The World Economic forum in davos is expected to make excuses for the war certainly that is a mirror of the first policy you can be good for them to do abuse counseling as more. U. S. President donald trump is in davos touting his message of America First who will World Leaders listen and have a home for the World Economic forum and ill have more coming up. And also ahead turkey bounce a continue a controversial offensive against kurds in Northern Syria well look at how turks at home are reacting to the campaign and the risks for those who dare criticize. The former i is militants were turning home from syria a former assistant fire tells us why he joined the extremists and how he owes them at least good. Morning. Leon. All right thank you very much a free a Company Everyone all right we start off our broadcast with a science. So the greater in china the baby monkeys that you see right behind me they look like theyre identical actually researchers created them using the same cloning method that produced dolly the sheep almost twenty years ago the monkeys are primates and just like us humans and now the question is being asked are we next me chills sean and why they might just look like two cute baby mechanics but they also represent a breakthrough that has excited scientists around the wild the monkeys are clothes the very First Successful clones of a primate using the method to produce dolly research is that the Chinese Academy of sciences presented them to the public this week the purpose of doing it and use monkeys experimental animals is really for the human health for the cure in a few meant izzys there are many other animal models you can use you can use mice was widely used but there has been difficulty. In using that as animal model for human disease because mice are very far away from humans the process took over a year and one hundred twenty seven eggs almost eighty viable embryos and that bevy of host mothers to produce the two babies its hoped the clones could be used to studying diseases like parkinsons and Alzheimers Research is say clones like these could help them glean results that would be more pertinent to humans but this breakthrough also begs another question can we clone humans and should we the burial of cloning primate species is. Over. In principle any private including humans can be caught but all purpose of produce will call months use is purely for human benefit for medical purposes we see no reason of call of humans. But despite the assurances it seems the debate around possible human cloning is once again on the agenda. Well it is considered a major biomedical breakthrough in raising also many many questions were going to try to tackle a scientific angle with their aquariums our science editor and martin gagged you know hes correspondent for religious affairs and ethics will help navigate some of the ethical issues that have come up as well want to start off with you if i may dare to give us the state of play before we Start Talking about this specific case about the the world of cloning because since dolly the sheep we had cloned monkeys cloned dogs dogs excuse me and many different mammals why well there are a there are about twenty different species that we clone now want to regular basis and many of them have theres a variety of Different Reasons we clone mice for example for Research Study purposes we clone cowls because they can then we can get callus that deliver more milk and we can be certain that theyll deliver more milk so there are a wide range of reasons why we clone animals this is definitely this is definitely moving in the direction of medical research cloning monkeys we dont have any we dont raise monkeys for food so what exactly it was so whats talk to us live it more about the significance of this breakthrough or well its very highly significant because its going to really smooth down medical testing its going to make it happen more quickly and easily because if youre working with a group of genetically identical individuals that are actually very close to to human beings evolutionarily then youre going to end up in the end with products that are probably going to work a lot of the time with medical research you go in with mice testing and it works and by the time you get to human testing it doesnt anymore because if the differences are just too great the differences between humans and monkeys are very small are very small is that already raising some ethical questions there for you martin well i mean it raises of course i think questions i mean which is the production of subjects for experimentation i mean this obviously is a question journalese speaking we tend to think. But only human beings but people i mean that you know all ninety miles understand this very well i mean we are not simply dealing with biological material one of the issues that we need to ask ourselves how we said that were going to actually account for the way in which were trading and the status of this clone individuals this is obviously an ethical question that cannot be ready leannes here but this is one of the things that is on the table there is also a question which was debated in the late ninetys and theyre really not i mean then it subsided about sort of the genetic makeup of the clones so there were issues concerning for instance aging aging. Aging markers other genetic a level that were found to be the fish and lets say i mean we cannot go into a full explanation in dolly in the famous she. This things were somewhat put aside as concerns but sort of there is still a pandoras box effect and i think we do not understand the full significance and significance and impact these are things that will have to be discussed but we will we want understand the significance and back until we dont really large scale studies and the question