player. you're watching news live from berlin the syrian government intensifies its brutal bombardment of eastern monitor say more than two hundred seventy people have been killed in the damascus suburbs since sunday four hundred thousand residents are under siege also coming up a breakthrough on macedonia germany's chancellor merkel believes one is close an end to the dispute with greece over the fledgling state's name there rao has

prevented macedonia from joining nato and the european union. fighting for their lives as students in the u.s. state of florida demand tougher gun control laws in the wake of last week's school shooting but our lawmakers are listening. also coming up it is day twelve of the winter olympics and chang a superstar skier lindsey vonn was aiming for gold in her final one thanks to find out whether she clenched it and. we're live from the red carpet of the bell and all of the world premier of my brother's name is robert and he's an idiot yes that's right it's the film that has it all incestuous magic and three hours of gentle city day jeans that.

thank you for joining us we start with mounting international concern about the syrian government's ongoing bombardment of eastern ghouta new air strikes today have killed at least twenty four people and independent monitors say that more than two hundred seventy people have been killed in the rebel held area since sunday now eastern goto is a group of suburbs on the outskirts of the capital damascus and duma is the main town of the enclave and right now it is completely surrounded by pro us forces they say there are only bombing rebel fighters the sea just thought to have trapped as many as four hundred thousand residents. in the carcass of eastern goods these are the lucky ones terrified shaken but still walking. through the first responders osher them to safety as an air raid siren underlines the arjan seen as the escape yet.

the government's four year long aerial siege of this rebel held in place has intensified in recent days. with hundreds killed and injured and to national observers it marks a new epoch of violence. we are witnessing some of the worst fighting of the entire conflict and the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure including medical facilities. joints received reports of attacks on five hospitals and these things go into and is working to verify these reports of the casualties. the syrian opposition leader begged for an international response saying the atrocities amounted to a war crime. these people these children had been killed just out of their midst the evil. because of the bomba of this in every team on the on the militias. their

forces they are claiming that this artillery it's the these are children and that is all five years. the bloodshed is so relentless here unicef issued a blank statement in response to the u.n. agency for children said words couldn't describe the suffering. which is left to numbers to tell the story of this devastation but even monitoring groups can barely keep up with the daily death toll here. more on the story now with martin milius from the aid organization care in amman in jordan mark and thank you for joining us we saw such horrifying pictures there and the report we're hearing also reports of civilians are collapsing from hunger that the medical situation is extremely dire how much has the situation deteriorated in

the last few days. we have seen. a ration off the besiegement in the last few months. old basically this area as you mentioned in the report is already besieged since for use or ever since a number of months and all the tunnels were closed all the checkpoints were closed so the situation before the military escalation in the last two days was already very dire we have seen the monitress generate soaring we have seen shortage of essential items drugs and medication and now we are witnessing in the last few days is military of elation and own thoughts on that in a place which basically made many care and how they didn't choose to. suspend our operation just because of. the duration much of what are the most pressing needs on the ground right now. now it's really i mean the most first and

foremost any to be a cease fire i mean the u.n. called yesterday for it and we're totally supported there must be a cease fire we have in casualty rates president essential series in their yacht children mothers civilians we see civilian infrastructure targeted that is outrageous that must stop immediately and we are also concerned that this is just a prelude for a ground offensive. and that would make me just much much worse of course people on the ground they need they need safety but they also need for the medication i need to assist. the injured people i mean it's just. lifesaving intervention that's required right now but first and foremost really a cease fire that's what we're hoping for. just briefly martin if you can you mentioned that organization aid organizations like yours haven't been able to access this area in the past few days but in recent months how much access have you

had. i've been very limited in the last few months and these town halls are particularly you know it's it's a suburb of damascus has been deceased since for use in the last year it's had been extremely difficult for the last convoy that way and then was in the gambler and had enough items for around thirty thousand people and there was around round about four hundred thousand feet those that are locked into that area full access has been very much limits already for a number of. martin lilias from the aid organization care and on in jordan thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today. thank you for having. staying in syria and turkey has vowed to press on with its offensive in a free and despite a planned alliance between kurds in the region and pro-government to syrian forces turkey's president russia typer to one claimed his country's forces were hindering

