this is d.w. news live from berlin and russia and the us clash wall nato and the e.u. search for unity at the munich security conference the us national security advisor speaks of indisputable evidence that moscow interfered in america's election a claim russia's foreign minister dismiss this as blather and germany's foreign minister says berlin it no longer knows who want to make of washington's policies also coming up the turkish german journalism done as you jel says he's glad to be

free after a year in a turkish prison but he expressed concern for the many other journalists still behind bars. and law from the red carpet of the berlin film festival all have all the glitz and glamour coming up for you later on the show. hello and welcome i'm marrying evanston it's good to have you with us. we begin with the munich security conference taking place at a time when alliances that can the world stable for a decade are under strain for its part germany is unsure about the direction that the united states is taking in syria the u.s. and turkey support opposing sides and in europe there is braggs it and the rise of right wing populist. or less armament fueled wars

protesters want to make their message loud and clear to world leaders attending the munich security conference and now in its second day the conference is taking place under tight security a mirror image of global uncertainty. for us europeans it must be clear that in order to maintain our values our prosperity and our security in the world of tomorrow we have to stand united. and appeal against nationalist uni letter alyson protectionism and for a joint european defense policy in a time when established security structures are under strain the war in syria tensions between the u.s. and russia disagreements between key nato allies and within the european union. breaks it for example is raising questions about the future of defense policy without britain but prime minister theresa may try to fierce calling for a new european security deal. europe security

is security and that is why i have said and i say again today that the united kingdom is conditionally committed to maintaining it europe discord on the inside a united front on the outside it may be a far off dream but a european defense union is underway even if some view it as competition for nato. yes we want to emancipate ourselves but not against nato or the united states. the message from unique for europe there can only be strength in unity. and our chief political correspondent linda crane has been covering the conference and she joins us now from munich melinda the german foreign minister saying my gabriella who spoke earlier today he expressed concern about the reliability of germany's main ally the u.s.

under president trump we have a short clip let's have a quick listen. perhaps this explains why we germans are sometimes irritated when we look across the atlantic. that we are no longer certain that we still recognize america these days. should we measure america by deeds by words by tweets about. we can look back on a complete mutual success that can provide security. the cooperation between the u.s. and europe in nato continues to be the miracle of our security and freedom for someone what kind of foreign policy does guardrail want to see. well he emphasize. in his speech today as he did in an exclusive interview with us yesterday evening that the u.s. and europe must continue to work together and he also had some warm words for the

u.s. he said that without u.s. and gates meant in germany after the war he would have had a very different childhood so he did temper his his doubts or concerns about the u.s. in that respect e.p.t. said nonetheless what we need now is a european moment we need to european coordination not only on defense itself but also on foreign policy we need more cohesion and we need a real investment in working together in europe going forward but we also heard today tom play u.s. and russian officials exchanging some very harsh words over that u.s. indictment of thirteen russians who are accused of disrupting the twenty sixteen election in the united states in light of that indictment melinda to what degree is cyber security a topic in munich this year. it absolutely is a topic and more so than in past years past years have talked a lot about cyber attacks in terms of extortion hacking and

so on but here for the first time there's been a concerted effort to talk about the subversion of democracy as a security threat so yesterday for example there were discussions with the head of google with the heads of facebook and microsoft and certainly as you mentioned there was also that exchange between the russian foreign minister and the national security advisor of the u.s. on the same subject so absolutely on the agenda here with many people saying this is a risk that will only get worse in future are id w.'s chief political correspondent melinda crane reporting from the munich security conference thank you. all. also in munich turkish prime minister benelli yielded him issued a strong defense of his government's right to defend itself he said turkey was a constitutional country where the rule of law is strong and he said no one has the

right to question turkey's government he also said relations between germany and turkey were improving this day after ankara released a turkish and german journalist after a year in prison. touching down at butlins to go at port dennis your child was once again on safe ground freedom at last after one long year in prison the german turkish journalist spoke his first public words in a video posted on twitter last night. i think everyone who supported me all here three hundred sixty seven days if i remember correctly my lawyers my people my friends from the president his campaign my family the german government for its efforts and of course most of all my beloved. and it was his wife who was the first to embrace him outside the prison walls.

