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spotlight at the munich security conference which opens today the bavarian capital in southern germany is preparing to kick off the annual high profile event it has deployed four thousand police officers to protect delegates it's a three day forum that brings together was leaders top diplomats and military experts from nato the e.u. and the united nations to discuss security policy. the us president donald trump will not be at the see as event but his foreign policy will be looming large the specially for european nations under pressure from the u.s. 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 u.s. leaders bullying been a blessing in disguise edging europe toward the self-sufficiency it's long known it needs all of the above says ben discovery of belgium's egmont institute there's

a strong i think among your member states that somehow the need to pull together because because nobody is going to come on the surface the more directly opposed to european interest u.s. initiatives are the more european auction you'll see 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 exchange information on capabilities make collective purchases and launch deployments pascoe's corden aided by the european defense agency e.t.a. chief executive or he domestic challenges always comes with opportunities and i think in the defense the main that is the case the european union i think has got to the brink walkup i think we have. to work on it but not everyone's reassured by promises of more contributions and accord nation europe's borders can

only be protected by more combat ready forces and the will to use them warrants atlanta council senior fellow a lizard with broad hand if there are threats or an invasion. into one of our countries can respond quickly and if we concert then the long and the won't. matter whether we spend two percent one percent or 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. and nuclear escalation was a question which our chief political editor. put to the chairman of the munich security conference the phone would have been deployed much wolf. 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 worrisome 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 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 beach security 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 firm expectation that just briefly what's the biggest threat at the moment in your assessment. well i would say it's not just one 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 a brain 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 master thank you very much for talking to us. so that was a me talking to both now joins me from new next week to describe the current security

situation as the most difficult since the end of the cold war what more can you tell us about his concerns. yes really there's two issues here the first was the fragmentation there are many different com conflicts and the international diplomatic scene has become more complex with a perceived withdrawal of the united states as a pro prominent international force that is something that the international community certainly learnt of the past year and then more specifically you have the nuclear threat you have north korea where for the this olympics truce is going on during there's a limit games with the many question marks whether that will outlast these really beautiful pictures from the olympic games and what. also stresses that there seems to be a loss of trust particularly between the use of the united states and russia let's just remind ourselves we did see u.s.

bombs actually killing russian nationals on the ground in syria that is a new quality of potential confrontation there and of course nato allies suppose it allies turkey and the united states being on different sides when it comes to northern syria so there's a lot of reason to talk but it seems there's not very much trust to go around at this moment in time many high profile visitors and experts are attending give us a foretaste to what we can expect from this conference at issues where they could be some movement. well we certainly expect a keynote speech from germany's defense minister was there from the line with germany also being in the spotlight on how much money they will put to its pledge of actually taking a greater role in the future and also on the whole middle east issue we have been met in yahoo the israeli prime minister here with potential for talks there but have too high expectations when it comes to such an informal gathering. that we had

in munich thank you very much for that. and we'll bring you all the latest updates from the conference track today. and over the weekend now after a heated exchange between washington and on korea on thursday u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson sat down with his turkish counterpart today in hopes of easing tensions over their diverging interests in syria the u.s. is backing kurdish fighters their fight is a turkey describes as terrorists after the meeting to this an arch turkey to be cautious in their cross border military operations against the syrian cuts have a listen call on turkey to show restraint in its operation to minimize the casualties to civilians and avoid actions that would escalate tensions in that area . from the beginning we've been transparent with turkey regarding our objectives in syria. we have always been clear with turkey that the weapons provided to the

