lol that she has to do so before. good luck. this is d w news live from berlin shining a spotlight on security diplomats defense ministers and world leaders gathering at the munich security conference to assess the biggest threats facing the world we'll hear from our correspondents at the talks that helped shape global relations also coming up poland's dispute over remember and says the country's prime minister arrives here in berlin for talks critics want to know why poland has made it

illegal to say there were poles who murdered jews during world war two. and south africa's new president gets down to work after the optimism of his inauguration cyril ramaphosa who sets a layout the challenges facing the contrary in today's state of the nation address . plus the berlin film festivals first animated opening feature. because of the burden of conflict wes anderson's aisle of dogs and there's a look at the starring role played by the me to campaign at this year's festival. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show global security is very much in the spotlight at the munich security conference which opens in just a few hours the bavarian capital. it's preparing to kick off the annual high

profile event it's deployed four thousand police officers to protect delegates it's a three day forum that brings together world leaders top diplomats and military experts from nato the e.u. and the u.n. to discuss security policy. i will present trump will not be at this year's event his foreign policy will be looming large that's especially true for european nations under pressure from washington to do more for their own defense. has the impetuous foreign policy of donald trump pushed the international border to the brink of catastrophe or has the us leaders bullying been a blessing in disguise edging europe toward the self-sufficiency it's a long known it means all of the above says then biscoe belgium's egmont institute there's a strong sons i think among along to your member states that somehow the need to

pull together because because nobody is going to come along and surface the more directly opposed to european interests u.s. initiatives or the more european auction you will see that one of the most promising european actions has been the creation of pascoe permanent structured cooperation a pact and so far twenty five european union governments pledging to finally it's change information on capabilities make collective purchases and launch deployments pascoe's cordon needed by the european defense agency e.d.t.a. chief executive or he domestic challenges always come with opportunities and i think in the defense the main that is the case the european union i think has got to the brink walked up and i think we have. to work of it but not everyone's reassured by promises of more contributions and cord nation europe's borders can only be protests. did buy more combat ready forces and the will to use them warns

atlanta council senior fellow elizabeth broad can we if there are threats or an invasion. into one of our countries can respond quickly and if we concert then the money and the won't win that and that's a matter where they spent two percent one percent ten percent will any of this matter if the u.s. and russia continue threatening nuclear escalation which may entirely redefine where the brink is and how close we are to it. our chief political editor michel it's after is in munich right now and she spoke to the security conference chair german diplomat. and asked him what else the summit would be focusing on. i'm asked to sing at the world has learnt of the past year what to expect from the united states how important is a potential confrontation with russia also particularly in syria to the security

environment this is a worrisome situation it's very soon because there are so many powerful actors involved russia the united states as you say turkey iran israel. etc and as a european as a representative of a nato member country we need to be particularly concerned about the fact that this is a highly unusual situation where one nato country appears to be. staging a possible military confrontation against another nato country what kind of crisis for nato would that be if there were some really a clash between the turkish and american forces in the region so this is obviously going to be one of the highlights. of our discussions here in munich and i'm glad

to say that everybody who has something to say and who has something to the side of the situation is going to be right here at the munich security conference where you warn in your report able it's to the brink and back question mark and that there is also a greater potential for accidents in international security so what are the risks keeping security experts up at night. well one of the key ingredients of global stability of peace and security is mutual trust and if there is an absence of trust people don't talk to each other don't believe what the other side is telling them and that is exactly the situation that we have . now had for quite a long time in particular not only but in particular between the united states and russia that is worrisome because. risks of

miscalculation. risks of misunderstanding signals sent by the other side if you don't talk to each other all the time of course tends to grow in the absence of constant dialogue so i'm boring i think the global security situation is more unstable today then it has been at any time since the demise of the soviet union now binyamin netanyahu is here the saudi and the iranian foreign minister so you have people who potentially can resolve a conflict what are you aiming for here what would be a positive outcome well i don't expect the munich security conference to be the place where all of a sudden you know by a stroke of miraculous activity things will get better what i do expect and what i hope is that they will lead least talk to each other the russians to the americans

