And just a reminder of the top story that were following for you right now people in the german state of bavaria are voting in a pivotal state election that could further destabilize chancellor Angela MerkelsFragile Coalition government polls show her conservative allies the c. S. U. Are likely to lose their absolute majority. Youre watching news from berlin stay tuned theres more the top of the hour and for the latest updates you can check out our website thats dot com or follow us on twitter thanks for watching. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a Military Dictatorship with just one divisional and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have worked off the streets of many can trust and their slogans are always the same fourteen social inequality
a lack of the freedom of the press. Coverage we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see the rightful folds who have decided to put their trust in us. My name is john pearse and i work a day w. From. This week on world stories. Camerons refugees a conflict forgotten. China pitching up at the campus. We begin in syria where its estimated that some two thousand fighters belonging to socalledIslamic State are sheltering in a small town near the iraqi border. Kurdish arabic militias archerd caring and attack. These recruits are here to liberate the last areas in syria held by Islamic State in just a few days the young men from the Syrian Democratic forces will be transferred to the front about thirty kilometers away. Marching shooting practice and tactics the u. S. Estimates that up to two thousand i asked fighters a still entrenched in hygiene. That were dug up the twenty four year old commander of the Kurdish Arab Militia is rallying his troops for the bloody by. Ive lost so many friends so many i cant count one died in my arms and another right next to me there were so many. The u. S. Invited us to visit the s. D. F. As part of the press trip with the group is us commander of the special operations
forces in iraq and syria Major General robertson since twenty fifteen the u. S. Led coalition has been supporting the kurdish militias in their fight against the socalled Islamic State with the air raids weapons vehicles and training. The offensive against the lost iowa stronghold Operation Round up has been running for four weeks now but the militias a making slow progress i asked fighters have dug a Tunnel System under the City Set Up Combat positions and residential buildings and light mines everywhere. Isis is brutal theyve basically been trapped. In the structures as they can and theyve laid out minefields everything is basically you know rigged as weve said so thats a challenge thats all we take most of our casualties we trained you know. The techniques weve got vehicles but its a challenge. Everybody appreciates. The world
thank you. Bought the s. T. S. Might not be an easy partner for the us locals accuse the militia of forced recruitment when question s. T. s command is tennis. Well you did ok We Dont Force anybody to join. The commander prefers to talk about how well cooperation is going with the us and that the n. T. I. A skull ilish and will be needed on the ground in syria for some time. We need stability in this whole area we cannot achieve this without coalition troops. This message is echoed to us by the us commander even after a victory in haji in the mission he is far from us troops will still be needed. In the remnants of isis left there are small pockets small they call Sleeper Cells here so i think those are things that we have to basically clean up on the back side of all of us so again youve heard about the enduring defeat of isis so its not just there are socalled you know physical area that they can fill in order to prevent a resurgence of i. A. S. Local Security Forces would have to be trained and civilian structures established no one here is willing to say how long this could take where the months or year is where left with the impression that its more likely to be is. And of armenian and arabic music mixed with elements of jazz now living in paris shes just given her first concert in berlin. Every artist has their own preconcert Ritual Clinician i mean and prefers the company of friends and fans their style and theres always time for
a few selfies shes excited to perform in berlin which in some ways reminds her of the home she left behind in damascus. I wish. Our apps from many countries are here not just syrians lebanese or palestinians here i can meet people i otherwise would have found difficult to get. You know as well. Leno first a local Radio Station a soulful teaser ahead of the night. Shes keen to reach anon our abode us with her music her style fuses their main and arabic music elements of jazz. Her songs often deal in love pain and exile but she shies away from politics there are ten year concerts try to conjure
a different image of her war scarred homeland. People mostly talk about syrians as refugees out of wars of irish people who had to make a fresh start but see my concerts you experience us as we really are as if we were in our homeland as if the war had not torn us apart as if the problems had never been there. Even so as she takes the stage it is hard to fight the harsh reality her sets include songs about alienation and fear for the refugees in the room it must have felt like their story. Was. From nostalgia to patriotism tears turned into joy it is this mix of emotions that pulls syrians back to lena she my me and. You know we cried at the beginning but
later celebrated in that way i said i felt like Deepest Yearning for home but also happiness and i need im going some songs i felt the sadness and pain of the Syrian People and. Afterwards they even moved their star for these fans. Alaina is the same body meant to syria they remember. Last sundays president ial elections in cameroon were marred by violence for two years now separatists have been waging an often bloody campaign against Government Forces the fighting has forced large numbers to flee many to neighboring nigeria. And stuff it tends for nine people this has been miriam the song so for almost a year ever since the village she used to live in was stormed by cameroonian soldiers with her blind brother on her back and the twins on her she fled into the
forest towards nigeria you know if there is peace in my account i would like to go back i would like to go back because here we are just living as big us because you have to wait on somebody will come and give us what before we eat while we live farms we have planted this we have Yams Everything that you know back home that we have more that we can feed on Three Thousand cameroonians live in this camp some Three Hundred Thousand has been displaced since the outbreak of the crisis in the English Speaking part of kabul it is a conflict that receives little attention and so theres hardly any help or eight for the victims right now we cannot bring in new are willing to die in tribeca what we are providing them in terms of the quote to do is the reality most optician people at the border need i didnt have so funding is really a problem. That need to be addressed the Cameroon Border is only an hours drive
from the camp. Traders and taxi drivers on the border are worried about their existence theres no movement no i dont have so many of you to carry on. Because i dont have so many. Of them but if you do any more because of the crisis inside the prison your movement. Im a sales team and thats because of the crisis i hardly have any customers here back at the camp more and more refugees are arriving miriam the song volunteers to register them. In china when the only child leaves school and goes to university the family goes to since nearby hotels are often booked out a University Inch Inseam has come up with a simple but effective solution to the problem. After a journey of some Fifteen Thousand kilometers this will be. Home for the next
couple of days. The first we were in a big hotel but i didnt want to stay there i want a more authentic experience of how things are here on campus. Chen far is accompanying his granddaughter for the start of his studies hes here together with their mother who is off running last minute errands the start of semester means hotels near the university or often fully booked to deal with a Visitor Numbers for the past few years the university of tintin in Northern China has been pitching tense as an alternative and free accommodation to chat with her parents want to be there when their children enroll of course the students can actually take care of everything on their own and they dont need their parents support but parents want to be there theyre happy to be able to be part of their childrens first steps on campus and. The fleet. Is being picked up by his granddaughter for a quick tour of the campus. Scene is taking mathematics shes part of chinas one child generation. Like other only children shes the sole focus of attention for the adults in the family. Which you know it is. My mother and grandmother coming along because they want to get an impression of the surroundings of my fellow students and my teachers but that doesnt mean that they dont trust me they know i can take care of things by myself. As much as you. More parents and grandparents turn up at the gym. All together the university has put up Eight Hundred tents at the moment not all of them are occupied but some hopes that more parents will come. I want to tell more people that are here the merrier it is us but we
chinese love being in big groups its really nice. Susan is getting ready for his first night on campus the prospect it seems is almost as exciting as it is for his granddaughter. Already be able. To get some equal battle the battleground is modern in all europes biggest salt water the. Same is close to twenty years take on the industrial farms. They had to watch as natural paradise was destroyed by agribusinesses. Now fighting for the lagoon. To detail. What keeps us in
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