump aoe is the guy that's been running this. formerly from his post as cia director but hopefully in a few days as secretary of state so i think i would agree the president deserves

a lot of credit and certainly with a progressive government a lot of things are possible that weren't underpass can conservative regimes but i think we have to give president trump his do as well and i just i just hope things go ok it's topsy turvy world exactly and you know and i'm very happy that this process is going on let me go to daniel i don't care who gets the credit i think that is really low on the hierarchy a bit of an important see are getting peace on that peninsula where you have the most heavily armed border in the world after sixty eight years who considerable american military presence is there and the chinese have come in and in ways that i think we'll find out in the future they were very constructive here it's the result that counts most importantly go ahead daniel well. let me speak up for kim jong un and i think it's played his cards extremely well. this is not in the door

a political endorsement of him by any means but he is the very smart player yet and he has done. very good job. he's you know he's the kind of you know seize control of the opening seize the opening that trump corded him and has really run of the i think it's a it's a pretty impressive performance ok let's go back to washington so i think what's really important here i mean it's good to get down to really the details here because we have a do you need arise south korea i'm sorry korean peninsula means north and south so that means that american nukes would not be allowed there i mean this is the kind of opening that i think the north korean leader was looking for he's looking for a grand bargain and you know what folks he's been asking for a grand bargain for a while and i think he had to go through all of the theatrical of the missiles and the launches and you know all of the heated rhetoric back and forth this was the opening that he was looking for and it was a south korean leader that opened the door and we got

a nod from donald trump i mean we'll find out where it goes so you know it really gets down to the details of what that means because we know all along north korea wants security guarantees maybe russia and china can be guarin tours of that go ahead so open in washington you're absolutely correct on that i mean the devil is in the details in terms of how do you go about staging nuclearization in terms of how that process works out the mechanics of that process but you're absolutely correct on that point with regard to denuclearize the nuclearization that it is not just a north korean of it needs to be a peninsula affair let me throw out a useful principle which might be useful here both in terms of denuclearization as well as in reduction of conventional forces in terms on the peninsula and in terms of the hostilities that are there in terms of denuclearization we're talking of course complete verifiable irreversible nuclearization of north korea they can have

a civil nuclear program which. civil nuclear program which will be very intrusively watched over by the i.a.e.a. full scope see if guards etc etc but what that means for south korea is that of course they have this civil of very extensive civil nuclear program but there will be no strategic forces on their territory and they want to even be an extended deterrent to south korea provided by the us so long as there is complete nuclearization of the north now the parallel fact which north and south korea frankly need to work out because denuclearization is a sensually a topic of discussion between north korea and the united states with regard to conventional forces what the disposition of the end of the day needs to be that the peninsula is is kind of insulated from the larger the geopolitics off the north

east asia south the south korea has already shown that it is not not terribly interested in getting into things like a regional ballistic missile shield well it's not interested in going to eilat for a line we're going to final we're going to find actually yeah we're going to find out just how far the pentagon wants to go along with it john let me go to you because if you get if you look at the mainstream media and the punditry that we are bombarded with all of the time and the mainstream media is really not on board here is it just because they don't want to see succeed at anything or in the military industrial complex i mean south korea and the and that region of the world is a nice. trough for arms in the u.s. as a vast military establishment there that needs to be paid for i mean is it a combination of these things here and go ahead john in washington. well you know i peter i don't know that's that's that's kind of hard to say what i will say is this i think what has happened is that we have now gotten

a de facto freeze for freeze this was the proposal you have that was made by moscow and beijing years ago and i wrote on this subject about a year and a half ago and i got excoriated for saying that but this is what it is this is what is now de facto in place and so this is this is a big deal it is you know the u.s. the u.s. military exercises this year the joint us are ok exercises are a shadow of their former self last year we had three aircraft carrier battle groups participating this year it's one small aircraft it's really an assault ship with short takeoff and landing j. thirty f. thirty five so it's a huge deal now there are huge military asymmetries on the peninsula which are going to be astronomically difficult to resolve so we may get

a start in these in these discussions when the two korean leaders may meet they may in a few days they may even be clear and then to yes the korean war at least hostilities but it's going to take a lot of tough slogging to work through some of these details and to particularly to put in place the security guarantees which i think the north koreans are going to insist on to go forward daniel let me go to you i mean the security guarantees that's what it's always been about and i'm glad that john mentioned the freeze for freeze because that's been around for a while nobody in the mainstream media says that where that idea comes from but i can tell you if you go to last year during the security council you could see the russian and chinese ambassador at length go through that. process here daniel before we go to the break go ahead in new york. well i just want to remind your viewers that.