netanyahu hopefully to some of the actors he doesn't like from the region but i think he needs to talk to them i hope they will talk to him. the best would be if there were a discussion between saudi arabia and iran if there were a discussion between iran and israel that's only a hope not a firm expectation and just briefly what's the biggest threat at the moment in your assessment. well i would say it's not just one in several it's what we were just talking about the the middle east the instability the middle east the risks of major conflict. it's the nuclear problem when north korea which is not going away even though. so we have nice pictures from the olympics and it is the unresolved issue of how we in the west deal with russia think of donbass think of a grain think of crimea unresolved people die every day in these conflicts

so there is not just one it's three at least and i could give you a much longer list and thank you very much for talking to us. and we'll of course have much more from the munich security conference when it kicks off later today the polish prime minister is in berlin today for a visit that was meant to ease tensions with its western neighbors instead he'll be laying out his government's case for controversy new policies among them poland has advised its citizens abroad to report criticism of the country to its emphases worse also stands accused of white washing the role of poles in the holocaust. in warsaw history is never far away. it's a city built on the ruins left by more than five years of brutal nazi german occupation during world war two. more than seventy years own and poland's present

government worries that memory of the war is blurring inside and outside the country. particularly when it comes to the fate of poland's three million jewish dead shifting the blame for nazi crimes committed on polish soil to the poles themselves and downplaying christian poles support for their persecuted jewish patridge when president obama mistakenly referred to auschwitz as a polish death camp back in twenty twelve he it's a rule no. a government sponsored p.r. campaign seeks to redress that imbalance you tube ads targeted it uses in europe in israel seek to open foreigners eyes to poland's war record. more controversially a new law makes it a criminal offense to attribute nazi crimes to the polish nation its critics fear it could effectively criminalize open discussion of the holocaust rendering stories of individual poles collaboration off limits the new legislation has drawn stiff

criticism from israel and the u.s. but for now the government seems unimpressed. by the bench of who you are this law will protect the polish nation and the polish people from false accusations it's just like the laws against holocaust denial because on the go on your holocaust. but for this m.p. from poland's governing party the present lore is not the end of the line when it comes to addressing his country's troubled past. it to the present day germany has still not paid poland war reparations to poland lost twelve million of its citizens and fifty percent of the territory no one has made amends for this. carolyn of the guru is an expert on historical memory and poland's jewish community she says the law was rushed through in a hurry and is dangerously vague it is visible that the government did not expect such or such a reaction that the law was actually poorly prepared and that they

werent able to foresee the consequences we. head to warsaw is only surviving pre-war synagogue before the holocaust the city's jewish community numbered some three hundred thousand people today fewer than ten thousand remain but how is the new law being received here people do not feel restrained as such but people feel is there a place for me in poland today and it's a harbel statement for me to say the pulse suffered horribly during world war two there were fantastic euros of the righteous among the nations the best people in the world and you also have individual poles and sometimes even groups of poles the collaborated with the germans and led to the murder of jews all those statements are true and in a democratic free poland we need to be able to say them openly without any fear of being prosecuted in court. warsaw is booming leaving ever few of physical

reminders of the war on the city streets but the memory shows no sign of fading quite the opposite as the question of who and what to remember comes to dominate politics. now for a look at some of the other stories making the news today a vigil in parklane florida has paid tribute to the seventeen victims of wednesday's high school shooting many of the people attending calling for stricter gun controls authorities say the nineteen year old suspect used a semiautomatic rifle to carry out the second deadliest school shooting in american history. police in new york city say a former high school teacher and his brother have been arrested on federal bomb making charges they had reportedly stockpiled more than fourteen kilograms of explosives in their shared apartment investigators say the two paid high school students to break apart fireworks to extract the explosive powder inside. a major rift has opened up in australia's fragile coalition government as the

deputy prime minister refused to resign over an affair with a female staff member barneys barnaby joyce blast of prime minister malcolm turnbull's condemnation of his behavior as inept joyce's a married father of four who had an affair with his former press secretary who's now pregnant. it is the first day of the chinese lunar new year in sunny beijing thousands of people visited the towers temple to pray for good luck many also took part in other customs that are supposed to bring them good fortune like throwing coins at a bell beneath a bridge. all south africa's new president cyril ramaphosa will be giving a state of the nation address today is expected to lay out his plans for reviving the country after the jacob zuma europe is already promised to tackle corruption one of the key issues that brought down his predecessor but with the economy struggling he could face a tough job living up to the optimism of his inauguration i didn't plan. the

