Issue would be to me to be seeing the way to be our. Challenges and i will build up my country until the last week called its a loss and why i didnt do enough people against International Law to bring the wrong on president to scale. Also on the day 5 years of conflict in Eastern Ukraine and there is still no end in sight to the fighting today a new push from the french president to bring russia and ukraine back to the negotiating table. If we have to reinvent an architecture of security and trust between the European Union and russia and france will play its full role and you all. A warm welcome to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world tonight the german chancellor Angela Merkel is in iceland for talks with nordic leaders talks that will focus on the need for action on Climate Change now chancellor merkel was welcomed in the icelandic capital reykjavik where her counterpart Prime Minister country. Reminded everyone about the high price that her country is paying for a global warming. Climate saying this is something that my government is prioritizing very much and we had actually here yesterday and i started just close here to see if this ceremony where we actually got others because we have the 1st release you are disappearing in iceland or. Right now the glacier the Prime Minister was talking about as we can see behind me except the ice is all but gone now to get an idea of the transformation heres an aerial shot of the glacier sitting on top of the oak hall kaino and this photo was taken by nasa back in 1906 and if we take a look at this 2nd picture here this is what oak looked like just a few weeks ago so over the past 30 years the glacier has almost entirely melted away iceland officially declared it dead in 2014 were so pleased to have them you know iceland wants to bring awareness to the fate of oak glacier and the future of the rest of its glaciers so as we hear the country mark the passing of the massive ice sheet the Prime Minister of climate researchers journalists members of the public attended and they fixed a bronze plaque to a boulder in the former glacier on it was a letter to the future of this is what it says oak is the 1st icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier in the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path this monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done only you know if we did it the former un human rights commissioner Mary Robinson now a campaigner for Climate Justice was also at the ceremony. I feel very humbled to be here to be off because this is an occasion for iceland but in fact its also for the whole world were marking the death of a glee fear did we ever think that we would be doing this. One man who might have known what happened before most people is axel son is an icelandic photojournalist who is spent the last 35 years photographing the worlds remote arctic regions his book the acquittal documents the spectacular and rapidly vanishing glaciers on his homeland. And he joins us for more from reykjavik good to see you how do you feel personally about oakland sure vanishing. Its. This is the reality and weve just said and i think its. What happens when its when its gone its likely to get the attention. I think people will start more and more people was out. You probably wish that it was going as you probably wish right now but i got the same attention when it was still there i mean you have been photographing the glaciers how do you remember this glacier and the glacier landscape in general. It was like a couple of the guys and these days it was like night and other and it was 15 square kilometers its gone and if you take us back as if it was a very famous one with stories john is a sense of it was in i think now its 10. 00 it was 22 square kilometers some 930. 00 Something Like that so theyre going fast down there i grew up underneath in the south coast and i was measuring it as a kid and the rivers and so ive seen it happen. And ive been living in the arctic for about. 4 years since so ive seen a mouth and see how it changes and i think its waking up more and more and its very important to document things both life and people and living out again and everythings taking and to show the world right now thats incredible to hear youve had such a personal experience with these glaciers as you said he spent decades photographing the arctic why and what have you learned in that time. To respect nature to respect the planet when i was unlike an agreement with the hunters as. Theyre getting fewer and fewer because the ice is fitting to the area they have to hunt down the ice is sort of so when you look up. Lived in a tent on the ice on the on the ocean and you know gov and see the stars and you start to realise that were just a little dot in this billions of stars so then you start to think everything all over again you know and you have to face your kids events its later on when questing comes around why did you do anything and so to me it just photographing is showing whats happening its very important it is hot its. Its very expensive to do that that has to be done the books. Well youre certainly not the only one right that weve also seen other artists like although frankly yes and trying to draw attention as you are to the disappearing play surance do you think that i can really play an Important Role in bringing awareness to whats happening i think so i think ill just take you go and show that of this and think that out is they have to do i was flying with all of the deep sea front up the place at times 20 years ago and you know like 42 of them and now we really do is really doing it im playing with in my plane and and then go on most of it is we just we are searching for were not there not to have you have to figure out you know they were just looking at the mountains as we know and i think its going to be a remarkable thing like everything hes doing so its really a great honor to work with them so yeah its i think awkward would have to stand up and take over the show were the not saying to stop the wheels turning in the bombs out of nothing like that but its just there are also opportunities but the article is the real war is i think its even worse than but the politicians have to make the decisions and the ones who will be the greatest decisions and. Right now i want to ask you because youre someone whos brought up in this landscape that for people we have viewers around the world and for people watching elsewhere why is it important to keep these glaciers a lot. Its hard to keep them alive because they lack the sunrays otherwise you have to give proof white or you know in the street in the cities or Something Like that i dont know but they respect the sunlight and then theyre gone and theres the next black sand and that just keeps you know thats you know its unfair to either of them but it is a gracious and and the i want to talk to them and when it does go on them and theres a good story there is there is yeah it keeps the 500. 