syrian democratic forces would be limited mission specific and provided all an experimental basis to achieve military objectives only that was the us secretary of state rex tillerson the polish prime minister coming to butt in today for a visit that was meant to improve prickly relations between the two neighbors instead he living out his government's case for new policies which many see as highly controversial among them pulling his advise its citizens abroad to report criticism of the country to its embassies while so also stands accused of white washing the role of pones 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 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'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 battery it's 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. adventure when you are this low will protect the polish nation and the polish people from false accusations it's just like the laws against holocaust denial going to 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 the g.a.m. say it to 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 the 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 horrible statement for me to say the poles 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. 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. that support an economy now to some other stories making news around the wide a vision park in florida has paid tribute to the seventeen victims of wednesday's high school shooting many of the people attending called for stricter gun control authorities say the nineteen year old suspect used a semi automatic rifle to carry out the second deadliest school shooting in u.s. history. south africa's new. it was a will deliver his first state of the nation address today he's expected to lay out his plans for reviving the country after the jacob zuma hears a says he also outlines tests to track the corruption one of the key issues that brought on this but he says. a major rift has opened up in australia's fragile

coalition government as a deputy prime minister refused to resign over an affair with a female staff member barnaby joyce blasted prime minister malcolm turnbull's condemnation of his behavior as in net joyce's a marriage father for who had an affair with his former press secretary she's now pregnant. you're watching the debate is coming up ahead wes anderson's new film i love dogs openings this is bill in film festival was it a pretty agree picture or a lot of a movie after the critic has the verdict. but first to monica for business news in germany's ongoing problems with dirty fuels yeah and a very strange solution could be just around the corner there should german taxpayers foot the bill for the update of air polluting diesel costs and government advisors argue in favor of the idea it would see owners of affected cost receive an

incentive to have the modified and at the same time relieve comedy because 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 too high cost with diesel engines are considered the main course and the german government hopes it can avoid driving bans. well an interesting combination of politics and business which is why i'd like to turn now to open at a correspondent nina has an ina who came up with that idea the taxpayers should foot the bill for diesel upgrades and how likely is it that the new government if we get one will adopt it. well you mentioned the key the key word there is the fear of driving bans that is putting the german government under tremendous pressure in actual fact next week we have a court ruling here in germany where

a court may actually argue that we need driving bans that not only are they allowed but that they need that they are required to improve the air quality and at the moment some seventy cities here in germany are considered to be of poor quality and the pressure has been growing that the german government is desperate to find solutions they've come up with various measures so it wouldn't be the first time that the taxpayers are actually paying we've seen bonuses for people who convert their cars individually we've also had the suggestion that public transport could be free so this is the latest attempt and of course we have to look at the current government coalition that is the same one as the one that we could potentially see in april so if this government comes into force then yes we will also see those measures in place but wouldn't clean the engine simply be the solution i mean why is the german cami industry seemingly let off the hook here in germany there's

going to only be explained with a very special role that the car industry has for the german economy figures vary but some people are saying up to seven jobs out of ten sorry one in seven jobs depends on the car industry here in germany and to the larger extent and of course there is a very strong lobby right there on the the solution for diesel gauge here in germany thank you so much. 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. its first cooperation with the central bank other banks such as the essence and already called prating was a start up from silicon valley. and

a lot of hollywood glamour here in berlin right now and we saw a very quirky start to the belly not amrita that's right monica and the vernons international film festival known as the billion dollar kicked off last night the opening film the sale was wes anderson's animation movie i love dogs tilda swinton you can see here in the middle there next to anderson and then margaret well among the stars to lend their voices to the characters in the story of a pack of dogs marooned on a bleak japanese island. and this is the first time an animation movie has opened the berlin film festival. the bambino on it has never seen the likes of this before drummers drumming in the opening movie and director wes anderson and being 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 film has opened the berry no live but one thing is to first opening the festival with an animated feature. i love dogs set in a disco piano future japan but. outbreak of dog flu rips through the city of memphis on. mayor kobayashi issues an emergency order. calling for a sleepover to trash island becomes an example come. along. 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 kid. and i bark. yeah but i got it there's got to be a reason for me i'm not alarmed i'm the fin takers the issue of political corruption about all populists turning people against an entire species and movie