you child was held in istanbul's high security syllabary jail with months in solitary confinement. the correspondent for devotes newspaper was detained a year ago on allegations of spreading terrorist propaganda. until yesterday no formal charges have been brought against him. nothing to explain why he was kept under pretrial detention for more than a year of course. turkish judiciary is not independent at all. now prosecutors are seeking up to eighteen years imprisonment for you child but they opted to free him ahead of a trial german diplomats escorted him from jail german chancellor angela merkel had pressed for you child's release. because for him and his wife.

we know that there are also other cases of people perhaps less well known who remain in prison in turkey and we hope that their legal proceedings will also be resolved quickly. as you charles release was announced a court in the same building sentence six other journalists to life in prison without parole. among them the prominent brothers mehmet an homage both accused of being involved in turkey's failed two thousand and sixteen coup attempt . all right it's been an eventful day eight so far at the winter games and we saw history on the ice and a major shock on the ski slopes. sports joins me now to break it all down so alina let's start with that big upset in the women's super g. tell us what happened so it was definitely one of the biggest upsets in the history

of the winter games so what happened as. they kept them she's a twenty two year old from the czech republic she's a two sport athlete her main sport is actually snowboarding and you see those skis those are not even sure if she had to borrow them from somebody what else and she was really seen as a threat people didn't realize how good she was and at the end because i really thought lindsey vonn would win it comes along and she just knew everybody away. and until today it's really interesting because you can even see the shock in her face she was surprised she thought it was a mistake but until today she thought that she was the better snowboarder but it turns out she's the better skier so some hidden talents there for sure well and what about in men's figure skating we hear we saw history being made tell us about and we did an all saints to that man over there honey you he's the first man to win back to back a limpy titles in the men's figure skating that hasn't been done for the past sixty six years and just look at him he's elegant he is

a leg he is magic on ice and he actually was even struggling with an ankle injury he's hot that seems novembers saw he knew he had to push himself and at the end it was a one two for japan and they also took so silver and is also a special day because javier penang this who took bronze that's the men on the right and that's the first time that they didn't pick gold in figure skating for spain and you almost see. we need those we need to prove we're going to get you but there's a reason why you see all those stuffed animals and well now i have to ask what is with all those when you the toys so those actually harmed you the japanese figure skaters that was the biggest gator that won gold that's his lucky charm there was so much but because of sponsor and branding reasons he's not allowed to bring them with him on the ice so a lot of fans now always bring them with him throw him throw them on the ice and they all go to a good cause actually he donates all those we need to put stuffed animals to charities so i'll make

a lot of kids happy after that performance and yeah i mean i don't know i wonder if those good luck charms had anything to do with him winning the gold i mean athletes can be very superstitious indeed and it certainly didn't hurt. for thank you so much. all right everyone the gems of this year's european finance are in the spotlight as berlin's star studded annual film festival the berlin allah gets into full swing sarah harmon has been taking in the day's big films for us and she joins me now from the red carpet hello to you sara so we're going to see a big german film premiering today which one is it. you know that's right today we saw the premiere of the first german film in the competition category the film is called trans and it's directed by christiane petzold and mary out of this film is actually based on a book that was written in one thousand nine hundred forty four by amazon tells the

story of a young man who's fleeing the nazi occupation who finds himself in the city of moore say awaiting passage on a ship that will take you to safety unfortunately things get a little mixed up in the city of marsay and what's really interesting about this film is that it's not set in the historical city of marjah say but in modern day france and more and i have to tell you the effect. watching this film about persecution set in modern day is completely jarring and really really powerful christian petzold if you don't know who directed the film barbara which international audiences might be familiar with but he's a home grown talent it's his fourth film here at the berlin film festival and it's early days but i think this is one to watch when it comes to the golden bear all right it's also been a big day for some european heavyweights what can you tell us about that. yeah that's right so we also saw a french film premiered today it's called eva it stars isabelle pear the iconic

french actress she's a big star here in europe a household name and in this film she's playing a very sexy role she's a prostitute who's flirting with a younger man the younger man thinks he's tricking her but as the film shows she's actually the one who has most of the power is just one of a row of films that we've seen where women are taking on really strong roles here isabelle pair is a big star here a lot of people were outside earlier hoping to catch a glimpse of her we're expecting the red carpet premiere for that film in about an hour and a half's time so i'll have to let you know what she's wearing what the glamour factor is and if anyone manages to get an autograph she's known for being a little booty all right sarah well i look forward to hearing more of your impressions of from the birla nala sarah harmon reporting for us from the burlington of all many thanks indeed.

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