00 bill. So thats very important to everything we can all read a message there to all of our viewers around the world our photojournalists ragnar axles and a joining us from reykjavik thank you so much for speaking to us thank you. Meanwhile another sign that glacier is not the only ice sheet at risk 2 kayakers in alaska went out to explore alaska Spencer Glacier and get a closer look and they certainly did not just as they paddled over a wall of ice crumbled on the crashed into the water sending chunks of ice and huge waves their way it was a close call for the 2 men and they got soaked and suffered minor bruises but they say they were lucky to be alive. Right still to come on the day born in a war zone now a chance at a new life why some European Countries are taking back children whose parents were Islamic State fighters i did a mistake i came here my children are here if i have to sit 20 years in prison and i have to pay for it even the money for that i stay in prison i would to go to her 2 years in prison reading her lies here is psychologic more attesting one time. But 1st a rare meeting in the mediterranean french president is hosting his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at his Summer Holiday retreat off the french coast this is no vacation the 2 leaders have plenty of issues on the agenda especially trying to find a solution to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine heres what they had to say as things got underway the only night while in close collaboration with president s alinsky and chancellor merkel we would have to consider the opportunity of a new so much like the normandy so much with infamy if we manage to do it like that Going Forward and whatever else. Youre putting playing into this i will talk with president mccall about my life his contacts with the new ukrainian president and with them hes a young man there are things that are worth talking about and they give grounds for cautious optimism for the 1st question i dont know if the news the. Government forces have been battling russian backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine for 5 years now to pull diplomacy hasnt worked but ukraine now has a new leader the french president is trying to restart peace talks using something called the normandy format it brought together germany france ukraine and russia for negotiations on stopping the fighting but as the war has stretched on those efforts have lost steam could this be a chance for a fresh start. A mother says goodbye to her dead son. Hes one of 4 ukrainian soldiers killed in the east of the country in the 1st week of august. It was the single biggest death toll in the ongoing conflict with pro russian separatists in almost a year the response of ukrainian president brought him as alinsky was immediate he called russian president Vladimir Putin and begged him to use his influence to stop more ukrainians from being killed but he went to step further and call for a new round of International Peace talks. That i would also like to talk to angloamerican in the nearest future even today if theres time and to agree on an emergency meeting we should stop telling each other that the normandie format meeting should take place at sometime this year how many more people will die this year. Ukraines leader supported by emanuel france is pushing to revive the talks known as the normandy format as a way of ending the simmering conflict these came about in 2014 when the leaders of france germany ukraine and russia met on the sidelines of the 70th anniversary of the d. Day landings in normandy france the 4 way discussions helped to seal an agreement between the warring parties in 2015 this reduce the fighting but small scale clashes have continued the result is that since the start of a still a t s an estimated 13000 people have died. Hoping to reign in the violence the Normandy Group met a number of times but the process has been stoled since 2016. Now the french president is hoping to oversee efforts to restart the normandy format and to persuade Vladimir Putin to join the process and resume peace talks. Lets talk about this story now with gustav grethel hes a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and acting director of its Wider Europe Program which looks at europes Strategic Policies what if eastern neighbors the south thank you very much for joining us here in our studio what do you think of this meeting of michael hosting glad to meet putin doesnt really pave the way for fresh peace talks over half a season of fresh normandy talks have been in the pipeline for the last month the pro are you really gonna. Happen or will they bring something about. The deep overtures to told which was set on pretty much gives foote a new fresh and he sort of lost the station raised west or new europeans that the europeans are eager to strike some soul to deal with him. And thats you wong or he is about to win which is a bad sign you have to give food in the impression that it will get worse if you continues to play. So i think there are now giving the impression that he cannot sort of a talk or deal on his way which will be an acceptable do you to do you train ins will have basically the same stall may continuing so youre saying this is the wrong strategy for youre saying its at least the the wrong will cavaleri to wrap it in discussion of sort of the europeans arent euro star city folk so we have to bring back. We we have as if it was our guilds that there is a war in east ukraine was started by rough. Federation is thought of a fool to. Say this is the sort of depression the kremlin wants to have at the russias indispensable that hes in his pencil that only if youre opposed to him. And his interests im get to his terms there will be peace because that lets be honest the tough talk the tough words between these 2 sides havent worked until now so maybe this is the only way to get everyone back at the table. Well visqueen france and fulton there the russian brother bear some tough lines on russian meddling in french Domestic Affairs on on ukraine. The tough lines that were all there stall the fighting to stop the war from being a war that was fault with tanks and i was basically sitting with the teary test containing the problem is that you can last in the only ended if you introduce a kind of hes making force that has an x x 2 from on that the russians are those who block for its new u. N. Security council to get him on that for for next 60 missions so the the prologue and how would you convince putin that he needs to give up his weight whats the pressure behind it if you use it if start to dial all the roses he he wills nall feeling scientists to to give way if we look at the fact that this conflict has been going on for 5 years now what has really just not worked when it comes to efforts at bringing peace in this region. To to leave implementation to to the conflict parties and especially it hasnt worked to have this kind of continued this kind of hang on hands off approach which was the russian system putin has been comfortable in in taking credit for. And you step further to d. S. Them as collation but when it comes to escalation and the escalation usually comes from the separatists the socalled suffers the side effects often so while you know