is is i think its still up in the air how large scale do we want those studies to be close are we realistically to be able to clone human beings are you asking me for my opinion yeah a little bit and i would say were probably going to see it in the next ten to twenty years while this is for us you are out there probably working on it right now but its considered criminal martin in many countries i mean winters i dont know if in single case in which human cloning is actually permitted essentially goes there bioethical medical ethics protocols which in theory at least play internationally known bill is part of a promise of Regulatory Frameworks are of course stronger in some countries i mean others and many of the countries i mean the translation countries are doing it already we dont know if theyre doing it already but countries like china which have a lot of might in technology i mean these are enormously powerful technological bolz. Which have a lot of means at their disposal how much weaker Regulatory Frameworks and theres another interesting aspect to this which is that a lot of a lot of of the research thats being done is very very closely related to this for example for example research into embryonic stem cells which have really issue could have a huge medical impact so its very you know drawing those lines that clearly is really not a simple or easy task give me one really compelling or so compelling reason in favor of human cloning. Im not in favor of human cloning so its hard for me to get in his age in a situation where it would be called for to continue with this type of research i think that this is one for the assist well i think that the strongest arguments are not i mean it will take this one i think that the strongest arguments are really concerning the moment of genetic fitness to solve to solve essentially or to cure or to cure in this is i have very strong reservations about human cloning very strong reservations but i think its very your view is that the potential for medical cures are just enormous i mean really beyond beyond the imaginable these are very strong arguments because we are still committed to the health of her populations we still wont be even if youre not going to ration where you are critically ill absolute at how absolutely so that its a very very strong argument that this should be said which is this is a wonderful gift that does have small print and we have not read through the small print yet and this has to happen right on that note of brave new world for all of us thank you so much for breaking it down our science editor and i think jack our ethics at it my pleasure so much talk to you both. And now to some of the other stories making news around the world. A top u. N. Official has warned against me and maurice plans to repatriate the nearly seven hundred thousand three hundred refugees who fled to neighboring bangladesh he says its not safe for them to return home and that members of mian mars military are still attacking ranch of villages a man maher says is ready for the returns to get. Afghan officials have raised to forty eight the total number of People Killed in last saturdays attack on a luxury hotel in the capital kabul Health Ministry official says twenty five afghans died in addition to fifteen foreigners taliban militants claimed responsibility for the assault a Train Derailment in milan italy has killed three people and injured more than one hundred twenty passengers were trapped and have to be freed by rescue services the cause of the crash has not yet been established. Authorities in france have issued flood alerts across the country after heavy rains in the capital paris authorities have shut train stations and rail lines due to the rising river waters and some areas in the suburbs have been flooded the region has had twice as much rainfall as normal in recent months. Youre watching early news we still have a lot more to tell you about here is whats ahead returning home after serving the socalled Islamic State we hear from one ex fighter from chechnya about what drove him to join the extremists and eventually escape. But before that i want to hand it over to have you know whos got some more news from davos thats right news from davos that immediately affects the currencies as well because the reactions of what leaders are saying is having an effect on the euro for example with its search to a fresh high after European Central bank chief mario draghi highlighted what he called solid and broad growth in the common currency area the euro jumped about one percent to its highest level against the dollar since mid december twenty four teams but druggy called the Exchange Rate volatility quote service of uncertainty that needed monitoring he also took an indirect jab at u. S. Treasury secretary Steven Nugent for saying this week that a weaker dollar helped us trade the e. C. B. President responded that Global Leaders had a longstanding agreement to refrain from competitive devaluations. And we stay at the World Economic forum because donald trump has arrived in davos as a spectacle and its all about America First the president s visit comes amid announcements of new chair of set by the u. S. Government that have been heavily criticized mostly between the lines of other davos speakers in his first day at the World Economic forum trump held several bilateral talks behind closed doors. The big moment has arrived donald trump is in davos mr America First himself and whats mostly been an assembly of multilateralist the elephants in the room have names like trade wars and punitive tariffs expressions that stand for the u. S. Is in a word pivot in contrast to european appeals to look beyond borders but thats not a unified stance the british have a tight rope to walk they have to sell themselves as a country