i am. i am. sure this is really news live from berlin no place to hide the un security council debates the slaughter of civilians in a sprawling suburbs of damascus the situation for families besieged in eastern guta is only getting worse with no respect for brutal government airstrikes and shelling reaching new levels of intensity also coming up give the teachers guns u.s. president donald trump suggest teachers carry concealed weapons following last week's florida massacre at an emotional listening session in the white house

victims of gun violence demanded stricter gun control. and you will get the highlights from the winter olympics and south korea including the wailing finish in the women's ice hockey final as team usa beats top favorites canada to bring gold for the first time in two decades. we were here at the berlin international film festival went there one premiere at museum with guy and as he added now stay tuned we'll bring you the latest. on the boy . thanks for your company everyone. the u.n. security council is debating a possible cease fire in the suburb of eastern ghouta on the outskirts of the syrian capital damascus well it follows a. day of international condemnation by the un chief the un tonio with dennis who

called it hell on earth and by the red cross which has called for access to civilians under bombardment for residents of eastern there is nowhere to hide from unrelenting airstrikes carried out by the forces of president bashar al assad is military says it's targeting only what it calls terrorists but in the kind of monitors say the shelling has killed more than four hundred civilians since sunday many of them children. hell on earth and there's no escape this hospital now a graveyard. government work planes have been pounding eastern cuba for the fifth consecutive day children are under siege in one of the most brutal bombardments this war has ever seen the mobile. we were unable to evacuate our patients or treat them. we had to do one of the operations under the rubble.

because we couldn't evacuate we had to do it under the rubble. the outrage is palpable speaking to germany's parliament chancellor angela merkel called the assad regime conduct a massacre. the horrifying events that we're seeing in syria the fight of one regime not against terrorists but against its own population killing children destroying hospitals all of these constitute a massacre which needs to be condemned and we say a clear no to this. and that. but an opposition politician said that without action words are hollow. it's not enough just to say that we are condemning it she said that germany going to try a bigger role there no idea what she's talking about i want to see you consequences

as the airstrikes continue relentlessly russia a key ally of the assad regime blames the rebels holding duty for the region's humanitarian crisis. are we can talk to mark milley us now from the aid organization care in amman jordan good evening martin i understand that partners of your organization care were active in the region until roughly two days ago is that correct. there are here are you still in touch with people in eastern guta what are they telling you. yeah therea still attach on daily basis we hear from our partners and you know the space that kelly has been desperate desperate cries for i have has been really really better stating that i last five days and even survey at lunchtime we already had dozens of casualties reported throughout taylor he had an aerial bombardment on

a really really what is densely populated neighborhoods did they describe what buildings were being targeted yeah i mean we've heard really it's. it's sadly very similar to what we had seen and our level last year you know that really targeting off medical facilities that bakeries markets. water infrastructure so that it the roads and nobody can go out people are sheltering in that basements that they're frayed for their lives i heard this morning the door judge was year old girl was saying i don't want to die i still have dreams it's really really destroyed the people that you spoke to how are they protecting their families what are they doing to stay safe. i know the woman did it she told me i mean this is normal this is normal bunkers i mean it's

there for him down in the basement if they can or what he's going out by one of the women she told me in the morning saying that you know my hands on hope now that they can actually shelter my children and when chile is just to sit there and hope and the hope is getting didn't hurt for survival so there's nothing this is there's nowhere it has nowhere to go it's one hundred square kilometers densely populated there's no way in or out so it is a racially nothing nothing you can do to your project your family what needs to happen to ensure humanitarian access which is as you describe mostly needed at this moment. i mean we support obviously the call for an immediate cease fire and we hope that the security cameras are or will remember something. it's all right. behind closed doors that there is an immediate cease fire

and injured people can be evacuated that humanitarian aid can be delivered are we talking really very things like quarters for medication that we haven't been able to bring in for quite a significant amount of time all right thank you so very much martin millions from the aid organization care in amman jordan thank you thank you. all right now we shift our focus now to the u.s. where there in an emotional listening session in the white house with victims of gun violence president donald trump suggested teachers carry concealed weapons all the focus of the meeting was on students and parents speaking out on gun policy reform with feeling still fresh and raw after the florida school massacre trump vowed to go hard on tightening background checks. it was cold a listening session but president trump had plenty to say. meeting at the white