only. polls. that paul said that it probably got some of the moment the nation had been waiting for the new leader promising a break from the past would be issues that you have raised issues that have to do with corruption issues of how we can straighten out our state owned enterprises and how we deal with state. is issues that are on our radar screen and i would try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of south africa thank you very much. and on the streets there was jubilation as south africans welcomed their new president. to do days they i'm like i'm rich this is the happiest day of my life. was gone not in

who did that he was upset that. graham opposed his political career spans more than four decades he was a close ally of nelson mandela and played a key role in south africa's transition to democracy later overlooked by mandela from a post of focused on his business interests said to be worth around three hundred sixty million euros now in the top job involving to tackle corruption there are many challenges ahead. south africa is rich in resources but many live without electricity or running water health care and schooling remains rudimentary in much of the country eight out of ten nine year olds are illiterate unemployment remains alarmingly high more than two thirds of young people are jobless. a lot has been lost and it's going to take several years to recapture lost ground without

a doubt. but hopefully hundred new leadership especially in the realm of course that we would story who invest some of the lost ground and in the long to the sky's the limit with this country. the task of reconstruction has now begun. to change an e.s.l. tactic is merely to will set out his plans in more detail in a speech on friday evening. there's plenty ahead in the show including wes anderson's new film noir love dogs that opened the berlin film festival was it a pedigree picture or a mug of a movie we'll take a look. first mark is here and who should be paying for cleaning up germany's dirty diesels how about the taxpayer bryne certainly taxpayers could foot the bill for the update over polluting diesel cars that is what government advisors argue they

are in favor of that particular idea it would see owners of affected cars receive an incentive to have them modified in the same time relieve comic has from their responsibility to bear the costs for the necessary conversion germany is under pressure from the european union because the nitrogen oxide emissions in many cities are so high cost with diesel engines are considered the main cause the german government hopes it can avoid driving battens. on for more let's cross over to her daddy a koba financial correspondent in france that idea first is a gauge with huge penalties in the us but little compensation for german motorists and now they're even expected to pay for an upgrade to keep diesel engines rolling the car industry must be ecstatic. yes sounds like a very good deal but yes for who for the carmakers and not for us who are maybe

dealing with diesel cars at the moment yes the industry is very much under pressure at the moment moment monica next thursday we're expecting a verdict off a court in a light deciding if we might even see the first diesel car ban in the city of happening if this would be the case we can be sure that many other cities would follow and those upgrades those are actually discussion very controversial in many cases also from external and also from experts from the car industry because those updates and upgrades are mostly software updates and yes it is pretty much clear that the oxide emission would get reduced but at the same time then the car needs more gas with the result of higher carbon dives that in the air so yeah this is very controversial being discussed here on the trading floor sound sounds like a vicious circle for sure now german insurer audience has presented its earnings

reports today it looks like natural disasters took their toll the company's net profit fell twenty two percent in the fourth quarter twenty two percent quite a drop is it all down to the weather. gets ready two percent sounds like a lot but when you look at the entire year of two thousand and seventeen the profit off the company actually went up by zero point four percent as zero point four percent also not too exciting but when you compare our against two other insurers such as the new greedy it seems and that's what i'm also hearing from investors that they were able to manage this herrick and season very well remember those tropical storms like harvey and e.m.r. they hit a lot of insurance companies very hard and also the u.s. tax reform is giving the company quite some headache they are saying that in two thousand and eighteen though the tax reform then could maybe even help the company

. there in frankfurt thank you so much for this. well saudi arabia central bank has signed a deal with the u.s. based cryptocurrency ripple which was designed especially for banks and global money transfers the program will allow banks in saudi arabia to use recall software to settle payments sent into and out of the country it has its first cooperation with a central bank other banks such as u.b.s. and santander already cooperating with a startup from silicon valley. and hyperinflation has hit venezuela cash is in increasingly short supply bad news for everyone aside from a few tech companies that have been able to cough out a nisha amid the crisis. this is the kind of scene you can expect if you're hoping to access cash in venezuela soaring prices have led to shortages in paper money and long lines at a.t.m.'s. but the country's hyperinflation has produced

