barbarian act as we have seen the killing of a lot of people including women and children in doman syria needs an answer the assad regime as well as russia who are they protective of power there they have to understand this speaking to me earlier that was peter buyer the german government's new coordinator for transatlantic cooperation an advisor to the chancellor on american german relations invited more about that story as well at our website w dot com in other news the human rights group amnesty international says the number of reported judicial executions around the world fell during twenty seventeen but the group warns that the true number of people put to death is not known some countries treat execution numbers as state secret china for example and it's often the case in china and in other nations executing their citizens capital punishment is often very public. iran responsible for carrying out more than