house with survivors of gun violence and victims families trump suggested one solution to school shootings could be more guns and this would only be obviously for people that are very adept at handling a gun. and it would be it's called concealed carry where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them they go for special training and they would. be there and you would no longer have a gun free zone gun free zone to a maniac. because they're all cowards a gun free zone is let's go in and let's attack is anybody like the father of a boy killed in the two thousand and twelve sandy hook school shooting didn't think much of the idea. school teachers have more than enough responsibilities right now then to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life. thank you. nobody wants to see a shoot out in

a school and to arrange sociopath on his way to commit an act of of murder in a school with the outcome knowing the outcome is going to be suicide is not going to care if there's somebody there with a gun that's their plan anyway trump also vowed to improve background checks and said he was open to raising the minimum age for buying high powered weapons but it was a meeting heavy with role emotion just doesn't make sense fix it should have been one school shooting and we should have fixed it i turned eighteen the day after or up to the news that my best friend was gone. and i don't understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. chance listening session is unlikely to quieten the growing calls from school students for stricter gun laws. the student led movement to

end gun violence continues to gain momentum and on wednesday demonstrations and walkouts were staged across the u.s. despite warnings from some school districts that students would be punished for taking part we have this report from washington. we are going to go for the fake upset. we are taking. they are the mass shooting generation the seventeen year olds were born into a world where school shootings have become normal today they skipped class to protest at the white house for more gun controls their message to politicians this clear. we're going over to the funny at a midterm election we're going to go to the point on elections and none of them are going to steer the ship was. dr kay kay. other organizations like mom steam and action have joined the coal for

stricter gun laws in a country where ninety one people die from firearms every day the fear of violence is always there i feel anxious dropping my child off the next day i know that even with all of the drills that we do we do lockdown drills in our schools twice a year we ask our children to be locked inside of a cabinet or a closet and to be silent and basically rehearse their own slaughter in their schools but as we saw in parkland all of the preparation in the world cannot stand up to an error fifteen. moms demand action one to background check for each and every gun purchase in the united states they say it's the only way to keep weapons out of the hands of mentally disturbed. enter patrick is a spokesperson for the coalition to stop gun violence he sees better background checks as the absolute bare minimum patrick says president trump should push forward with a ban on bomb stocks devices that allow weapons to fire faster he's feeling the

pressure a little bit on this issue if he's serious about it he will support a ban on bomb stocks in congress and sign it when it gets voted on after congress he has not called for that yet that's the really the only thing that can make real change in bending the right up there a freight you know just recently in our county a student came to school with a loaded gun and it was just one day after the pardon shooting and so that really scared me and that was that was when i first that was one of the first times where i really felt unsafe going to school i was on my i was on my bus on my way there and i was like well who's to say that my school is not going to be next are you afraid of a school. sorting in your own school dad i'm a completely afraid of our security at school think you need to be high in completely after these type of event keep reoccurring everywhere you need to make a change make a change in the gun laws make a change in security make stricter gun laws stricter security make a school a safe place not a place he should having died about possibly having school get shot up every day

and the only way to make a difference is if the kids in the school get out and make a difference and stand up where we are in our nation's capital that that's what's going to make a difference not just sitting in school and letting these things happen every year because it's not it's not going to change. today day for been sitting for hours in front of the white house to protest sent to remember the victims of gun violence victims that could have easily been their own classmates. president trump has also come under fire from amnesty international which says his policies market a new era of human rights regression in the united states and around the world and its annual report the rescue criticize trump's human rights record are there activist groups have also expressed concern about what they see as a rise in religious and racial intolerance on the trunk presidency. for the first time and this internationals and all report is being released in the