some surprise winners in the business world small tech companies offering shoppers mobile payments one of them is viable. its founder says venezuela's economic crisis has sped up what was already a burgeoning trend. in twenty ten and twenty eleven that electronic payments were going to be a trend globally. fit into his record what's happened is that it's accelerating in some countries for various reasons. so perhaps our economy will become cashless before that of denmark which put more efforts into payments. venezuela's central bank might have inadvertently accelerated the trend they slowed cash production when inflation was soaring now consumers have discovered fiat's convenience and make that point that i've made that i think that for me personally

it's very practical to pay with it. because it enables transactions. that the only thing missing is more information about how to manage the op and it's technology. that. app developers in business well it usually don't need too much starting capital salary expectations among coders are low and electricity and data costs next to nothing still the boom in mobile payment apps is a result of the bust in nearly every other sector of the economy. last night here in berlin was a night for dull columbus even though it's the berlin film festival brian talk about a film that could become a key nine classic consorts market belongs international film festival the belly dollar kicking off last night the opening film this year wes anderson's dystopian animated feature aisle of dogs tilda swinton in the middle here next to anderson

and bill murray among the stars lending their voices to the characters in the story of a pack of dogs in the room donna japanese island. and this is the first time an animation is opened the berlin film festival. i bet he not only has never seen the likes of this before drummers drumming in the opening movie and director wes anderson and been mary jump up to join in the music while in fans who have been waiting in the cold for hours while tilda swinton is busy signing autographs i am. it's not the first time that the west enders and finn has opened the band but one thing is to first opening the festival with an animated feature. i love dogs set in a disco pina future japan but the proportions outbreak of dog flu rips through the city of make a. mere kobayashi issues emergency orders. calling for

a sleepover to trash island becomes an exotic on. the isle of dogs scarlett johansson jeff goldblum and a host of other top class actors provided they have voices for the dogs and they seemingly took preparing for the jump very seriously. i went with diet i just started doing a lot of dry food and then just everyone throw something out of a board and i bark. yeah but i got it by there's going to be a reason for me i'm not alarmed i'm the fin take list the issue of political corruption about all populists turning people against an entire speechless and movie was a political meaning even though it wasn't planned that way to the island because. we've been working on this movie a long time the world began to change in the movie and we offset. it seems kind of right for the moment. so you know maybe they were tiny places along the way where

we were getting new inspirations from real life that were finding their way into the movie. and now all of the movie has found its way to the berlin film festival in competition for the prestigious golden and silver banners. to the winter olympics now and a shock in the women's solemne as hot favorite michelle is different fish out of the medals the twenty two year old american could only manage fourth place trailing winner free to one starter by four tenths of a second shiffrin said she had been sick before her first run she initially blamed a virus but later put the vomiting down to nerves meanwhile the swiss team has confirmed two of their athletes have contracted the highly contagious norovirus one of those athletes is florian bosch the freestyle skier became an internet sensation earlier this week after posting this video of himself clinging to an escalator the swiss are the first athletes to catch the virus until now it's only affected

security staff and games personnel. let's get your miner now of our top stories at this hour some of the world's top diplomats and defense leaders are arriving in munich for the city's annual security conference that kicks off in a few hours the syrian conflict and north korea's nuclear program are expected to be high on the agenda. and poland's new law banning people from accusing poland of holocaust atrocities could overshadow the talks today between the country's prime minister and the german chancellor in berlin critics say as part of a broader crackdown on dissent by the polish government. this is the interview news for now thanks so much for joining us and don't forget we'll be back at the top of the hour but.

one tree international talk show for journalists to discuss the topic of the week the u.s. and russia threatening said upgrade their nuclear capacity is china is expanding its own small but then there's north korea the world on the brink of the new nuclear arms race trying to average. next w. . mahatma gandhi. he fought against

violence his whole life. only to die for his convict. that's not the way to the modern mind this was no don't please it is not. a new song to wind down. dying for freedom mahatma gandhi in forty five minutes on d w. barely feel. the scars on most of all. the pain still tangible. the suffering for gone. through cities. they have survived do they also have a future. i really understand people who say they don't want to stay here. but they also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create

something. in peace time what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance of darkness cities after more starting march tenth g w. o n a very warm welcome indeed to this latest edition of quadriga coming to you from the heart of the un's defense and security experts from around the world will be gathering here in germany this weekend for the highly influential munich security conference that comes at a time when experts say the wolf is on the brink on the brink that sees a new homes or a swell of a bright certainly there are growing tensions.