this is d w news live from berlin at the munich security conference a scathing condemnation of iran from israel's prime minister. mr zarif. you recognize this medium in a time yahoo confronts the iranian foreign minister over a drone israel shot down an israeli air space to iran's foreign minister hit back calling the speech a quote cartoonish circus also coming up our government and president can do is send thoughts and prayers then it's time for a victim to be the change that we need to be back in the u.s.

state of florida grief turns to anger a survivors of wednesday's high school massacre attended gun control rally close to where the attack took place. and on the run from the nazis in modern day europe the first german entry at this year's berlin film festival transfers the plot of a famous novel to the french city of marsay we have a sneak preview of christian pestles new film transit. welcome to the program i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us. tensions in the middle east have taken center stage at the munich security conference with israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu describing a regional rival iran as the world's greatest threat in a speech at the conference netanyahu warned that his country would act against

tehran if needed he also accused the iranian foreign minister of quote lying with eloquence to drive home his points natanya who held up a piece of what he said was an iranian drone shot down in israeli air space iran also denies that it committed america of aggression against israel last week that it sent to drone into our airspace to threaten our people. well. here's a piece of that iranian drone or what's left of it after we shot it down. i brought it here so you can see for yourself mr zarif. do you recognize this. you should be george you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of terror and. do not trust israel's

resolve. and that was the israeli prime minister benyamin netanyahu addressing the munich security conference earlier today and speaking just a few hours after netanyahu iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif dismissed the accusations leveled against his government. you were. the audience for a call to any secret sip is. just this morning. this does not even deserve. a dignity of a response. well our chief political correspondent melinda crane is in munich covering the conference for us and she joins us now for more so melinda iran's foreign minister didn't respond directly to netanyahu the israeli prime minister but his speech did include a great deal of criticism against israel and other countries tell us more about

these two competing philosophies that the two leaders presented today in munich. it wasn't only these two leaders in fact it was a whole range of spokespeople both from the region and also including the former american secretary of state john kerry a russian spokesman and the u.n. official responsible for trying to negotiate peace in syria a whole range of voices and essentially two camps to be detected those who believe that a political and diplomatic solution to the conflicts in the region is not only possible but absolutely necessary and those who say no the great risks coming from a country for example like iran cannot be contained and in fact we need a military response so looking more closely at those two camps we essentially have israel on the one hand saying the agreement with iran to try to contain its nuclear

capacity is not going to stop it from becoming a nuclear power mr netanyahu said in ten years it will be in nuclear power and it will devour the entire middle east he got some very serious pushback following those remarks for example from john kerry who said essentially there is no military alternative if we torpedo the iran agreement we will hear renewed pressure to bomb iran and that will solve nothing melinda today is the final day. a of the conference what is the overall feeling of what has been achieved at this year's meeting. the meeting was entitled the overall title of the conference is to the brink and back with a question mark at the end and we just heard the chairman of the conference saying at the closing he had hoped that by the end he could delete that question in other words we're coming back from the brink but he doesn't feel that's the case and in

fact the hot spots that were named and discussed here range from north korea enormous concern about nuclear proliferation proliferation not only there but because of rising tensions also between the u.s. and russia for example on the use of intermediate range nuclear weapons and whether agreements on nuclear disarmament can hold so that's one whole constellation the nuclear issue then we have still continuing questions about ukraine and tensions there and then of course the middle east so on a number of issues the sense that indeed the world is at the brink and it's not at all clear how we come back all right melinda craned his chief political correspondent reporting from the munich security conference many thanks indeed. turning now to some other news and israel has carried out air strikes against targets in the palestinian controlled gaza strip the armies that have targeted

eighteen sites that were used by militant groups health officials in gaza as that at least two palestinian teenagers were killed during the israeli attacks the operation comes a day after an explosion near the israeli gaza border that injured four israeli soldiers. emergency crews in iran are trying to locate the crash site of a plane that went down with sixty six people on board report say poor visibility is hampering access to the mountainous area the aircraft is believed to have crashed near the town of semi roam the flight departed from the capital tehran and was bound for the southern city. at the airport there relatives are waiting for news about the fate of their loved ones most of iran's aircraft are more than forty years old because of sanctions imposed on the country. to the united states now where president donald trump has slammed the f.b.i. over last week's florida high school shooting that left seventeen people dead in