us capital washington d.c. for the human rights watch jack it's supposed to send a clear message and the secretary general explains why the united states is a country which has huge influence across the world but we have a president who has introduced the global gag rule play for you the settlement numbers and who has introduced a muslim so we want to hold a kid to highlight a serious human rights violations which are being caused by this country and the message is clear that you know if you sacrifice human it comes at a huge human cost and it will never make america great again. muslim organizations are also concerned about current trends the council of american islamic relations has been challenging religious stereotypes since one thousand nine hundred ninety five founder ibrahim hooper says their job has become harder under president trump. obviously this president has

issues in terms of his personal views on on white supremacy on racism on being against immigrants or people of color somehow he believes he benefits from increasing divisions within within society and as he creates the divisions he decreases respect for the constitution for democracy itself and that's something that's very troubling the u.s. congress muslims who work on capitol hill are allowed to pray here every friday a right granted to them in one thousand nine hundred seventy the amount leading today's prayers says it underscores america's openness towards different religions . the first amendment you have the right to pray and this is the people's house that's what we call the captains the people's house and if you work here you work or you have the right to pray here you had me up to my leak has warships in congress for ten years he has

a different view on how to ease the current tensions in american society. what we need now to right this tension that we're seeing and being exacerbated by the trump administration is for us to look at the fundamentals of what is happening to the middle class poor and working class white people not not just latinos not just blacks and we and i'm one of them i left my white brother behind and so his responses to say well if you didn't care about me i don't care about you that has to be fixed the midterm elections in november will take the pulse of american society and will be a crucial test for the trump presidency american voters will have their say and they may decide to absent the balance of power in congress. are and i'm joined now by marcus vick o. secretary-general for amnesty international in germany thank you for coming in and

spending time with us mr because this is an annual global progress report on human rights around the world who are the worst offenders and which countries are you most worried about. we have very gravely concerned about one trend and that is that certain governments and political actors openly neglect international law neglect human rights stand and they do that actually with the aim to challenge the international auto we have established since world war two they do this to d.c. stabilize international institutions and challenge that consensus of the universe and that day they could ration of human rights issue make that more concrete to provide some examples of that that illustrate this point yes we see we see it as well regarding china and russia in the security council way to actually prevent that perpetrators and. human rights violations are being prosecuted

so you've either to the fact that if there's a motion in the security council to do with human rights that they often use their veto to block any so we've seen that we've seen we've seen seen that with yemen and we see the results which resulted in grave schuman italian catastrophes and many injuries and human rights violations and do you think that as a consequence a lot of leaders are acting with impunity that is do is so that's why governments all over the word. now needed to step up for this international law to step up for human rights step up for all of those conventions we have secured over the past seventy years. and defend this framework and defend the idea of human rights do you feel that is under threat that that that convention that so many of your colleagues have worked for over the decades it's for sure that these

governments and political activists who who are challenging us they want to turn back the clock so i think we all have to live up to that challenge governments on the mountain national for in that multinational photo but also each government showing and demonstrating their commitment to human rights within their foreign policy but also within that internal policies who would still like to see step up at the moment which country which leader do you feel really needs to step up now and uphold human rights i think everybody is being asked to do that every government but of course now speaking sitting in germany i do think that the european union and the german german government can do much much more but first of all they also have to live up to dare all been engaged and the e.u. currently is is not doing that is not fulfilling their obligations bede internally

it dealing with member states who are challenging human rights were using of hate like hungry all who have challenging the rule of law like poland it's important that they send a strong signal here but also of course regarding the european foreign policies signing deals with other states and neglecting human rights in these and you're also i suggest probably are referring to the refugee situation currently in europe is that also what is that cost because we see that the u.p.a. in community is. dealing with countries with governments which was sponsible for grave human rights violations like egypt and libya and in not putting first the safety of refugees of human beings and but that is an important visit before the european union can be a champion for human rights globally so i think this has an urgent need because we