the deployment of syrian forces enough rain there are fears that damascus is involvement in the region could further complicate syria's bitter civil war. now to some other stories making news around the world the u.s. state department says north korea canceled a planned meeting with vice president mike pence at the last minute he was supposed to hold talks with government representatives during the olympic games in south korea pyongyang reportedly scrapped a bad idea after pence denounced the north as human rights abuses. brazil's senate has approved a decree that authorizes the army to take command of police forces in the state of rio de janeiro now the measure comes in a bid to curb violence driven by drug gangs brazil's president michel temora said they have virtually taken over urban rio. and at least five thousand people have been cut off by landslides and hundreds of tourists stranded after a powerful storm battered new zealand's south island the storm was the tail end of cycling which tore through several pacific nations last week. german

chancellor angela merkel says an end may be inside for one of europe's longest running disputes the chancellor says macedonia is closer than at any time over the last ten years to reaching an agreement with neighboring greece over its name this as merkel welcomed her macedonian counterparts around science to berlin for talks greece has long objected to the name macedonia saying it implies a territorial claim over greece's own northern region also called macedonia now athens has vetoed scorpios membership for the european union and nato because of this dispute said macedonia the country was on course toward joining the e.u. but did not specify a date. and we're joined by rodney last check in scott the macedonian defense minister thank you very much for being with us on our program today mr keating scott now i want to ask you about this dispute over your country's name this is a dispute that has been going on for decades what is it that gives your prime

minister confidence that it could now be ended so quickly in july. as they say nothing great was achieved without a bit of help to miss them so in a way we have jumpstart jumpstarted the reform agenda in the country we have ended a dispute that we have had with bulgaria and concluded an agreement just two months after we were elected a new government so we have shown a different kind of policymaking a different kind of behavior a european behavior in the balkans and we do believe that this can work also in case. with the issue of our dispute with greece of course it takes two to tango and the success will depend on both governments and both sides wishing to end the dispute but the discussions between the two prime ministers gave us hope that both of the countries will seize the opportunity because it will help both and

greece so it's not just the government so you know the macedonian people seem optimistic about resolving these disputes not so much the greek people we have seen demonstrations there does that present another challenge i believe every compromise especially between two countries will leave a certain part of our population dissatisfied we won't get an applause just for solving the issue probably both governments will get criticism but the role of governments is to solve problems and lead and not surrender under pressure of groups individuals parties that might actually prefer a divided europe a divided balkans so this is why. whore's governments are there to be criticised but governments are also there to solve issues now and ask you've been a big big advocate of becoming a member of nato and the european union you said in an interview at the end of last

year that your country has been stuck for ten years that this is important and you also said that this is important for your country to stave off nationalism and we also saw some of those pictures of your parliament last april were extremists stormed the building why do you think membership in the european union and also in nato will be a force against nationalism after all we have seen nationalism within the e.u. itself. we have strived for becoming a member of nato and e.u. practically since our independence and this is one of the goals that unites the country macedonia is a very diverse country in terms of ethnic groups religious groups languages and if there is really a point where everyone meets including different political parties this is the strategic objective to join in the west in a way the west join the nato alliance join the european union and it has been an excellent encourage and most for our reform when we got the greek veto in two

thousand and eight for our nato membership it made the country more frustrated more isolated and politics vacuum does not exist so it gets fairly and it play into things including nationalism i don't believe that nato and you can by definition win over nationalism a problem you know they want but giving hope to the people given the prospect of stable more integrated region and continent giving them the perspective for economic growth which usually comes with nato membership and e.u. is the only end to doat that we can offer to this continent when fighting nationalism and we have seen this for example in two thousand and five and two thousand and. six one must join your made an excellent fast step towards the e.u. and the country looked as the positive example in the balkans this is what worked now fast is the key word there because chancellor merkel today said she does see

