And thats where masoud aqil comes in. He was captured and tortured by socalled islamist state in syria. But he managed to escape to germany. Now he wants to use that traumatic experience to help the country that has taken him in. Masoud aqil, a kurdish refugee from syria, is an important informant in the fight against is terrorists in europe. Even germanys capital, berlin, is not safe from islamist terrorism. Last december, a terrorist murdered 12 people at a Christmas Market in the name of the Islamic State, the same organization that masoud aqil fled from. What they want to do when they do terrorist attacks in berlin, in germany in general in all europe, in syria, in my home land in kurdistan. All these attacks, their target is to make us weaker, to make us get afraid. But when we feel the opposite, when we get stronger. I think this is the inner thing to show isis they are nothing. Masoud aqil defies is by openly showing his face and revealing the information he brought with him whe
And thats where masoud aqil comes in. He was captured and tortured by socalled islamist state in syria. But he managed to escape to germany. Now he wants to use that traumatic experience to help the country that has taken him in. Masoud aqil, a kurdish refugee from syria, is an important informant in the fight against is terrorists in europe. Even germanys capital, berlin, is not safe from islamist terrorism. Last december, a terrorist murdered 12 people at a Christmas Market in the name of the Islamic State, the same organization that masoud aqil fled from. What they want to do when they do terrorist attacks in berlin, in germany in general in all europe, in syria, in my home land in kurdistan. All these attacks, their target is to make us weaker, to make us get afraid. But when we feel the opposite, when we get stronger. I think this is the inner thing to show isis they are nothing. Masoud aqil defies is by openly showing his face and revealing the information he brought with him whe
More on this later in the show. Its ok to beat your wife or girlfriend provided they dont end up in the hospital. This is the message many women in russia worry is being sent to abusive men after the countrys parliament passed a law decriminalizing domestic violence. Instead of up to two years in prison, offenders now face the mere prospect of a fine. According to estimates, over half a million women a year are victims of domestic violence. Now some fear that figure could rise even further. Demonstrators in st. Petersburg act out scenes of Domestic Abuse in protest against a change in russian law making violence against spouses a petty offense. It essentially removes one of the only deterrents. Now if we beat someone in our family, well only have to pay a small fine. Men who batter their wives are more the rule than the exception in russia. This incident outside an apartment block in southwest st. Petersburg is just one instance. A surveillance camera recorded a family dispute that tur
More on this later in the show. Its ok to beat your wife or girlfriend provided they dont end up in the hospital. This is the message many women in russia worry is being sent to abusive men after the countrys parliament passed a law decriminalizing domestic violence. Instead of up to two years in prison, offenders now face the mere prospect of a fine. According to estimates, over half a million women a year are victims of domestic violence. Now some fear that figure could rise even further. Demonstrators in st. Petersburg act out scenes of Domestic Abuse in protest against a change in russian law making violence against spouses a petty offense. It essentially removes one of the only deterrents. Now if we beat someone in our family, well only have to pay a small fine. Men who batter their wives are more the rule than the exception in russia. This incident outside an apartment block in southwest st. Petersburg is just one instance. A surveillance camera recorded a family dispute that tur
Over 100,000 people have beenpurged from turkeys military, courts, universities, and civilservice in the government crackdown after last julysfailed coup. Failed coup. So fearful are the officers andtheir families of what may happen if they return to turkey,many have applied for asylum in belgium. On strict conditions ofanonymity, a few spoke with or reporter about their plight. Reporter these two women and their families have lostvirtually everything. A few months ago, their husbandswere wellpaid, wellrespected military officers representingturkey at nato headquarters in brussels. Now, they are in hiding from that government, accused ofbeing terrorists. We have to disguise theiridentities because they fer retaliation. I never imagined that couldhappen to us. We have even told our childrennot to speak turkish in public anymore. Reporter a couple months after the failed military coup, theywere ordered to return to turkey, accused of having linksto those who tried to overthrow president