need more champions for human rights on the global level all right mr marcus because secretary-general for amnesty international injury thank you for spending time with us. at the. german prosecutors have raided the homes of two former audi board members plus a third person involved the folks fog a subsidiary the rates are part of the ongoing diesel get investigation they are suspected of complicity in bringing cars with that many collated diesel engines onto the market audi stands accused of selling over two hundred thousand cars a software designed to cheat exhaust testing earlier he spoke to aren't getting worse from banking advisor africa or asking him if diesel is on its way out. well a i continue to be firmly a believer that diesel will disappear from the european market it's only a european technology we are used to fifty percent penetration of these legends in

europe it's dropped to just about thirty percent so it's not just a small death of these it's actually a pretty quick death of the diesel engine the german court decision it was postponed today to the twenty seventh of february i can well see driving bans in cities becoming a legal action to protect the air quality in cities and that will only accelerate the transition away from diesel power trains to electrified power trains especially hybrids. so germany's administrative court will rule on that diesel driving ban next tuesday in one case that's being examined environmental activists took the southern city of stuttgart to court over its failure to respect legal limits for toxic air pollution linked to thousands of premature deaths every year here is our environmental correspondent christopher spring gate with more. it's the busiest

time of day at this family run bakery and. dozens of customers throughout the city are waiting for their morning deliveries. like many small businesses in germany it's invested in diesel powered delivery vehicles which are cheaper to run due to years of tax breaks for diesel a ban on day use would hit the company hard as of india. if a ban on diesel powered vehicles covers the whole city then we have a problem in principle that we have to shut down. we can't deliver our products by public transport so we have nowhere to go so. this. design of blames the sheer volume of traffic in german cities and has some of the country's worst it's in a city absorbs over four hundred thousand commuters every day this busy stretch of road in central called the nec a troll crossing and it's become something of a household name in germany that's because with an average of almost seventy

thousand vehicles passing through in both directions every single day it's now one of the country's absolute hotspots for air pollution. last year the monitoring station at the nec atoll crossing measured an average of seventy three micrograms with nitrogen dioxide per cubic meter that's almost double the legal limit which is why activists are calling for tough measures. a lot of people here suffer from respiratory diseases old people in particular and. people move out of this area as soon as they can afford to and that's why we urgently need to diesel ban here it would have an immediate effect. is keen to avoid diesel bans so it's introduced traffic reduction schemes and public awareness campaigns encouraging people to cycle to work or use public transport policy makers are also progressing. reducing the cost of public transport.

and the cities also hosting this pioneering project using a wall of morse to suck. out of the atmosphere the walls about one hundred meters long three meters high whether it works though isn't fully clear yet. germany's powerful car makers are also firmly against driving bans but in the wake of the admissions cheating scandal the tipler at the moment. read more business news later in the show but they'll actually been here for any the verbal and international film festival is it is final days ahead of the bears being awarded this weekend and my colleagues melanie ball and my schrader are going to the movies for us good evening ladies what's been going on down at the red carpet today. right behind says actually the premiere of the museum by ireland's arteries but that's just happening right now it's

a movie that is based on true events it's about two young man who break into the national museum they buy they steal so many of priceless artifacts and to what they're not expecting those that the whole nation tends against them they become real enemies who have been seen as unpatriotic and they have played by a really really bad conscience which is just one of many surprises and one other surprise we had today was that guy i'll go see about now the star of the film actually showed up at the press conference he was not expected and we learned a lot from the director about his process in making the film including that the families of the people who participated in the true story this is based on a true story i did not want anything to do with the film which he says freedom up to tell the story he actually wanted to tell and ladies you're going to be back a little later on in the show what you got for us. well we've also seen the movie m. by marcus inhofe which is called al gore roger premiering today and this one is

a documentary that i read he tells in a very crippling way the very true story of what refugees face when they arrive here at european shows and we'll also have a retrospective on the weimar republic which produced germany's golden age of cinema so stay tuned for that writes melanie maya thank you. are right and don't forget you can always get it everything is on the go just download our app for google play or from the apple store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as pressure tissues for a great used your all so we use if you'll be up to send us your photos video. we're going to be right back.

