cinematic history from the german empire to the present one hundred or so. starting february eighteenth. this is deja vu news live from berlin shining a spotlight on security diplomats the funds ministers of world leaders gathering at the munich security conference to assess the world's biggest security threats we'll hear from our correspondent at the summit that helped shape global relations also coming up poland's dispute over the remembrance as the country's prime minister

arrives in berlin for talks critics want to know why poland has made it illegal to say there were poles who collaborated in the holocaust. plus the berlin film festival first animated opening feature. because they will get a number of guns wes anderson said i a little dogs and i thought there's a look at the starring role being played by the need to campaign at this year's fest. 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 now the very capitals fairing to kick off the annual event is very high profile one has deployed four thousand police officers to protect the delegates there it's a three day forum that. brings together world leaders top diplomats and military

experts from nato the e.u. and the un to discuss security policy. our chief political editor michelle a coaster spoke to the chair of the conference the german diplomat over isha. ambassador is saying adam walsh has learned of the past year what to expect from the united states how important is a potential confrontation with russia also politically 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 decide about the situation is going to be right here at the be executed conference 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 at 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 for my 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 with north korea which is not going away even though 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

the brain think of crimea unresolved people die every day in these conflicts so they're it's not just one it's three at least and i could give you a much longer list a master thank you very much for talking to us. and joining us live now from munich is the interviewer there did have used chief political editor michel a tough time michel we heard her calling the current situation the most worrisome since the end of the cold war. yes absolutely and he said that that list of potential conflicts is long and that's very much symptomatic for the security environment that has become more fragmented is there more conflicts and just to pick out of one issue of the nuclear threat current in the world where we learnt that the nuclear clock is at two minutes to midnight that means it's it's closer to some kind of nuclear catastrophe that has been over the

past decade going back into the one nine hundred sixty s. and seeing a similar threat level and that's because those efforts of new can nonproliferation seem to be hitting the limits also with the united states saying that they are looking into updating their nuclear arsenal smaller weapons we have the north korea issue and that is notably absent here because we don't really have a high ranking delegation with that slight attempt of some kind of diplomatic relationship again between the north and the south but also other countries looking very closely at what will happen in korea and also what happened in ukraine with a country that gave up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for the guarantees of its border only to see then russian troops on the ground so a big question mark on what the potential nuclear threat in the future could be the tendency is that it is rising and certainly there will be conversations here in munich as well in the game a show you need give us

a background now on on why this conference is so very important and not just for the security committee. but it's very much important because actors that can't really talk to each other officially will be able to do so here we are expecting the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu to arrive very shortly he will also be talking on sunday we also expect the foreign ministers of saudi arabia and iran so all the players will be in the building what kind of talks there will be i'm sure we won't find out exactly. what conversations went on there's also a lot of issues that are less left between the lines particularly in how nato redefines itself with those threats of the future and this is basically the form that might a produce a concrete outcome but that gives plenty of opportunity to move forward on very specific issues michel thanks so much now michel cafe will have plenty more over the next three days from the conference in music new next thanks very much michel.

well the polish prime minister is in berlin today for a visit that was meant to ease tensions with western neighbors but instead he'll be laying out his government's case for controversial new policies among them poland has advised its citizens abroad to report criticism of the country to its embassies worse also stands accused of white washing the role of poles in the holocaust you have used nicholas connelly reports from the polish couple. 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 on 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 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 patrick it's when president obama mistakenly referred to auschwitz as a polish death camp back in twenty twelve he is a ruin of a government sponsored p.r. campaign seeks to redress that imbalance youtube 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 polls 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 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's in the present day germany has still not paid poland war reparations poland lost twelve million of its citizens and fifty percent of it 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 toward 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 poles suffered horribly during world war two there were fantastic heroes 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. also 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 poland's politics. now for

a look at some of the other stories making the news today u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson as met has turkish counterpart. on the second day of his trip to turkey the talks are said to focus on washington support for kurdish militants and on turkey's cross border military operations against them in northern syria. vigilant parkland florida has paid tribute to the seventeen victims of wednesday's high school shooting there many of the people calling for stricter gun controls at that vigil authorities say the nineteen year old suspect used a semiautomatic rifle to carry out the second deadliest school shooting in american history. well berlin's international film festival known as the belly nala kicked off last night the opening film was wes anderson's dystopian animated feature i love dogs tilda swinton in the middle there next to anderson until mary were among

the stars to lend their voices to the characters in the story of a pack of dogs marooned on a bleak japanese island. now this is the first time an animation as opened the belly. the baby no on it 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 when fans who have been waiting in the cold for hours while tilda swinton is busy signing autographs. it's not the first time that a wes anderson finn has opened the band but one thing is the first opening the festival with an animated feature. i love dogs said in a disco piano future japan but the mc proportions outbreak of dog flu rips through the city of make a song. mayor kobayashi issues an emergency order. calling for

a tasty corner 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 are voices for the dogs and they seemingly took preparing for the jump very seriously ever i went with diet i just started doing a lot of dry food and then just everyone throw something out of a can or can i bark. yeah but i got it by there's going to be a reason for b. i'm not alarmed i'm the fin tankless the issue of political corruption above all populists turning people against an entire specious 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. that seems kind of right for the moment. so you know maybe there 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 press. tejas golden instead of a big yes. and that's your news i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us and readers with you at the top of the hour have a great weekend. the whole g.w. one hour. for in focus global insights and the news out there for local heroes. the w made for miners.