with 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 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 owned a movie has found its way to the berlin film festival in competition for the prestigious golden and super bass. to day seven of the winter olympics in kong chong and there's been plenty of drama up in the mountains today to tell me more about this i'm joined by jonathan crane from. jonathan now there was a lot of an exciting finish to the ribbons snowboard cross fun but bad news for

a legend of the sport to a small indeed and reach for the snowboard cross always produces lots of thrills and spills i like to think of it as formula one on. a competitor is often so close to each other lots of jumps we can see here as they go into the course not how fun stop they are no wonder then we often see lots of collisions now the interesting back stories of this one the legend are talking about american lindsey jackie ballast she's won so many world championships extreme against hearts was never the olympic gold that she was in contention for much of this but look how close that finishes to us. please see them wiping out on the light it was won by fleas mckayla more yesterday she ever took jack about midway through the course so unfortunately jack about it still is not one of limpid goat she's thirty two now so it's unlikely should get another chance in beijing and for this instills is what is said now we also the host nation had some good news they won a second gold who's the person who made it to the top that would be a union summer been in the men's skillets and now he's picked up the monitor iron man because of his a red suit so i think we're going to see it now and he really did put in

a superhero performance emery that he was totally dominate that dominance in this one he went faustus you know four of his runs he broke the track record on this run you can hear the support just pools look at them cheering. korean flags their way the ended up finishing a huge one point six three seconds ahead of his nearest competitor that's a huge margin and this comes at the first time an asian athlete has won a major event and the skeleton and the korean new new year starts today say the perfect way to kick off a celebration absolutely up to the ski lift if there is no station when they win a medal and let's talk about we had a shift in skiing she won a good in slalom on thursday but she didn't have that much luck this time if she won gold in the giant slalom on thursday the slalom today it's her favorite event she actually won it four years ago as well in sochi but a bit of a shock because she could only manage fourth place now i think it's testament really to how dominant she has been because this four requires so much consistency it's a very precise ball one mistaken question and that's really what happens here on

her second run she finished her office just on the hottest seconds behind the events when a free to hand starts from sweden now the thing about this assistant she said she felt sick she was sick before the first run she initially put that down to some kind of virus type symptoms later though you have brains nerves you might not think that given the success of a calm exterior but apparently just get very nervous before her races like you but i hopefully she isn't have these normal vies which is many people there including not some athletes confirmed it with the slides for the first. yes the swiss team has confirmed that two of that athletes the two freestyle skiing is. norovirus now and one of them will be free from any issue of the u.s. because we saw him earlier in the week very little value in first manuals at the start of the viral videos because such just playing to the escalator that he was also doing an improvised ball ball in the in the car park but it's now he's in the headlines for a different kind of viral reason unfortunately this is the first time as you say it

involved athletes was a huge worry before the games because around two hundred people were confronted how the virus mainly security stuff and now it's highly contagious causes vomiting and diarrhea but as we're out to hear the i.o.c. say things are still under control let's take a listen protocols that are taking place they're not staying in the village i should say and. we're hoping that they make a swift recovery as you know which schools. these things these two things do happen to say we approach has been taken and we in the swift recovery i gather it can be pretty pretty swift and they could be competing so that was the i.o.c. response to this we see more so appear confident of the athletes are going to recover in time where we understand they are feeling a lot better now there are events that used to take place next week so hopefully they'll be fit for that yeah absolutely i hope to get for it soon but meanwhile what it's going to look forward to be feet johnson today well there's still lots of sports we've seen that's the men's figure skating so the individual events is

taking place as a cross-country we've got some hockey things that still kind of sports plenty of medals to be decided and obviously the koreans will be hoping for more so there are numerous celebration still get more of a cake that's right jonathan green thank you so much in this what's so spectacular thank you for bringing us all of the action. you're watching the news coming to you live from but and she has a recap of the top story that we're following for you some of the world's top diplomats and difference leaders are arriving in munich for the sixteenth annual security conference that kicks off today the syrian conflict and north korea's nuclear program are expected to be high on the agenda. i'll have more news for you coming up in half an hour see you then. move.

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