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innovations magazine for any. of us from the every week and always looking to the future w dot com science and research. great to see you again you're watching that we news only allow rock n roll and these are mean headlines right now the u.n. security council is debating a possible temporary ceasefire in syria's eastern ghouta international concern is growing over the number of civilian deaths caused by government shelling of the area. u.s. president donald trump has suggested arming teachers as a way to stop more school shootings the outline the proposal at a meeting with survivors of gun violence. seventy five years ago today germany's nazi regime executed hans and sophie show the siblings were members of the so-called white rose as one of the country's very few resistance groups the

shoals and four other members of the group paid with their lives for standing up against a brutal regime to w. simon young went to munich to see whether their legacy lives are. big macs a million university today looks like a fairly typical campus with students hurrying to libraries and lectures but look a little closer and you see the big issues one of those places where germany's twentieth century history resonates and gives us a glimpse of a different path it might have taken. for a few months in one thousand nine hundred two in one nine hundred forty three students of this university were the core of the white rose one of the very few resistance groups inside nazi germany which managed to organize and actually do something against the regime its best known members are hands shaw and his sisters of both students in their early twenty's they were intellectuals interested in philosophy and religion but as they learned more about the nazis crimes they

decided it was time to act they type defiant appeals to their fellow germans printed them on a secret press and distributed them around the country in these leaflets the shoals and the other white rose activists called on germans to recognize their moral g.t. and overthrow the system by passive resistance and then by sabotage spreading ideas like those at the height of the second world war was a very dangerous and courageous thing to do. on the eighteenth of february nine hundred forty three hansen's of feet came here to the main university building armed with copies of their latest flyer. what happened next was one of the tensest scenes in the movie zulfi show all the final days which made the white rose better known internationally. filmed partly of the original locations it showed how determined the shoals were to wake others up to the evil of the nazis. they left piles of leaflets in the hallways knowing they would be found when students came

out of their lectures. in germany almost every young person has heard this story. today are probably different circumstances but if something motors would happen again people would stand up against such a reason regime. what i've done if i were in that situation i don't know actually i think it's. very good what they did. and they should be a role model but. if i'm honest. i don't think i would have done that because i would be scared to get in trouble. hansen's of fi schol did get into trouble they were arrested by hitler's secret police the gestapo and along with another student

who helped write the pamphlets given a show trial before the infamous people's court on the twenty second of february they were executed. more than six hundred streets and squares all over germany and named for the shoals and other members of the white roads reminders that only a few people were willing to risk their lives for freedom. seventy five years on the sacrifice of these young people still seems extraordinary and has the power to inspire as the white rose wrote if we don't have the courage to demand what is right we will deserve to be scattered like dust on the wind. simon reporting there on acts a corruption scandal rocks a grease fire he tells all about a drop maker novartis which is embroiled in a corruption scandal in greece parliament has launched a probe into claims that nearly a dozen senior politicians received bribes from or helped promote the swiss

pharmaceutical giant during their term in office. has rocked all of greece and the government wants to get to the bottom of it. well you then as you go live there we want to help cover up to conceal o'barry one of the biggest scandals in modern history because the greek people have the right under demand to have everything come to light and to learn the truth. even at the height of the country's economic crisis novartis was over charging for drugs according to the greek government it says that left thousands without access to affordable medicine between two thousand and six and twenty fifteen the swiss drug maker allegedly bribed thousands of doctors and civil servants including the former finance minister he is accused of signing documents that unable to tax bill from the vox is to be merged with public sector debt. ladies and gentlemen these

statements are entirely facts and never signed anything of the sort mine or did i have the authority to do so and i don't think anyone else signed either. if for fish for weeks now i have asked to be shown the relevant documents with my signatures they simply don't exist. greece's parliament is now investigating about a dozen senior politicians novartis says it's cooperating with the greek authorities while conducting an internal audit the swiss drugmaker has already paid multimillion dollar fines in the u.s. china and south korea to settle corruption cases. a strike by air france on board personnel has led to council ations and delays at major airports in europe says it would council every second going fly from paris and every fourth medium whole flight pilots and air crews demand a six percent raise air france is offering just one percent the workers union has

