A new to create allow saudi women to travel abroad without the consent of a male guardian the move is a game changer which will go into effect at the end of the month and 5 years ago socalled Islamic States trying to exterminate the new cd people of iraq now 1st begins to open mass graves in hopes of finding those who vanished without a trace. Only a heart thank you so much for your Company Everyone the west does not want a new global arms race so says nato secretary general young stoltenberg his appeal comes as Nuclear Weapons treaty dating from a cold war era collapses the ending of the intermediate range Nuclear Forces agreement or i. N. F. Does away with limits on the arsenals of both the u. S. And russia stalker blames russia for the u. S. For drawing from the missile accord saying moscow out failed to comply after it developed a new cruise missile. It was a tweet that announced the end of over 30 years of mutual Nuclear Restraint u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o squarely put the blame on russia when he declared the treaty ends today President Trump had withdrawn from the agreement 6 months ago after russia deployed a new Missile System that contravenes the i. N. F. Terms according to washington a nato. Put russia is adamant that the us is responsible for the treaties unraveling. Which we have discussed the subject in detail many times from the very beginning we were saying that this is exclusively a u. S. Initiative and medical apprentice 1st to shatter the scream and yell and then terminate participation at. The brushing away American Mind moscow has proposed a moratorium on deploying Nuclear Capable missiles and nato is also keen to avoid europe becoming a staging ground for a Nuclear Buildup would be funny we will not mirror what russia does we dont want a new officers. And we have no intention to deploy a new land based. In europe. Nato continues to aspire. To. Make possible. The end of a historic agreement struck between the us and the soviet Union President s Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the treaty in 1987 a change of course after decades of tension. The root of the tension was this the soviet s s 20 missile a Nuclear Warhead that could strike western europe at short notice. The u. S. Deployed its own mid range missiles in europe leading to protests across the west. The i. N. F. Treaty resulted from widespread popular demand for deescalation when the cold war ended. But with the end of the ins the specter of Nuclear Confrontation looms again. Was earning me now here on the set this is them feel hall founder and executive board member of the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons or i can in short right here in germany and some of you might remember that in 2017 i can won the Nobel Peace Prize a very good day thank you for being here we highlighted some of the significance of that landmark treaty but what made it so crucial where you had to remember that the people of my age and she grew up in a world which was completely different from what humanity might see now in terms of the fact that we were all scared there was going to be a nuclear war and we all went on the outs on the streets and millions in western europe and also in the United States went out in the streets to ask for these weapons to be scrapped and so it was a big deal when in 1987 the reagan and gorbachev actually decided yes well do that and he got rid of a whole category of Nuclear Weapons now the focus is on russia but lets turn our attention to the u. S. Is pulling out of the i. N. F. Treaty by the us the right decision even though russia is not complying was it was it too quick to act by pulling out or definitely we were of the opinion that they should have really tried harder to work out their differences and russias also perth said that they didnt think that they would noncompliance and theyve offered to after the todays announcement also the treaty is ended they have also offered them our tory m so the question is could there be more done to try to save this really important treaty for europe and we dont think that enough has been done and we certainly dont think that the europeans are doing enough to try to save it as an arms controls expert yourself do you feel that theres still a use for these treaty. Yes should we be debating whether theyre useful today i dont think we should be debating on the usefulness of treaties i think we should actually be debating whether we have these Nuclear Weapons at all anymore and the reason that i can won the Nobel Peace Prize was because we actually helped to develop a new treaty which was. Passed by the un in 2017 and would ban completely all Nuclear Weapons and this is where we want to go we want to get rid of all of them which is actually what obama was talking about in 2009 when he said he was looking forward to a Nuclear Weapon free world what does this latest collapse of the i. M. F. Now mean for i cant efforts and also for this country germany which once again finds itself in the middle of a very tricky situation well it makes everything a lot harder of course because at least we had the feeling that there was a treaty protecting europe but now we have to fight now also to try to stop missiles being brought back into europe which would in dangerous all once again and return us to the same position we were in in the eightys which we thought we had left behind but still we do have this new treaty and we also have nearly half of the countries that we need to ratify the Nuclear Ban Treaty so were quite positive positive about the idea that we will get there in the end youre quite positive that this must be definitely a low point i mean is this an end of an era when do you think is going to replace the system that we have a right now and what is the future of arms control well to be fair we knew this was