that your country is on course to join the e.u. how quickly do you think that will actually happen how hopeful are you. on nato the reforms that we have done in the past and now actually allow was the hope to expect that in july we could get the invitation. and is of course a slower process a more demanding one. and it's more diverse it covers many many aspects we are not governed by date again we don't set dates we set goals and our goal is really to transform the country and improve some of the weaknesses so for us it is very important to return to the trek which is e.u. and nato and then the dates will follow depending on how how quickly we transform the country and we deliver results you other defense minister i do want to ask you about nato because there's a lot of pressure on nato members right now to spend more at least two percent of

their national budget is macedonia ready for that. yes we have come up with a plan how to increase our budget our defense budget when we were close to nato membership in two thousand and eight are actually defense spending was two point seven thousand percent so we actually may be the target even without this being the target but right now after ten years of decreases the situation was not great so this is the year when we have increased the defense budget for twenty fifteen percent and then we have made a pledge to increase it zero point two percent points every year making the target on time we have also increased our participation in nato led missions such as the one in afghanistan by twenty percent and we are continuing our support for the case for mission kosovo so the perspective for macedonia is good a red rag me like shit in macedonia defense minister thank you again very much for joining us on our program thank you for the invitation.

the latvian defense ministry says corruption allegations leveled at the country's central bank governor a part of a disinflation campaign from abroad the ministry says claims. bribes in return for keeping a banking business were intended to erode trust in the euro zone state elections in october if it has rocked the small baltic nation which blames close neighbor and political russia. says he's a victim of a smear campaign he's accusing private latvian banks of trying to get revenge for tougher financial regulations by accusing him of demanding bribes of one hundred thousand euros a month. i have become a target have a. campaign of some latvian commercial banks to discredit the latvian state. but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry

said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign in a statement it said there is a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show latvia as an untrustworthy ally. to ministry didn't say which country was behind that campaign but there's little doubt it meant russia the russian foreign ministry in moscow refused comment but the bribery accusations come from a russian businessman. and with elections due later this year fears are mounting that the kremlin could be attempting to sway the outcome the defense ministry says that dissin from asian campaign closely resembles others that preceded recent french german and us elections. is editor of the german language newspaper pulled in one shot in walsall. let's start off with this so-called disinformation campaign how likely is that and what evidence is that

well first off we have to make sure that everybody understands we're speculating here because nobody knows the and so you get if it is a misinformation campaign from brussels some other country or whomever but i would say it's quite likely because the us has so on and i'm sorry russia has all been demonstrated in the past that they're willing and ready to interfere in elections in the democratic process in other countries such as the us elections they've tried to do the same in the french and german elections so it's quite possible especially in a country like a lot which has been dependent on russia for so long and which has been a thorn in russia side you know joining the european union nato and also the euro currency so. there are other factors that could play a role here monday lost money laundering charges by the u.s.

ministration against the largest bank and stuff like that but it's quite likely that it's russell involved too but we're not talking about meddling in the affairs of the world's top call me the u.s. we're talking about a tiny nation what what would most go home to the chains. well i would say they tried to meddle militarily and politically and countries like ukraine and georgia who are not safe in terms of being nato members and e.u. members in latvia estonia lithuania those small baltic countries that were once part of the soviet union they can't do that so they have to be more subtle they have to find other ways to do it i'm as i said before i'm speculating here but if russia wanted to meddle they would have to do it in the most subtle way such as this putting a wedge between lots of other european union euro currency countries for example

what is the response from the kremlin. well there hasn't been a response yet as far as i know all there will be i think all there will be just all we do have nothing to do with it because if they did it and we have to stress this point we don't know yet but if they did it they don't have to do anything more those days so the seeds of distrust between lotfi and the european union and it's going to be a success for them but. it's not clear yet the other interesting thing here is that latvia as a you as a member so wouldn't this be not only an attack on latvia but also want to tackle the e.c.b. . well you know that's absolutely true and. if they did it that's what they were trying to do because this man has been chairman of the lothian national bank for i think seventeen years now he's also a member of the council of the european central bank and this is this is all pretty much interconnected so that it's in direct if not even