it's the biggest walkout in twenty five hears. the day so if the spose of all plastic items are numbered in taiwan it's the latest flying into island strive to cut waste and limit pollution disposable plastic bags straws and cups would be totally prohibited by the year twenty thirty the new restrictions for the catering business start next year taiwan started recycling plastics over a decade ago but says the new measures will improve harm from plastic garbage significantly. and kenya's economy has posted solid growth in recent years thanks in part to an investment drive and a rebound in tourism still with unemployment at around ten percent creating jobs remains a priority one company that's doing just that is cuz it started off as jewel making handmade jury for decades it employs hundreds of people.

the word consumer reince where he means small and beautiful it's also the name of the company selling these hard made ceramic pearls in kenya. used to. market. process it. was a lot of work goes into the clay before it can be transformed into accessories. because business is doing well a lot of jobs have been creation it especially for women elizabeth martin has been here from the beginning forty two years ago. there were two of us when we started there are three hundred fifty and. we keep pushing on and this job has helped me provide for the children's upkeep to

pay school fees. and pay rent as well. because a re doesn't just want to produce accessories it's a social enterprise aiming to fight poverty it pays higher than average salaries. many women working here are single mothers the company helps cover health services . because the reproduces five million ceramic pearls i'm merely plus other souvenirs some of them make their way to the u.s. and europe but most are sold locally to tourists. i feel this. is so nice so efficient ladies making these thing and somebody's life lift up it does make these beads but we like these fantastic local products. so unique. specific to kenya

and the great prussian ship and law school involved. there's another draw for tourists to the company's production takes place at a farm that used to belong to carr and blixen best known for her book imes of africa and its film version both helped bring kenya closer to hearts all over the world as perhaps do these perils. arise from kenya turning out to nigeria on the road news thank you for the nigerian authorities say the schoolgirls who were unaccounted for following a book of her own attack on monday are still missing this comes after early reports suggested that some of them had been rescued dozens of girls from a state run boarding school and that she in yo baby state are thought to have been abducted by the extremists the disappearance has sparked fears of a repeat of the twenty four thousand mass kidnapping of more than two hundred

schoolgirls from two book now added to the west africa correspondent major increase filed this report from the you'll be state capital the mature. although the attack on the school already happened on monday evening up till now there's still a lot of unanswered questions on wednesday the nigerian military claims that some of the girls were rescued but today the governor of the state went to dep see to the village and he visited the school as well to meet the parents but he told them that he did not hear any news of students being rescued so of course some of the parents became very angry they booted the governor first the time when they left the place with their convoy some even started to smash some of the car windows to them which turned quite to violence but to some people here this anger is understandable because there has been not an appropriate reaction so far even the number of the students who are missing us it's not yet clear up till now we have had numbers from fifty up to one hundred eleven students who are missing different

author e.t.s. give different numbers today the parents gave the governor a list with one hundred one names of missing students so that is the number we got from the parents site so far but the key question is right now still where are those girls are they indeed as the authorities try to explain still on the run after they take they apparently try to seek shelter try to look for safer places and they might still be in the bush somewhere or are they indeed in the hands of the terrorist off book but what we know so far is that the terrorist group has not yet declared any responsibility for the attack here increase reporting there from your restates in nigeria i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world kenya's high court today began hearing arguments challenging laws that target the gay lesbian bisexual and transgender communities i can gay rights group says that criminalizing same sex relations between adults tonight is

a basic human right and is therefore unconstitutional it's not clear when a ruling is expected. congolese refugees in rwanda say soldiers shot at them injuring at least two people then says around two thousand refugees trying to march out of their camp in protest at a cut in food rations the united nations has had to cut its food supply to the refugees due to shortage of funding. pakistan's supreme court has banned former prime minister now assurity from his position as head of the willing party shareef was barred from holding public office over corruption allegations back in july the decision is create a political turmoil ahead of cent of the elections and could ensure reef's career in pakistani politics. now it's time to look to p.r. and chang in the winter olympics joining me read all the big stories is heiko flora's from d.w. source good to see you a so let's talk about that thrill of

