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this is deja vu news live from berlin at the munich security conference a scathing condemnation of iran from israel's prime minister. mr zarif. you recognize this. in your netanyahu confronts the iranian foreign minister over a drone israel shot down in israeli airspace around foreign minister hit back calling the speech quote a cartoonish circus also on the program it's a big night for european cinema at the berlin international film festival and
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tonight it's really women driving the prop we'll have the details coming up. hello and welcome i'm michel henery good to have you with us israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has warned that it is a real feels threatened it could take action directly against iran netanyahu made the comments on the final day of the munich security conference and at the end of a week that saw iran and israel as closer to open confrontation israel's prime minister was in hong form when he took to the stage in munich in a blistering speech he slammed what he calls iran's aggression in the middle east here's a piece of that iranian drone. or what's left of it after we shot it down. i
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brought it here so you can see for yourself mr zarif. you recognize this. you should it's george you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of terror and. do not test israel's resolve. netanyahu is a vehement critic of the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement negotiated between six world powers and iran and he sees it as a form of appeasement that won't prevent iran from building a nuclear bomb or maneuvering to become the dominant power in the region. i think it's time to stop them you know they're aggressive they're developing ballistic missiles they're not inspecting and they're going to have a free highway to massive enrichment this has to be changed a few hours later iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif addressed the conference brushing off netanyahu his remarks and calling israel the true aggressor
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israel. uses aggression. as a as a policy against his name they can blame it for ever on iran but that won't resolve their problems. as the fifty fourth munich security conference comes to an end this verbal onslaught seems to indicate more uncertainty. on the sidelines of the conference there was an incident involving a nato member turkey and a top member of germany's green party chen used to me there is a german politician of turkish descent he was staying in the same hotel as the turkish foreign minister security officers told him that the turkish delegation has left him as a terrorist this to me and then received twenty four hour police protection for the duration of the conference back in berlin he had this to say about the situation. yeah it's about from there to one security apparatus is notorious for thugs rough
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guys in many other countries they'd simply be in prison we saw the pictures from washington where they beat peaceful protesters the u.s. congress had to deal with it. travel bans were imposed and arrest warrants are out for these people. i'd like to know if these guys who are wanted in the u.s. are even allowed into germany you know or should i not ising to. also when the spotlight during the entire three day conference was america's changing role in global security detail be used chief political correspondent linda crane covered the event for us and said this is testament of how participants deal with the united states since donald trump became president. there was a widespread sense here that the united states as a guarantor of international peace and security is no longer willing to play that role speakers on the very first day including the german defense minister ursula funday lyon indicated that they feel that the u.s.
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approach is now predominantly focused on military means and on u.s. interests that the us essentially views foreign policy as a transactional affair the question then arose are other powers able to step into the role as a guarantor of a systemic approach and certainly european spokes p.p.p. people here were eager to say that europe is ready and willing to take on more responsibility we heard german the foreign and the defense ministers saying that there is a commitment to greater coordination of european security policy even to europe the european foreign policies and that european countries are now committed to paying more for their own defense but whether they will really step into a global systemic role remains to be seen. turning now to the united
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states where president donald trump has criticized 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 the investigation and to russian interference in the u.s. election meanwhile students survivors and teachers from the school where the attack happened have been attending vigils and the 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. and. i thought that's where. the house tags all of that we need to make actual sheets there's only so many words that can be said before things
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move on before the press gets tired of seeing us on the news before people just change 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. and 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 now by there was some very familiar scenes dozens of assault style rifles are 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
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from powerful gun lobby groups. but we need to pay attention to the fact that this isn't just a mental health issue. she was taking donations from the i don't write shame on year. with it's a powerful message that resonates of but the crowd these young americans will now be hoping it makes it all the way to washington was a search and rescue teams in iran have suspended until daybreak efforts to find a passenger plane that crashed and mountainous terrain earlier today state media say crews were encountering blizzard conditions sixty five people were on the plane . absent relatives gathered at the airport feared the worst as they waited for official word on the fate of their loved ones they asked so many airlines plane