a direct attack on the european central bank as well as that's why they might be trying to do this he's paper at a technical compound thank you very much for your analysis. the berlin international film festival is in full swing here let's go right to charlotte sell some pill and scott roxboro down at the red carpet good to see you both what's been the action there today so far. hi there yes we have just had the wild time yet of the jenin film my brother's name is wrote it and he is an idiot snow she looks like a that's really what it's called a short time ago these does take the right call but it's a small cost in this film they carry this three hour epic that is this story. directed philip gooding was on the red carpet wow this film deals with a really lighthearted topic doesn't do as you'd expect it's what it's about incest

and murder. but stretched out over three hours of a lot of discussion about german philosophy i feel like i wish i had been warned before i would just have done this film with going to be but the director said that he had to deliberately made it quite safe because he plays very much with the concept of time in this film and that's something that this director done before is probably the most famous one was a documentary he did called into great silence which he looks at senator monks and it's an almost silent movie that really takes its time to emerge in the world and that's sort of what he wants to do with this movie as well he wants to give the audience time to really flow through these characters even if their whole periods of time might be quite bored watching it i have say i was a little bit more specific when in class yes i'm definitely one of the films that you expect at the bell another one of the heavier ones and you guys and you'll be back later in the show with a bit more. yeah tonight we've got the world premiere unsane the new film from

ocean's eleven director steven soderbergh starring clear for what you might know from the netflix series the crown you're playing a very different role as a woman pursued by a stalker yeah well say have they have more violent things that's what the a reigning in film pig this time though it's a comedy so please if you laughs all right looking forward to talking to you both scott and charlotte down at the red carpet. ok it's been an action packed day twelve of the winter olympics we have that herman from sports with us here to talk about it that we first have to talk about downhill skiing lindsey vonn going for gold again yes she was going for gold again and again it was just slipping through her fingers that she had a great race as it turns out a mistake free race which is not something she has always managed at the olympics the two in the third was italy's sophia god joe who took gold she picked up speed

as her race went on overtaking vonn in the end you know vonn was expecting her to be a rival so people got to has been pretty pretty great downhill race for the last few years but actually pushing on into the third was finishing second round of norway which was a real surprise she took silver in the giant slalom earlier in this games but this was the first time she had ever finished on the podium in a downhill you know a world cup type race so it's just more of bad luck for lindsey vonn tough for lindsey vonn but she should be happy with francois now there was a scary moment today a crash on stephen ross tell us about that yeah kevin drury of canada was just ahead of one of his russian rivals in the final sarah get rid sick and they were going over a jump and riddick clipped drury just a little bit in the air sending them both down to the snow landed very hard he

actually broke his pelvis in this crash the race did conclude in the end they were able to get it done two of the racers did not get involved in this crash canada's grady lehmann and mark bishop of switzerland finished in first and second and actually riddick of russia who was involved in the crash was able to get out finish the race get a bronze medal but you know whatever way this ends up it's a great finish for you know lehmann. he has a his own story of missing out on a medal in the last olympics in sochi this is going to be overshadowed by this crash which was especially violent and this sort of shows how dangerous ski cross can be we do have some quotes from some fans who are watching us but we can take a look at some in the air and he just kind of landed sideways it reince the i'm actually win because there was in the way but it looks pretty good you know i think generally when you're like competing against other players there's always a chance for injury but. the course through specially at those high speeds you know

you just never know they're separated by milliseconds you know also. those yeah those jumps and so it can be dangerous but it's very very very sport. part of every sport but certainly a scary moment another story that unfortunately has been coming out of the olympics doping and this one involving a russian bronze medalists tell us more about this year alexander crucial netsky who was part of the mixed doubles curling team from the olympic athletes from russia they took bronze and it turns out he tested positive for mel donia which is a blood circulation drug which has been used as a performance enhancer now he does maintain his innocence and we have what he told russian t.v. after getting this positive result ok. we are very interested in the investigation on name korea and further sports life is at stake will do everything to find those responsible for this we are confident that we are clean. what's going on here i