a match the ice hockey women's ice hockey major upset definitely definitely this is it was a brilliant game and this is the type of games that you expect to see at the olympics it makes the for your weight definitely worth it so it's definitely one of those games that you want to see we see that first account i claimed the two one lead but less than seven minutes left in the clock and the american nico a more of a tied it to to taking it to overtime eventually to the shootout and the morris team to win just one and gave the lead to the american so get get it it's just her her twin sister was one that put the americans up adding the pressure for canada and of course giving that goal to be us. anything can happen and you know one of the canada had the title for what two decades definitely deaf and so was it was definitely historic when it had been twenty years since last time the u.s. won and it's just a huge rivalry between canada and it has gone on and on as a mentor for twenty years so it's definitely it's historic talking about upsets

there's also been a major upset in men's slalom yeah definitely i mean. history of austria was the one that was the favorite for the race and this time he missed this gate so that's one of those things that it's probably the beauty we can see how you miss that it's probably the beauty are probably what you would consider to be the best part about style and it's one of those things where when you miss that gate that's it you don't have any other chance and of course then. sweden was able to take that gold home and that makes him now with the oldest gold medalist in alpine skiing he's thirty five years old so that's really down to tell me if you think that's a lot of feel that's old but ok there's a lot of competition i exactly and i let's talk a little bit about the women's all pine combine because that also had a surprise winner yeah exactly. there's been a lot of a lot of surprising winners this time the show in switzerland was the winner but much of a surprise maybe not her sister actually won and saatchi the gold four years ago so

you could say they're run from the family for them to kiss good at the sport but leave the kid a shift from the american who was she was the favorite to win the gold she left her in second place so it's an upset definitely and we keep on seeing that in the olympics and that's that's quite what we as mentioned what we want to say keeps it exciting heck a florist you know resource thank you so very much good chatting with you. the berlin international film festival is still in full swing and my colleagues at the ball and the my a shredder are down at the red carpet for us good evening ladies first what have you been seeing today. so the first film that screen today was a new documentary by the legendary swiss director marcus imhoff called el dorado and it is about the process of becoming a refugee in europe and you must really got unprecedented or impressive at the very least access to every single bureaucratic step of the way that it takes to become

a refugee from literally being pulled out of the waters of the mediterranean to sitting in an office waiting to hear if you've been rejected or accepted into europe that's right and what he said in the press conference is that he really wanted to take a critical look at this big aid machinery that ultimately exploits refugees and one of the main reasons why he feels so passionately about the topic is really because of his own and his family's history passed with refugees we have a small piece for you take a look. i know what. obama. swiss director marcos in hopes first experience with refugees was as a child and world war two it was time girls. overcome and reach and this comes from the. obama in moves memory of him to examine the plight of

today's refugees. his film eldorado texas on a rescue mission in the mediterranean. the documentary takes a critical view of european asylum policies and the organizations that try to help my friends as well as the industries that exploit the. call. for god their sense of mission people. it's a quiet film about desh topes and a brutal reminder of the lives that for most europeans go unseen. this is of course such a topical documentary how is it been received. now is a very hot topic that's right it was very warmly received at the press screening that

we went to a lot of big round of applause for him half and even more applause at the press conference afterwards you have talked about how it took him four years to make this film and if you see the film you can tell why it took so long he is traveling all over italy with these refugees going from camp to camp and we actually had one of the refugees who we profiled at the press conference with us that's right and his name is and he's from the ivory coast it was very warmly received that he was here and he told us in the press conference that he had always been hesitant to be part of the movie that he was a bit. trustful of genesis because they always ask him questions he didn't really answer didn't really want to answer but mark was imho really convinced him to be part of this newbie not only because you showed him his bikie pedia profile but also because he really could tell them and ensure him that he would tell his story honestly and truthfully and that he really did and we should say that was just here on the red carpet a few hours ago for the premiere of the film so this is really