coming i mean we had 6 months to prepare for this day and we are prepared we have been thinking about what to do and we are calling on european leaders to now stand up and work in the interests of europe and call on the United States and russia not to actually station or deploy any Nuclear Weapons in europe do you think theyll be receptive to your demands well i hope so and im starting with jim and foreign minister santi hall from i can thank you for coming and going we appreciate your insights thank you. When i bring up speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world German Customs officials have seized a 1000000000 euros worth of cocaine found in a shipping container in the port of hamburg well the drug shipments weighed more than 4 tons and is the largest ever confiscated in germany. A trade dispute between japan and south korea has escalated would both countries dropping each others status as preferred trading partners japan said its decision was based on National Security concerns but south korea slammed it as a declaration of economic war and threatened to end an intelligence sharing pact suspected al qaeda militants have raided a military camp put it in the southern yemeni province of witnesses say the assailants killed at least 20 soldiers and battle to get many Security Forces for several hours the militants were eventually expelled from the camp after reinforcements arrived backed by the United Arab Emirates and we stay in the region where saudi arabia has announced new laws allowing women to travel abroad without approval from a male guardian a woman over the age of 21 a will be able to apply for a passport from the end of this month were form signify a major shift away from the countrys guardianship system as things stand right now saudi arabia considers women to be on the same level as minors and gives men almost complete control over their lives well there have been several recent high profile attempts by saudi women to escape their guardians. Well im now here joined by our very own a bit of humor to talk about this latest development before you tell us more about the lifting of travel restrictions against women and women sorry help frame for this discussion the guardian ship system what is life like for women under that particular system well they have essentially no. Agency under the system so. There were many steps in the past years to ease the system but this would put restrictions on whether or not they could take a job where they would study. If they could study this also put restrictions on them getting medical care if a woman for example is detained or put in a correctional facilities shes unable to leave these correctional facilities until a male guardian comes and basically takes her out and the structures through the womans entire life even when shes up to her sixtys the guardianship is passed on from father to husband and then to son so essentially this strips the guardianship system effectively strips women of legal agency in the eyes of the state ok now the saudi ambassador to the u. S. Has called this latest move the lifting of the travel restrictions on women as history in the making is that its a big moment and one shouldnt under play the significance of this again up until yesterday women could not even take a apply for a passport however its important to remember that this is coming by royal decree these are very top down decisions coming in there isnt Something Like a like a like a parliament and then discusses these laws and then votes on them so it remains to be seen if these top down decisions then what would happen once they start being implemented on the ground and whether society is really ready for them and how the more stringent segments of Saudi Society will react to them we have one tweet here that we found which was a reaction to the disk. This is coming from a male a man who said im afraid of this decision for a woman over the age of 20 want to travel without family members or her husband when our religion says a woman should be traveling with a male guardian so it remains to be seen how this plays out once it actually comes into effect thats the whole thing we dont know in terms of bottom up whether there will be widespread support for this but for now it will be the law of the land starting september or end of this month remains to be seen as to when it will come to effect how well society reforming there have been a lot of these decisions i mean remember we had in you know last year the ban off of women driving this was the last country in the world that actually banned women from driving it was lifted last year also with a decree but there still remains there a lot of work has to be done on the one hand theres the social getting society to to catch up but then also we have all of these saudi women activists like jane that has only 2 words we say about her because she is behind bars but she and i think a couple of other women activists have basically people their lives i mean theyre still alive but theyre behind bars to get these reforms in their country exactly elysium is sort of a high profile case she was one of the woman who defied the driving ban when it wasnt allowed for men to drive back in saudi arabia and seen as a group of other women who basically sacrificed for these reforms to actually take place but once you know these reforms are starting to take place shes been in prison there have been reports of her being subjected to gruesome kinds of torture which begs the question why arent these women the women that have fought for these for these reforms out on the streets celebrating basically the gains of their struggle why is Saudi Arabia Still Holding these women ok well keep us abreast on not that as always thank you for a novice and. 5 years ago the socalled Islamic State started its attacks on the religious minority