open for business despite brags that impending free trade is a topic that i have discussed with the president of the balls were very keen that well be able to do that Free Trade Agreement where we leave the European Union with the United States of america that we are all that of avoiding working on how we can shape. May and trump are due to meet in davos today ahead of trumps arrival u. S. Treasury secretary steven minucci was already selling his bosss strategy over the lots of meetings again lots of discussions just focused on International Trade whats good for the United States is good for the rest of the world in terms of growth what that actually means in practice has not always been easy for the International Trading community to decipher many in davos will be searching from speech on friday for additional clarity on the. As we just saw a british Prime Minister the reason may delivered her speech today trying to downplay bricks and needless to say its still a controversial topic earlier humphrey spoke to keep participants in davos to find out what they have to say. To get a reaction now im joined by the chief economist of i h. Market Nariman Behravesh thank you for joining us what did you make of to receive a speech well clearly brecks it was the elephant in the room and i think everybody came through to hear speak and that and the anticipation that you talk about brets and she surprised everybody by in fact talking up tech which ive play devils advocate a little bit out you know the contrary and if you think of of the future of the u. K. Ten years from now lets say you know so many more important its technology is Artificial Intelligence and the bricks will be there are many things going to disappear but in the whole scheme of things with the technology and preparing for it and making sure its fair thats really going to the term in the future not just of the u. K. But other countries as well so i cant really fault her for sort of taking this call high road if you want to call it more optimistic sort of view of the future here and now there is the reality of brakes at the uncertainty of it and she left it to the british finance minister Philip Hammond to address that on a panel this morning and he said that the city of london being overtaken by europe was just a fantasy but he was having a fantasy because some of those jobs have already moved to europe or indeed they have i think it will be very different than it was on any london maybe a smaller Financial Center but theres a lot going full on then i dont think ones going to disappear as a Financial Center the real question is where are all these jobs going to go theyre going to frankfurt paris im not so sure they may go to new york so the new york ironically maxie benefit to some extent more than these other cities but yeah i mean london will will diminish and its role but it wont go away i mean this was a lot going full on them and briefly i think it was roundly seen as it is all straight speech from theresa may last year hey in davos and you think that european leaders have softened a told towards her and braggs it has dogs in one year old i think the british governments attitude and an approach is a little more realistic now that is somewhat unrealistic approach the brics and i think so the u. K. Softens to some extent become a. Realistic i think other european leaders have as well so i think yes i think we but the atmosphere certainly has changed because of. The attitudes towards promised them a chief economist now remember the sean i h s market thank you for your thoughts. Back over to berlin now though set maybe more break speeches to come in the future and well have more Business News and of course more from the World Economic forum later on for now its back to layla for a court case focused on germanys colonial past because a new york court has held a hearing on a case brought by Indigenous People in the maybe demanding compensation from germany for a colonial era genocide a century ago german troops and settlers kilt of thousands of her normal people it was then called german salt west africa well the current lawsuit calls for representatives of the ethnic groups to be included in the negotiations well heres our report on how a genocide committed more than a century ago is still affecting people today krista condors family lives in poverty and she says thats been the case since the war with the germans one hundred thirteen years ago although her family does own some London Eastern namibia its nothing more than a few sheet metal huts in the middle of the plains krista says the plots of land to bear and to grow crops a real home lies three hundred kilometers west of here where she says her family used to own a farm on fur thailand until the germans expelled them from its crystal has a photograph of her grandfather he had left on the old farmstead back then as a small boy with his mother. On you when the german soldiers attacked our property my grandfather and his mother fed his mother starve to death during that escape he was captured and put into a labor camp later he was able to escape and return home but by then our land belonged to a german so my father started to work for him and tended the case that had been taken away from us. Christer is not alone every year thousands of very rare and nama people commemorate the genocide committed by the germans imperial soldiers supposedly poisoned this water source used by the herero since then the locals call it the well of deadly stomach pain or his word will go go go go go member this man says theyve come to speak to their ancestors theres another reason why theyre doing it here this is where a german general gave the order to expel the herero from their land and drive them into the desert. Christer has also come like the other women she wears