mean you have him saying he's innocent on the other had he tested positive twice for this banned substance exactly i think this should be a case of we don't know whether to believe his word here has a test tested positive his b. tests tested positive russia as we know has a terrible doping record overall in the last several years and with regard to mel dony i'm in particular i mean since this particular substance was banned in two thousand and sixteen the vast majority of athletes who have been caught using donia have been russian such as. of tennis the boxer alexander prevent him there have been many others this seems to be something that a lot of russian athletes experiment with let's just say just very briefly mad aside from the head headlines putting on a good show for the fans yeah yeah absolutely a good show it's been you know attendance not always been very cold but they've had a great light show going on around with the main venues and you know what you might

see in these pictures looks like a typical light show which is actually a bunch of drones it's a swarm of drones who have been programmed to form into various a limb pick event logos and the rings and i think it's all very cool it does nice for the fans or to enjoy all right matt hartman from the sports thank you very much . and we'll be back at back rather with more news coming right up. my big brother it's very moving for me to hold you in my arms. my name is. right i'm a popular in chief of the holy tribe and an ambassador of the forest i travel the world to share a message that concerns us all. my foresters breath. you can.

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a new push to end gun violence seventeen people were killed in the massacre. now the surviving students are leading the movement for change pressuring state lawmakers to pass tighter gun control laws but on tuesday they suffered a setback as politicians rejected a motion to consider a ban on sales of assault style rifles. students from marjorie stoneman douglas high school make the long journey to florida state capitol to pressure lawmakers to ban assault style weapons they want the massacre at their school to be the last. they were that they were going to. be happy. we have to show them how. hard they have. their calls fell on deaf ears students was shocked when the state house voted down the motion but there are signs that washington is listening

although he campaigned on a pro-gun ticket president donald trump announced his support for tighter regulations on gun to accessorise. just a few moments ago. a memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn illegal weapons in the machine guns i expect that these critical regulations will be finalized. very soon. on wednesday the president is set to host a listening session at the white house with victims of mass shooting violence but many in florida are tired of talk they want action. but the students have vowed to continue protesting for gun reform their next stop is in washington d.c. in march. a funeral service was held on tuesday for fifteen year old peter way he died while bringing

others to safety during the shooting youth across the nation are not giving up in the fight for their lives. to france now where the government of president manuel mccall has introduced a controversial new migration law the bill was presented by the interior minister. it proposes to toughen the country's asylum regulations the government insists that the law will be both firm and fair on immigration and is in line with european standards but human rights groups say it will a road to migrants rights. and let's take a look at some of the issues that this law is trying to tackle now france has seen asylum figure surge even as the number of asylum seekers across the european union has actually been decreasing in two thousand and seventeen alone paris received a record one hundred thousand asylum requests that is seventeen percent more than the previous year while migrants have also been converging in large numbers on

hotspots of paris and along france's northern and southern coasts thousands are living in difficult conditions aid workers say those conditions are only getting worse now on top of that asylum procedures they are very slow growing currently asylum seekers wait on average eleven months to receive a decision on their application so let's take a look at the new laws main goals that is to speed up the asylum process from eleven to six months including the appeal time for asylum seekers who are turned down on their applications the law also includes a stricter detention rules not the maximum detention time for a legal migrants pending deportation will double from forty five to ninety days and it also imposes high fines on people who illegally cross borders within europe and so on well let's get more on that story with our correspondent elizabeth cohen and by for us in paris with a look at this immigration law high analysts of it good to see you give us more

detail on like this law is supposed to do. well the law is supposed to comply with the spirit and the letter of the european regulations and a new legislative attitude to migrants and it is our political migrants by groups who are in fear of the lives or refugees and they are welcome in france and economic migrants are not so welcome especially if they try to pass themselves off . as political migrants and because the more you let this happen without having some check on the war it affect you or giving money to people traffickers worldwide. amnesty antron international rather and says that this new law will actually dehumanize migrants and we've also seen protests there in france today and why is that. you will always have people who will protest this and who say that we should take every single margaret who comes to france but the result of