these also prevent its used up there of course in the line of command. Of the russian army so he is in a comfortable position he sort of can be the peacemaker the same time hes the escalator on the here and the responsibilities need to be clear addressed ok well it certainly is rare that western powers invite of lie to me putin for a visit and in a way as you said these there were tones expressing perhaps and bringing russia in from the cold i want to play you something that we heard from a minor one michael little bit earlier lets listen to that. Look its funny to me the did not like he did use issue depends on the ukrainian crisis in a very simple way to do it on the other hand dont i also hold out hope that as part of his recomposition of an architecture of security intro situated we can clear up many of the misunderstandings and that have arisen between the European Union and russia do people feel this is because they want to pick up on that many misunderstandings and there are a lot of tensions with the talk about you know french accusations of russian interference that alexion the attic station of crimea where do things stand right now between the 2 you have a lot of conflicting issues but we dont have misunderstandings theres no misunderstanding on crimea its for all the russian. Russia thinks it has a legal right to annex countries. And we have a position that we dont think anybody has the right to annex other parts of this country its sort of misunderstandings sort of thief different situation and russia. On legal terms has signed up to the treaties and conventions that forbid this kind of crave the same as with russian intervention french domestic professed. In the direction government says it doesnt do this a they say they dont use triple triple. We have a sort of we not only state that we have we have evidence sort of brought this for us in the open the week before this was a several trials that are now going on the diet fresh and stuff so if the specs and your offices and this is not a misunderstanding its a different world its yes its a very different both pursuing policy and the thing is we can know its a deflates 1. 5 through books we can say we have this rule we signed up for it. If we dont enforce its. Then basically we end up with on a key so instead of talking about misunderstanding. Bring together we need to talk about rules and violations and consequence oh its certainly a lot to talk about we have a chief 7 summit coming up later this week russell a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations thank you for sharing your insights with us. Meanwhile there is a debate here in europe over citizens who have gone to syria to fight for the socalled Islamic State and how to handle their families germany has now announced it is taking in 4 children born to former Islamic State fighters who are german citizens kurdish authorities have handed the children to a german delegation in syria at the Border Crossing with iraq after the meeting the children were seen being driven away they have been living in the whole camp in the countrys northeast which is holding more than 70000. 00 women and children it is the 1st time germany has agreed to take an eye of children from syria. And germanys foreign minister the just say there may be more to follow. This is for lish just a few tortured its most welcome that for german children who had been in custody in Northern Syria were able to leave the country today and will advocate for other children to also be able to leave syria from this group so this essentially concerned small children and their accommodation is anything but optimal and ultimately they cannot be held responsible for their parents behavior thats why we want to help there. More than 100 children of german parents remain in syria belgium was one of the 1st European Countries to take in orphans of i. A. s fighters will take a look now at how belgian officials rescued children from a terrible condition that can at a camp in Northern Syria. Children absolutely exhausted starving sick injured children of a war not of their making. And theyre stranded here in no mans land with the kurds in Northern Syria. A refugee camp meant 410000 people now shelters 73000 because no one wants them these people might belong to i. A. S. But heidi to pile of the belgian Childrens Protection Center child focus says thats no excuse for the terrible situation that the camp the courts are very clear that they do not have enough resources to take care of all these International Foreign women and children who at a certain point were members of. Isis so thats very clear they also feel that the international. Coalition is leavin them a little bit a little behind. After much debate the belgian government decided to send a small group of experts to syria. Among them is heidi to power. Her assignment to find belgian children in syria to build report with them and then bring them back to their home country. In the end its 6 out of nearly 50 children orphans. So they are eager to give the children back the only thing is they say a lot of countries are not contacting us are not talking to us so that thats one thing and the other thing they say of course a lot of countries. Have the know that the demand that only the children can come back not the models the kurds categorically reject this they dont want to separate mothers from their children and they no longer want to be responsible for these women to have to care for them. The kurds had suffered massively at the hands of ins. People who belong to my ass have to live under strict surveillance in a separate area of the camp and with good reason why. The moderate and especially runaway women and children are greatly terrorized by asked loyalists they fear for their lives. I did a mistake i came here my children are here if i have to sit 20 years in prison and i have to pay for it even the money for that as them prison i would to go 30 years in prison really for life yes psychologic more testing one time on the. People in the camp who do not submit to i ask are punished torched and women and children are killed. We have to realize that there is a caliphate developing within the camps in North Eastern syria and this is a potential danger for the children who are dare and for the women who turned their back on isis they will come back illegally now out of scope with. Possibilities of attacking our society so for safety reasons yes for safety reasons we have to get them back the experts say its the only way to keep an eye on them. Thats it for the day but as always the conversation continues online youll find us on twitter either at u. W. News or smuggling us dont forget to use our past the day ive seen some of them to thank you for watching. The numbers and hopes for welcome florida concerns building stadiums to host of these suckers event of 20 twentieths or 100 appear to be big shows the floods in the state itself is how much progress is really being made behind the scenes im extremely surprised to hear that is anything remotely resembling a democracy. Lifting the veil on kids are. 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