darkness city after. starting march tenth. this is deja vu news live from berlin russia and the us clash well nato and the e.u. search for you to be at the munich security conference the us national security advisor claims there is indisputable evidence that moscow interfered in america's election a plane russia's foreign minister dismisses as blatter and germany's foreign minister says berlin no longer knows what to make of washington's policies also on

the program. the turkish german journalist dennis so they're glad to be free after a year in a turkish prison but he expressed concern for the many other journalists still behind bars. live from the red carpet of the berlin film festival and we'll give you all the details of what happened today stay with us and grab your popcorn. welcome to the program i'm michel henery thanks for joining us security in the european union after brics it and transatlantic toys in the trump era those were the topics dominating a second day of speeches at the munich security conference here in germany german foreign ministers of more gabrielle and british prime minister theresa may were among the leaders that took to the podium to outline global security challenges and

their visions to fix them the event is considered the most important and it will gathering of security policymakers from around the world. if i may risk. our chief national correspondent linda crane has been covering the conference and she joins us now from munich hello melinda the german foreign minister said more gabriele earlier today expressed concern about germany's main ally the u.s. under president obama trump we have a clip of this let's have a listen. germans are sometimes irritated when we look across the atlantic we're no longer certain that we recognize american these things do we have to assess the u.s. by deeds by words by tweets. and in america. so what kind of foreign policy does gabrielle want to see. or the foreign minister did emphasize in his speech as he had to us yesterday in an exclusive

interview that he absolutely believes that europe germany and the u.s. must continue to work closely together and he also had warm words for the u.s. of the past saying that his own childhood would have been entirely different if it hadn't been for us and gauge made in post-war germany but he then went on to say in view of the impression here that the trumpet ministration may be disengaging from europe it's all the more important that europe itself move forward with coordinating not only security policy but also foreign policy he said this is the time for a european moment. we also heard earlier top russian and american officials exchanging some very harsh words over the u.s. indictment of the russians accused of disrupting the twenty sixteen u.s. election in light of that to what degree is cyber security a topic and you nick. absolutely a big topic it is

a perennial issue here at the security conference but this year i would say definitely more focus and also a broader look at the topic in the past cyber security has generally been seen as hacking the use of the internet for extortion or to damage infrastructure but this year there's an increasingly strong sense that we need to be looking at the use of cyberspace for the purpose of subverting democracy and that was very much on the agenda today as you mentioned there was also quite an intense exchange between the u.s. national security advisor and the russian foreign minister. and we also have a short reaction of laughter off who was asked on the panel about the indictments let's have a listen. but the more because long as we don't have the facts everything else is just blather please excuse my own diplomatic language. us national

security advisor master spoke directly after lavrov melinda can you tell us what his response was to that. or just a additional word on what mr boucher of had to say he went on to say you know what we're being blamed not only for involvement or interfering in the us election but also for the referendum in catalonia and for breck's it and frankly it's all myths and mr macmaster the national security advisor of the us countered that with very strong words he said i quote the us absolutely will expose and act against those who are using cyber space for espionage or for purposes of subverting democracy and he also went on to make a bit of a joke mr thou for off had referred to russia's cyber experts having looked into this issue and concluded that there wasn't evidence of russian interference and mr

macmaster said he was surprised that there were any russian cyber experts with any time on their hands get it given how many of them had been involved in the work to interfere with the us election. chief political correspondent linda crane thank you very much. also in munich took as prime minister but only a dear and 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 said no one has the right to question their government he also said relations between germany and turkey are improving this a day after ankara released a turkish german journalist after a year in prison. a free man once more after a year in custody speaking from berlin denise you chel said he'd been held hostage by turkey he didn't mince words describing the turkish justice system. just as my

arrest had nothing to do with justice and the rule of law my release also has nothing to do with either of those and. in a tweet you chance that he's now left germany and is with friends it's not clear what triggered the journalist sudden release some have speculated it could have been a weapons deal or an agreement to join the e.u. customs union german foreign ministers it denied those claims it can't there is no quid pro quo there is no deal neither clean one nor dirty well. but even as you chill was set free six other journalists were sentenced to life in prison for allegedly trying to overthrow the turkish government among them are the brothers mehmet and time there are still over one hundred journalists in turkish jails just like tens of thousands of government opponents. my releases left a bitter aftertaste i left behind a cellmate with whom i was together for the past two months he's

a turkish journalist who was jailed merely for doing his job. he and many other journalists have been imprisoned for doing nothing more than practicing their profession. five germans still remain behind bars in turkey presumably for political reasons he chose that his only release won't be the end of their story. two more about those journalists who have been sentenced in turkey you can read our interview with ahmed alton sister saw them on our website d.w. dot com. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a military helicopter has crashed in southern mexico killing thirteen people and injuring fifteen others all on the ground it was carrying the country's interior secretary and other officials assessing damage from a powerful seven point two earthquake in the hawkeye state helicopter landed on its side crushing a van pope francis has renewed