taking every single migrant who comes or not having it not to mention the fact that you know we have palaces that first of all. that can be several hundreds of millions of people trying to come to europe and there's no place for them in europe on one side where is political like ruins are again you know part of the geneva. accords they are definitely do you. buy them in europe but what it does is it makes it it makes the populations lose confidence trust in their governments and that's when they start voting for populist of actors movements so you can't go on and say we should take everybody and everything is as humane there's a rule that all says we take political migrants and we take some of the economic migrants but those the worst less inhumane is that we're going to speed up the

checking process it and we will take up the time to checking those migrants who got a reason to come to us and the others will be i did not take in all driven but two to the border so that's the government's perspective that you've been laying out for us yet president a man on a car has actually been facing resistance from within his own party and how big of a challenge is immigration for him. president macro or when he was campaigning for president had several tens of thousands of volunteers of his party doing grassroots work in which they saw over one hundred million people and they asked questions and all those questionnaires were brought home and every single member of the medical movement and now cabinet has read literally thousands of those questionnaires and what they said is that immigration is a preoccupation and what's of recuperation is not to help people who genuinely help but a kind of disregard from the governments to what happens on the ground to people that

have had polls recently that sixty five percent of the french think this to much immigration the characteristic of mr metals party is that it has members from the right and from the left his prime ministers from the right his own secretary is from the left and you will have dissensions within the party because that's the nature of it at the same time the majority of the french deal it's good to help people it's not good to be overrun angles of reporting from paris thank you very much thank you the russians take to the polls next month in an election that's all but try to cement president putin's grip on power but a new campaign video in support of put ness stirred up controversy with critics calling it racist and homophobic or social media editor list show has been tracking the story for us he joins us now by live what's the fuss all about. also any of the video shows the best middle aged or russian man he is with his wife on the eve of

the election and the wife tells the man ok we have to wake up early tomorrow morning so that we can go and vote and the man is like a why should we have to go and vote the ward voting will happen whether we go or we don't and then they go to sleep and then the man has this nightmare so this is what's happening in his agree with me he has soldiers knocking on his door they tell him that he has been drafted into the army and then he says ok but i'm fifty two and they tell him that the age of conscription has been raised to sixty then he sees this as a gay man in his kitchen his wife tells him that there's a new law that wants them to adopt a single gay man into their family and this really terrifies them to me he wakes up and he insists to his wife that they have to go and vote so the video moral is scaring russians into a voting maybe even voting for

a president of light in europe hootin and this comes at a time where the opposition leader aleksei novelli is actually calling for a boycott of the elections as i can imagine this has been pretty controversial one of the reactions been like. you know very controversial that we're actually seeing many people who are commenting on this or we're sharing that on a social media saying that they think it's funny and that they see it as a satire as a jab on the opponents of law to me or putin by then there are other critics as well for example we have the liberal journalist who is also running for president subject and a she posted her criticism on an instagram post this is why she says to me she says it is ok to make fun of people even make fun of gays but she says presenting l.g.b. people as a threat in a homophobic country is no joke no the thing is that we don't know where this video came from and that is why there is no person really to direct this criticism at is

there any indication as to who is behind this video. well the video first went viral when it was posted on the facebook page a pro kremlin political analyst he is one of the first people really showed shared it on a social media alexander. and as you feed there sumit got more than three point six million views in just a few days thousands of people sharing it and commenting on it there are some suspicions that maybe this video came from the putin campaign but there is no proof of that what we know is that putin wants there to be a high water turn now it's because although he knows that he is going to win at least polls show that the higher voter turnouts might mean that he will win by a higher margin and that will also give his victory more weight our social media editor list show thank you for sharing that story with us. time to go back to ben

now and venezuela has a new virtual currency is there any interest in it then song the bids dribbling in but there's no gosh so it's not over subscribed or anything like that venezuela is the first nation in the world to launch a state backed digital currency the petro it's designed to hold the country out of its economic crisis the president is already trumpeting its success not everyone's convinced. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has been promoting the country's new digital currency even going as far as pitting it against an american superhero . today marks the birth of a crypto currency that can take on superman the petro not even superman could threaten it. maduro says that then as well raise seven hundred thirty five million dollars on petrels first day of pre-sale but his critics say maduro didn't present any evidence many are skeptical going as far as comparing the petrol to the