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reportedly came died in interior near the city of yes suge in iran sag ross mountains. iranian media reported per visibility and blizzard conditions were hampering efforts of american sea services trying to locate the wreckage planes like these make up iran's aging fleet which for over forty years old preachers have struggle to maintain and modernize due to impose sanctions president has son ronnie has ordered the transport ministry to investigate the crash and coordinate rescue efforts with passengers families actions for. now just some of the other stories making news around the world the seventeen year old german national known only as linda w. has been sentenced to six years in prison by an iraqi court she was found guilty of membership in the so-called islamic state her case made international headlines after she was arrested by iraqi forces and mosul last summer. in ukraine's
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capital kiev several thousand protesters have called for the impeachment of president petro poroshenko the protesters included supporters of former georgian leader mikhail saakashvili who was deported from ukraine earlier this week saakashvili was previously a governor in ukraine so dust of region and a prosecco ally but he then became one of his greatest critics. symbiote was president emerson when god was as big condolences to the family of morgan chang the veteran opposition leader died of cancer on wednesday he was sixty five when god will pledge that his government will meet hospital and fiddle expenses. the movers and shakers of the silver screen are in the german capital for the berlin international film festival the berlin it opens on thursday with a hint of hollywood but this weekend the focus has been on the leading talents of
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european cinema detail the use david leftists and melanie corrigible are on the red carpet for. david and melanie thank you for braving the cold what's getting people talking down there. well right now we're outside the world premiere of a movie that is very female driven this is. daughter of mine it's by the very promising italian director. and this is this is a movie that's about a biblical story of a daughter with two mothers and in a way things actually so the story is really centered around the conflict around this little girl and what makes it so odd standing is that we have these three brainy strong female leads you haven't abusive biological mother who's claiming the door to back you have the adoptive mother who is fearing she might lose her daughter and then in the center you have the ten year old girl who's trying to
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figure out who she is and trying to develop a sense of belonging this freak i think really moving story three outstanding female leads and that's really what it's about i think this is the first family nona since the me too movement took on and i think that's what people want to see right now so we've got a great female director three very strong female performances in this film it certainly sounds like one not to miss can you tell us what else have you seen. we also saw another movie by two swedish directors called the real estate and it also has a really strong female lead a very strong female lead one you're not sure if you want to like or not this is a very dark comedy not even sure if you can call it a comedy it's about a woman who inherits a rundown building an apartment building and she's sort of fighting with her relatives over what to do with it she wants to kick out a lot of the town and she doesn't have very much sympathy for the tenants in her
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building many of whom are poor immigrants so she's a. woman but one who's pretty hard to watch to be honest and that's actually also a world premiere that's later this evening wow ok and you know the berlin dolly wouldn't be the berlin l.a. without some topical films and we've heard the story today of the german teenager who's been sentenced for joining the islamic state after she began a relationship while she was online and there's a film on this very subject can fill us in on that. yeah it's actually a film that tells a quite similar story it's called profile and it's based on the story of a t.v. journalist investigating how do women get recruited by the so-called islamic state and the way she does it is she sets up this fake facebook profile puts on the he job and starts talking to people online yeah i mean at some point the winds are sort of blurred is she just investigating or is she really being pulled in by this
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extremist recruiter we don't want to give away too much the actress was talking to journalists earlier today the main troops. came in and she was saying that this isn't just about women or extremism this is about also about our presence online and that everyone who is online is at risk so so it's not just glitz and glamour here at the belly not a we did see some of that for sure but there's also some really hard hitting topics about the realities of our world and politico when exactly melanie and david thanks so much we really appreciate that will. and just a reminder of the top story we're following for you speaking at the munich security conference israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu held up what he called part of an iranian drone shot down an israel air space a week ago he warned israel could strike iran itself pregnant iranian foreign
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minister zarif accused israel of using aggression as policy. you're watching news and we'll be back with more at the top of the hour. the whole d w one out. for in focus global insights the news out for local heroes. b.t.w. made for mine.

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