a commission on clergy sexual abuse the move comes as francis faces heavy criticism for his handling of scandals involving pedophile priests he may not i do members to the sixteen member commission which includes abuse survivors the commissions initial three year mandate ended in december. a court in pakistan has sentenced a man to death in the case of a six year old girl who was raped and left to die in a garbage dump her murder sparked a violent clashes between angry protesters and police prosecutors said the attacker confessed to killing eight girls in total. these nigeria at least twenty people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide attack at a busy fish market three attackers were believed to be behind the blast just outside the state capital. the city is the birthplace of the book of iran extremists insurgency.

and the gems of this year's european cinema are in the spotlight as berlin star studded annual film festival gets into full swing sarah hartman and melanie has been taking in the day's big films for us and she joins me now from the red carpet so we've had the first german competition entry. yeah that's right the first german competition andrea is called trans and it comes from director chris john had sold and it's based on a novel that was written in one thousand nine hundred forty four about a group of refugees who were fleeing the nazi occupation all right so the nazis are just outside paris and a young man desperate to free the country assumes the identity of a dead writer he takes his papers he goes to say and then when he meets a mysterious woman his well that's turned upside down and the film has a twist because this film is not set in historic marsay of the forty's but in modern day mars say the past in the present mix it's hard to tell what's reality

and what's a ghost from the past it's really powerful filmmaking we have to say christiane president is playing to a home audience here this is his fourth film at the berlin film festival who's a german director but it got a really good reception and i don't know about you know but i think this is one of the how long you have any of you could be a good contender for the golden bear and is a similar face in european film expected on the red carpet shortly. yeah that's right any minute now we are expecting things to get underway for the premiere of eva this stars isabelle paris she's the famous french actress some would say iconic french actress and interesting role in this film doesn't she really does but this story starts again with a dad right and that this time it's not identity but it's someone's work so we have this young man he takes the dead right to his last manuscript he publishes it under his name and then under pressure to deliver on his new. story he chooses there's

a very interesting character of a high end prostitute eva eva and of course that's is about a pair it's not a very foreign role for her she likes the sexy roles she's great at them this are fifth collaboration with director ben was jaco it's dark it's sexy even though she never takes her clothes off is a billion pair has a great amount of just dynamic eroticism if you like that kind of thing you'll probably love this film we're certainly hoping to get a glimpse of her a little later on the red carpet and can you tell us briefly what are you look for for to seeing. yeah i think we're both looking forward to ed sheeran's so his cousin made a bio pig about him he companied him so we learn about his songwriting his singing and he's expected to enter a company as i write this famous ginger crooner is coming to berlin for this biopic that is next week so so a lot to look forward to of course that film isn't in the competition category and i think that a lot of people are looking forward to is the rest of the competition films on

saturday one of them is going to win the coveted golden bear still a lot of screenings to go there are nineteen films in the competition category so you can see the fun is really just getting started here astaire and melanie thanks very much. the bundesliga match day twenty three is well underway so let's take a look at all the results so far this weekend leaders find munich fought back from one nil down the wolfsburg to win two one thanks to robert lewandowski late penalty by eleven and are up to second after a two one victory at how plus hamburg bottom side cologne two one one with had over and freiburg defeated vertebrae and then one nil on friday night mines the heart of berlin schalke are facing hoffenheim right now on sunday take on stick art and glove box battle dortmund on monday night frankfurt face leipsic. they're calling

it one of the biggest shocks of the winter olympics a check snowboarder has won alpine skiing super g. event her name is. and she took the fast super g. course head on deck a has won gold star both gold twice but after her final one down the pyongyang course she found herself winning skiing one one hundred of a second ahead of defending champion and the fight of austria american skiing icon lindsey vonn seemed in line to challenge until a massive air at the bottom left her tied for sixth place. japan's using. you has become the first men's figure skater to defend his olympic singles title and sixty six years on use record setting short program made in the favorite going into the long program the dawn of the road led a one two japanese finish as compatriot sharma you know took silver. and just a reminder of the top story we're following for you day two of the munich security

conference is underway here in germany the british prime minister to say may and germany's foreign ministers of more gabrielle were among today's notable speakers the animal three a conference is seen as one of the most important events on the diplomatic calendar. you're watching news from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get the latest news and information around the clock on our website dot com thanks for watching. we make up over but we want tons of food and out that if we all of the civil service are. the ones to shape the continent's future. part of it and join youngsters as they share their stories. their challenges the sim seventy percent of these platforms for africa charge.