country's beleaguered currency. it all depends on the trust in the issuer we can see the example set by the ball of our in theory it's backed by the whole venezuelan economy but no one has faith in the ball of art because nobody believes what the government says. then as well is in desperate need of a solution hyperinflation and soaring debt levels of cold poverty levels to skyrocket the government's latest move could potentially help it circumvent u.s. and e.u. sanctions and raise much needed foreign exchange for the country for u.s. citizens and companies buying the petrol would mean violating sanctions so the currency may already face an uphill battle in other countries now everyone used to worry about the globe's oil reserves running out now the industry fears demand will start drying up b.p. reckons it will begin plateau ng in the late twenty's thirty's as for nubile stake

of. automotive companies around the world are betting on the mass adoption of electric vehicles in the next decades and they're not the only ones oil and gas giant b.p. is anticipating the same it predicts a one hundred fold growth in electric vehicles by twenty forty and a corresponding hit to the world's oil and gas sector b.p. forecasts continuing growth in global demand for oil and other liquid fuel in the next years but that demand is set to stop increasing after it hits one hundred ten million barrels a day in the late twenty thirty s. it's the first time b.p. has forecast a peak in the world's appetite for oil. it's not just about electric cars increased fuel efficiency in vehicles powered by internal combustion engines is said to offset consumption to but beyond the automotive sector other factors are set to cause demand to sag like try to regulations restricting the use of plastic

as well as an expected increase in the share of renewables in the global energy mix to fourteen percent by twenty forty. one about harnessing the power of a seat so a few tidal power stations have been able to profit the main problem being that the generators affixed to the sea floor and that makes them expensive to install and maintain but now a british and german team has taken a new approach working backward from the idea of a ship's propellers. it's freezing outside but time to hit the water for david targets scott and his colleagues in scotland the work days just beginning the title stream generators are new but will they produce enough energy scott has been working on the project for two years. these turbines generate electric power what's special is that they are not fixed in place with this platform we can swing

a turbine up out of the water we can inspect it we can see if the blades are damaged the turbine needs cleaning we can run tests on it and it's completely necessary we can change our whole rotor floating tidal stream generator is one of a kind there are only a few places on the planet with tidal currents like those in call on scotland's west coast the moving water hit speeds here of up to forty kilometers per hour relentlessly driving on the water propellers this is tom it's caught on a german colleague a year ago still deep in the planning of the tidal generator the idea it floats on the surface but is anchored to the seabed with steel cables. electric power is transmitted through a cable and that will supply three hundred households with energy the perfect solution for the bay according to the planners they have divided the work among themselves the british team is building the steel platform kneels long as company shuttle is developing the generators under orders it's specializes in ship engines

like these pumps jets. nearly one thousand three hundred people work for the german company. has been using his knowledge of propellers to build the waters his team specializes in tidal energy which is relatively a new business segment for the company right now shuttle is testing whether an apology narrator can withstand nonstop stresses of underwater operation in scotland he says it's the most exciting project he has worked on for a long time. but almost all of us are engineers so it's important for us to develop technical things that is very satisfying and also to be able to create a market maybe much like was done with wind energy twenty five years ago on the. back and scotland the platform is already in operation and his colleagues are showing it to chinese investors they are interested in buying a title power station and they are impressed the platform is already producing electricity cheaper than a diesel power station its makers say but it won't be staying here very long

because an island community in the philippines has purchased it. out through one of me and was most popular festivals and it's called the full moon festival at lake inlay and people come from far and wide to watch the famous leg work hours race their canoes across the lake surface to get you caught up with the rowing team from one village as they prepare to compete at the festival. on mesmerizing display. wooden boats adorned with flowers and reeves glide past the floating houses on me and mars in lady lake. but it's the rowers unique style that's the real surprise these are the into the lake people. the children here learn one legged rowing from a young age. life in this community takes place on the water.