a rags to red carpet story for him not only that he is now successfully studying at the sorbonne is employed in paris pretty fascinating work better story there all right now the belly not us of course doesn't just featured this year's movies there's also a major retrospective rate. that's right we have the retrospective here the ballina showing a lot of movies from the twenty's from the thirty's which is considered the era for again in cinema and this was the this this era of the weimar republic was the inspiration for the new netflix series called berlin babylon which was co-created by none other than jury president tom and i believe we have a look at this golden age of german cinema for you. nostalgia for the one nine hundred twenty s. is booming like never before the period drama series babylon berlin revels in the glamour and the vice. cinema

revisited is a wide reaching retrospective that explores one of the most productive and influential times of german filmmaking. this is a very rich time in film a period that was particularly influential and successful internationally it's also a time when german cinema gained a level of importance at home. because of the daughter of. films like the docks of hamburg already come in france and poland. a sailor lands in search of adventure and a bit of fun but he gets more than he bargained for when he meets jenny the star of a local dive bar she drags him into her life and a gang of smugglers just a few years later nazi sensibilities white flawed characters like jenny from the silver screen. the devious path. also typified the artistic spirit of weimar film and uli restored version can now be seen at this year's better not

a retrospective it tows the story of a woman who leaves her husband for a painter she uses her way and plunges into a world of drugs and excess. a lot of that hope piano score as well now touch me not with screaming today one of the four movies by female director out of a total of nineteen in the competition. yeah the competition section of the belly now is not quite as good on the gender balance as the other sections you got about a forty percent female director right there but only four out of the one thousand here. movie is a very close very intimate look at human sexuality that's right and it's not just about the intimacy of heterosexual couples it also looks at transgender people severely disabled people and have them share their experiences there's

a lot of nudity i have to say a lot of explicit sex acts but it also blais the lines between documentary and fiction and sadism and has a lot of interviews to camera with these people including one disabled man who talks a lot about learning to love his body through physical intimacy but i think one of the things that you have to know about this movie is that the very opening shot is a very close up of the male genitalia and that really sets the tone for the entire rest of the movie. no found. a melody occur at the ball really not really not not to my to my straight or other corporate thank you. ari now scientists exploring uncharted waters off the australian coast have pulled up hundreds of rarely seen fish or some may even be new species while they might look otherworldly these sea creatures can help us understand what life is like in one of our planet's deepest habitats you won't find this on your seafood menu

it's a cough and fish dragged up from the bottom of the ocean some might find it ugly not this marine biologist this is a really really cute little coffin fish much much bigger than the one we got the other day came up from about two and a half. thousand meters two hundred kilometers below the ocean surface it's one of hundreds of strange slimy and scary sea creatures holed up from an abyss almost five kilometers deep off a stray east coast they live in freezing temperatures in total darkness under crushing pressure moving slowly about waiting for prey. at these be it guys like you like this but god and you like that and i didn't think it would but i'm out there we've got a little chippy down the middle. and they see that and so if you sit on the bottom

of the ocean like that. sister or the. scientists spent a month at sea undertaking the first of a survey of one of the largest and deepest habitats on the planet they use nets so you know and deep sea cameras to capture a glimpse of one of the most unexplored environments on earth such expeditions are vital to help us understand how life exists in harsh conditions and to discover new species which hopefully will stay deep below and far away from our dinner plates. that's very harsh all right a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you right now the u.n. security council is debating a possible ceasefire in syria's eastern ghouta international concern is growing over the numbers of civilian deaths caused by government shelling of the area and u.s. president donald trump has recommended arming teachers as a way to stop more school shootings he outlined the proposal at

a meeting with survivors of gun violence also said he would push for more comprehensive background checks for those buying weapons. are thank you so much for spending in this part of your day with us i'll see you again tomorrow certainly as of next. thank you.

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this is d w news live from berlin no place to hide the u.n. security council debates the slaughter of civilians in a sprawling suburb of damascus the situation for people besieged in eastern good tech is only getting worse with no respite from the brutal government airstrikes shelling is reaching new levels.