Didnt do enough sleep International Call theres a wrong on the president its going to. 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. 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 dr reminded everyone about the high price that her country is paying for global warming. Climate change is something that my government is prioritizing very much and we had actually here yesterday and i started just close here to see a cliff ceremony where we actually go there because we have the 1st place youre 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 volcano and this photo was taken by nasa back in 1906 and if we take a look at this 2nd picture here of 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 here in 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 a 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 cliff here 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 anabaptist leave benching plagiarists his homeland. And he joins us for more from reykjavik good to see you how do you feel personally about oakland sure vanishing. This is the reality and we just accept it and i think its. What happens when its when its gone its likely to get the attention and i think. More and more peoples doubt. You probably wish that it as you probably wish right now that it got the same attention when it was still there i mean you have been photographing the glaciers how do you remember this glacier in the glacier landscape in general. It was like a couple of the guys and these days it was like a night and other new 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 square kilometers it was 22 square kilometers some 930. 00 Something Like that so theyre going fast and 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 been for living in the arctic for about. 4 years since so ive seen them up and see how that changes and i think its waking up more and more and its very important to document things by 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 in like an agreement with the hunters of the theyre getting fewer and fewer because the ice is fitting to the area they have to have to stay on the ice is shorter so when you look. Lived in a tent on the ice and on the ocean and you look up 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 your vantage later on when questing comes when what when did you do anything and so to me it just photographing is showing well whats happening is very important it is hot and. 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 all the friendliest and trying to draw attention as you are to the disappearing play shirts do you think that i can really play an Important Role in bringing awareness to whats happening i think so i think of just taking over the show who are not part of this think the artists they have to do i was flying with all of the deep sea photograph of 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 that and by playing and and then go on most of it its we just we are searching were out there not to have you have to figure out you know they were just looking at the mountains as well and i think it will be a remarkable thing like everything hes doing so its a great honor to work with him 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 that the politicians have to make the decisions and the ones who will be the very existence on the planet right now i want to ask you because youre someone whos for grown up in this landscape but 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 sundress otherwise you have to paint your roof white or you know in the street in the city just something 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 a victory of that but it is a gracious and and the out there going to go and when it is gone then and theres a great story there is that is what keeps the planet. 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 a huge wave 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 the children whose parents were Islamic State fighters i did a mistake i came here my children right here if i have to sit trying to years in prison and i have to pay for it even the money for that i stand prison i would to go 30 years in prison really here is psychologic more testing guantanamo. But 1st our rare meeting in the mediterranean french president is hosting his russian counterpart by the mere 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 managed to do it like that Going Forward it would have been so. Youre going find get out of this but i will talk with president mccall about my latest contacts with the new ukrainian president and from the young man there are things that are worth talking about and they give grounds for causes an optimism on the side of the quest i dont know if theyre using. 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. Of the say 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 saddam 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. I would also like to talk to Angela Merkel 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. Of. 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 his duties an estimated 13000. 00 people had died. Hoping to rein 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 the story now with gustav grethel fener policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and acting director of its Wider Europe Program which looks at groups Strategic Policies what if eastern neighbors thank you very much for joining us here in our studio what do you think of this meeting michael hosting glad to meet putin doesnt really pave the way for fresh peace talks over have to seize a fresh nobody talks have been in the pipeline for the last month the priority really trauma. How will they bring something about. The deep overtures to told which was set on pretty much gets put in new fresh and he sort of lost the rest west or europeans that the europeans are eager to strike some sort of deal with him. And thats you wong or hes about to win which is a bad sign you have to give food to the impression that it will get worse if you continue. So i think there are now giving the impression that hes sort of a talk or deal on his way which will be an acceptable due to the ukrainians will have basic you need the same still might continuing so youre saying this is the wrong strategy from your peers think its at least the wrong will cavaleri to wrap it in discussion of sort of europe leans out euro star some folks who we have to bring back. We we have as if it was our guilds that there is a warning in east ukraine was started by Russian Federation is thought of putin. Said this is the sort of the impression the kremlin wants to have at the russias indispensable that hes in a spends double that only if youre opposed to him. And to 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 victor in france and fulton theyre the run brother bear some tough lines on russian meddling in french domestic of us on on ukraine. The tough lines of their all their stall the fighting to stop the wall from being a wall that was faultless tanks and i was basically sitting over the teary test contained the problem is that you can last in the only ended if you introduce a kind of peacemaking force the house and expects to mung that the russians are those who block for us in the u. N. Security council to get them on that for for next 60 missions so the the prologue am how do you convince putin that he needs to give up his weight whats the pressure behind it if you just start to dial the rosas is he he wills nall feeling scientists to be avoided 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 has verdict to have these kind of continued this kind of hand on. Hands off approach which was the russian system putin has been comfortable in in taking credit for. And he stamped further to d. S. The escalation but when it comes to escalation in the escalation usually comes from the separatists the socalled separate few side effects often say well you know these us have 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 at 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 invited like to meet 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 him on one knuckle little bit earlier lets listen to that. I look at this one as you need to devote his reginas issue depends on the ukrainian crisis in a very simple way to do it on the other hand could only by also hold out hope without 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 they dont lections the annexation 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 for 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 of those countries its not a misunderstanding is from sort of thief different situation and russia on on legal terms has signed up to the treaties and conventions that forbid this kind of pave the same as with russian intervention in french domestic affairs. In the direction governments face 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 sort of brought this fall within the opus week you brought this was a several trials that are now going on the dying for us and sub safety affects and 0 offices and this is not a misunderstanding its a different world its yes its a very different both pursuing policies and the thing is we cannot sort of plates 1. 5 through books. And say we have this rule we signed up for it. If we dont enforce its. Then basically we we end up with on a key so instead of talking about misunderstandings. 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 that theyve 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 the children from syria. And germanys foreign minister the just say there may be more to follow. This is for lish as 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 we take a look now at how belgian officials rescued children from a terrible condition a cat a camp in Northern Syria. Children absolutely exhausted starving sick injured children of a war not of their making. And there stranded here in no mans land with the kurds in Northern Syria. A refugee camp meant 410000 people now shelter 73000 because no one wants them these people might belong to i. A. S. But heidi to poll of the belgian Childrens Protection Center child focus says thats no excuse for the terrible situation at 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 where we can hear they also feel that the international. Coalition is living in 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 now 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 have 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 i have to sit trying to years in prison and i have to pay for it even the money for that i stand for than i would to go turtle 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 time the day ive seen some of the thank you for watching. Because. Going back. To the business season stop all the. Media. Spin planned back. To the feasting and bending. And sometimes enjoyment the 1st weekend of. Strong women in africa. The battle against horrific violence. Physical and sexual abuse and tradition. In many countries in africa women are still subject to terrifying atrocities. But theyre fighting. 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