the rowing team of the village has a lot are about to start a training session with coach into. the leg method is amazingly effective. the coach is actually a farmer like most people here. he says the most important thing to learn is teamwork. the men are training for the annual race during the full moon festival. but this distinct rowing style is not just for racing. into fisherman deftly navigate the lake while standing upright on their narrow boats. their hands are free to cast their nets. the boat race is the highlight of the annual full moon festival and they calle our village team where this year's winners.

will me and moaning says they won half a million shot the equivalent of three hundred euros. that's a lot of money for the into people of even a lake. back to the berlin international film festival on our colleagues of their charlotte chelsea and have scott roxboro is standing by for us hi guys so earlier a film about incest and murder and then the festival moved on to win a reign in the film tell us more about that yeah that's how we spent all morning watching that film about incest and met with i think only just recovered but we have another film about about brutal mad i'm afraid that the iranian film pig is about a director who's blacklisted in iran and a killer is gradually picking off his friends and actually this is a comedy this film that he did expect from the pluck pluck it exactly as you might

predict but he's sort of also some self why he hasn't been a target say what it's meant to be quite a surreal film and it's highly anticipated here the better not it because the director of the film has made multiple appearances him and he's an interesting director he comes from the sort of magic realist school every me and cinema he uses really cinematic imagery and often tell sort of fantasy sort of fairy tale like stories and it's a deliberate approach because in order to work within the censorship system within iran he uses these techniques to tell sort of allegorical stories in order to tell about the real political problems within his country and yeah we can't give too much away yes about what exactly we think about this film and whether or not he employs those they stick needs here because the world premier hasn't happened yet that is happening tonight what we can show you though is a trader of the film clip take a listen. good. pig is the story of hostile narcissistic film director furious that he's been blacklisted from iran's movie industry.

possum's also furious that there's a serial killer decapitation iran's top filmmakers only because he isn't one of them. and. ranjit. the laughs film aficionados won't forget that some of iran's top directors really are banned from the country cinemas but pick director money huggy insists that his black comedy a contender for this year's golden bear is only parody you. have black comedy indeed guys that arabian films don't really have a tradition at this film festival yeah that's right they've had

a lot of success over the last ten years yeah you know i mean just what two thousand and eleven film a separation won big here one the golden bear went on then later to win the oscar for best foreign language film which is a really amazing drama this is separation it uses the the story of the break up of a couple to talk about the deep ills in a rainy and society and another iranian film that did really well here just four years after a separation was taxi by nonie he was a black that's it still is a black listed director in iran not legally allowed to work there this film taxi shot entirely in secret in a taxi cab where he's actually also the driver and used it as a way of reflecting the sort of the can prior abstract referring in society nominal phenomenal film and it's really berlin has really become in the last ten twenty years the premier platform for sort of iranians and of particularly for directors who aren't allowed to show their movies at home. back to the films that you guys

saw today are any of them in the running to win the competition. not say sure about that we can't yet give our predictions on whether the iranian film paid my when will be sure to keep the price in that you know that later on after the crimea as for the other film that we've seen today my brother's name is robot and he is in. the reality jam and film we were talking about. i never you never know you never know with a. jury but it's a very rough and. i don't think it really deserves the golden bear if i have to pick my for favorite film so far was the very first film showed here dogs from wes anderson gorgeous movie fun lifting incredibly well made and beautiful. and this for me that's still the top pick for the ultimate yeah i have.

cited here that wes anderson was a painting this round and that's why he's one of my favorites i think it's a lot of people's favorites they his style and they really are fans of his what white meat disappointed by this film which i do they want to just throw another name in the ring not really any of my in an italian film and it really deals with the concept of motherhood and gender is while it's a very moving very instant intimate film and i think in this sort of hash tied me to environment where we've seen a lot of strong female characters in the running and i think it's really could be a woman yes yes i probably put my money on daughter refined as well but i look all pretty just watch it anyway yeah all right good to talk to you both our film critics down at the berlin international film festival charlotte's wholesome pill and scott roxboro thank you. and a reminder now of the top story that we're following for you right here and get over here news international concern is growing about the number of civilian deaths in serious eastern gotama airstrikes by pro-government forces on the besieged rebel

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