a tweet the president said the bureau missed signals sent by the shooter because agents were too focused on their investigation into russian interference in the u.s. election well meanwhile students survivors and teachers from the school where the attack happened have been attending vigils and a rally calling for tougher gun control. just days ago these students were running in fear from the florida high school the latest scientific mass shooting in the united states but at the rally they express their anger at the predictable political response to the massacre. i had no thoughts and prayers the house tags all that we need to make such tools he needs there's only so many words that can be said before things move on before the press gets tired of seeing us on the news the four people just changed the channel. they're calling for tighter controls on the sale of

semiautomatic weapons such as the fifteen the rifle used in the attack many of the students said they thought that the country had reached a tipping point. i'm seeing everybody here and as awful as all this is the fact that we are here right now shows that this is nothing like anything we've ever seen before. but at a gun show being held nearby there were some very familiar scenes dozens of assault style rifles were on display organizers resisted pressure to cancel the event in light of the shooting while visitors said the guns themselves were not to blame for the tragedy back at the rally one of the speakers took aim at president although trump she criticized him for focusing on mental health issues rather than the easy access to dangerous weapons she also attacked him and others for taking donations from powerful gun lobby groups. but we need to pay attention to the fact that this isn't just a mental health issue he was. a. savvy

politician who was taking donations from the hour a shame on you. it's a powerful message that resonated with the crowd these young americans will now be hoping it makes it a good way to washington. all right some sports news now and at the winter olympics and kyung chung there were some more dramatic results sunday nine eleven her talking from did always force is here to bring us up to date so one of skiing's greats seems to be on a roll tell us more about that he has a you know the saying good things come to those who wait marshall her the austrian is a perfect example of that it took him basically three olympics to finally get his hands on of gold medal this was his second gold of the games the latest in the men's

giant slalom and he didn't just win marianna he dominated he won by more than a full second one point two seven seconds to be exact that's a huge margin that is huge it's the largest margin in the past fifty years and i think the great thing is about russia finally winning is that we can finally put an end to the mother of all skiing debates and that is is her show one of the best of all time yes she is but what does this time have to do he now has the two gold medals to validate him all right so he had some patience i assume he also worked very very hard to earn that gold medal what about norway they just picked up another gold in acrobatic slopestyle skiing yes they did that gold number one for them their top of the medal standings with twenty five and changed to this man here . and ski slope style is very similar to has. influenced by skateboarding so you see the jumps you see the rails and just pay attention to the complexity of that i

mean he landed with his back he's seeing the top the bottom of this snow and that is just incredible this event in fact was so competitive eight out of the top ten to twelve qualify as had over ninety points this year is the silver medalist that's american made. any other day that jump would have probably helped him to win a gold but it wasn't good enough this time around i'm dizzy just watching guys it's really unbelievable so there's no reason golden slope style and we were just about halfway through the olympics now so who's doing really well and who's not doing so well so norway germany canada off course at the top of the table but traditional powerhouse russia officially you know known as the olympic athletes from russia they've been struggling they've ten medals so far and not one single gold which is coming complete contrast to the sochi games four years ago where they dominated with at eleven golds twenty nine medals in total but we now know that they cheated there was state sponsored doping so and because of that doping ban they only had

one hundred sixty a contingent of one hundred sixty nine athletes so on let's see i mean there's still time but it's not looking good for. talking from v.w. sports thanks for bringing us all those highlights always great to talk to you. now the berlin film festival turns its attention today to the plight of refugees in the shape of this year's first german entry transit is based on a novel by german writer and a sakers about exile during the second world war in a bid to show how little has changed in the last seventy five years director christian petzold transfer of the novels plant to modern day marci. director christian petzold is almost a fixture at the film festival gets a film in the competition for the fourth time this is based his movie on his favorite on a seekers transit. from

the nazis in march say he goes into hiding. to catch a ship to mexico before the city falls to the approaching fascist. he falls in love with marie on the run neither of them are welcome here merely tolerated. or not always on the run but also doing a lot of waiting. i think our characters look very tired and exhausted. set the story in modern day france and this. becomes a drama. based on the fact that we had refugees the one nine hundred forty s. . i was interested to see if we could see judgment of people.

said the right to asylum is today being curtailed something he completely disagrees with. it's a political statement that could play well here at the festival and perhaps also with the cheery when it comes time to. gear up to date on news thanks for watching . everyone minus. channel thirty we have the four seasons stories. these days and that's such a. huge. thing. check it out yourself.