in iraq a campaign of genocide all these images that youre seeing right here a show you see these fleeing the onslaught of i. A. s forces in august 24th teen without food or water an estimated 200 children died of dehydration as people the senate the slopes of mount singe are is edis ancestral home in northwestern iraq or for those left behind life became a nightmare i have spiders and raped women and killed their men well the singe our region has was liberated i should say from the socalled Islamic State in november 2015 but many u. C. D. Still live in refugee camps and thousands remain unaccounted for. But remembers exactly when he last saw his brother it was august 3rd 2 cells 14 went together with their families they fled the approaching high as fighters his brother tried to find food and was caught by the terrorists along with 5 other family members for a long time bashar hoped that his brows i was still a life. No longer have any hope theres no more ah yes. Not in syria not anywhere and only they would have been able to keep prisoners. Bashar and those left of his family currently live in a refugee camp in Northern Iraq like many yes they are afraid to go back home afraid of their arab neighbors who they say cooperated with i guess. But sharons family provided blood samples to the authorities hoping that they were mance of his brother will be found they are haunted by the memories bashar says but still. Better to know what happened to my brother. In march iraqi offered his together with the u. N. Finally began to exhume the 1st mass graves. Many years edis came to witness it. Desperately seeking closure 5 years after i as killed their men and then slaved their women and children hundreds if not thousands of years he used a belief to be buried the disinterment began in cultural home town of Nobel Peace Prize winner and herself a nice victim she called on authorities to protect the mass graves and thus the evidence of what the years hes had to endure. There is not a single yazidi family they didnt taste the bitterness of this genocide they all lost their loved ones their property and their dreams. Blood samples sent bones are being tested in a forensic lab in fact that specialists are trying to identify victims through their d. N. A. And they are searching for criminal evidence. But time has taken its toll the bones have been exposed to floods fire and fighting it could take years experts say to put cases together but the families want answers soon. As a pause them hog of the work will be carried out quickly and not neglected you miss them and i dont want them to start to consume the grapes now and then drag their feet for 2 or 3 years. If you havent been to date only 12 out of more than 70 confirmed mass graves have been exhumed recent viage fires in the u. C. D. Homeland have already destroyed several grace and each day it is getting harder to identify possible victims and to secure hard evidence put Islamic States crimes. Because the reporting there and im now joined in the studio by a german u. C. D. Filmmaker and author does and to call a she documented the plight of iraqs a huge minority in a film called how are my journey to genocide a very warm welcome now in 2014 at this very very dark time in the history of your people you decided to go to iraq with your father because you wanted to explore your ancestral roots by going to the you see the homeland and then of course the i. R. S. Genocide was unleashed on your community but you still decided to go why. Because i had to go there soul to see the pictures today of the genocide and its beginning im very painful and its a very dark week for all of these in the world and in 2014 when that happens to my people no one was interested in the ongoing genocide and that was the reason why i had to go there because the fact that i was. From. Who left the country because of being threatened and the fact that that i was the joining us on the other side forced me to go there and to make a documentary of my life but a very sad one so it was like a life changing moment i went there as a journalist and came back as a human rights activist but there was no other choice because many people were crying and calling me and it was like genocide is happening here at the wood is not interested in that and that was the reason why i went there im very interested in kind of that tension that you that you just kind of described there had like you to go more into it so you want to document as a professional what is going on there but at the same time these are people that look like you sound like you are part of your community would you know paint a picture for us what did you find when you arrived there i find going genocide and people who had feel i saw it and it was a big crisis and of course there was a lot of feel i must try it before i was going there but in the moment when i was there i knew and i felt that i was needed there and i saw the people who just came back. From the tents and everyone of us was seeing the post a picture in the sims on militants and of course there was a big fear people well. Like shocked i would say shock today and there were not able to speak. They were crying and it was like the trauma what is going on here and what is happening to people and at that time many many people. Captivity so we also get colds from the women who are in. Iraq and just heard the names of the cities theyre like oh what im doing here what is happening here and that at that time it was one of the most dangerous places because it was 2 weeks after. We had it and my mother was crying and was like why are you going to the time i said but im a journalist and therefore i have to go and i was very proud that my father came with me but from the beginning when we saw all the refugees who were living there. In the very awful situation i didnt ask any more about my