isn't. coffee maybe the world that seems to do so for. good. this is good news coming to you live from berlin the best picture oscar goes to direct. the shape water is cold or fantasy makes a splash at the academy awards will have the whole oscar winners and losers and me to dominate the night. also in the program italy faces political gridlock after an

inconclusive national vote the center right alliance led by former prime minister silvio berlusconi has a slight edge over the m.p.'s stop us from the five star movement but it's not enough seats for a majority in parliament. plus germany social democrats give the grand coalition the green light clearing the way for a new government our political correspondent tells us about the challenges piling up for transfer. also on the program historic changes on foot in china as legislators start opening the path for leader cheating pain to stay in power in definitely. slow i'm terry martian thanks for joining us. hollywood's brightest stars gathered in los angeles for the ninetieth annual academy awards on sunday the night's big

winner was filmmaker guillermo del toro's the shape of water which netted him two oscars for best picture and for best director gary oldman picked up his first oscar for his portrayal of winston churchill in the gritty world war two drama the darkest hour. and frances mcdormand best actress for audience favorite three billboards outside missouri. well for more on the oscars our film buff scott ross perot's with us here hey scott the shape of water was one of the favorite son was nominated thirteen times is this movie in your opinion worthy of receiving the best picture award yeah i think so i mean i thought it was a pretty strong line up this year compared to some previous years where you it's obviously one film could win here you had a number of films that could have won best oscar best picture i think shape of water is

a worthy winner i mean if you look at the oscar winners in years past they tend to either pick the academy tends to pick either a film that shows sort of the magic of cinema the visual splendor of the sort of fantasy of cinema or they go for a sort of socially aware film that shows the social power that cinema can have and this film kind of does both i mean it's a fantasy story it's a story of literally official water a. sort of alien like creature from the deep sea that falls in love with with a woman set in one nine hundred fifty s. american at the height of the cold war. but it's also some ways a story about giving voice to the voiceless because the two main characters the female character played by sally hawkins is mute she literally can't speak in the time one thousand fifties america where women have politically no voice almost no voice and the other character is this alien creature who can't can't communicate because he can't literally clearly can't speak so it's also in some ways. very socially aware film i think that combination of amazing visuals in this fantasy plus the sort of socially aware message i think that is what. pulled off the best

picture of them it was a powerful film i saw it too i really really enjoyed it let's move on to best actress frances mcdormand she took home her second oscar second oscar first one for fargo a long time ago and now decades later she gets a well deserved second oscar one of my favorite actresses she won for three billboards outside. where she plays a woman whose daughter was brutally murdered she thinks the police aren't doing enough to investigate it and so she rents out three billboards outside her home to advertise the fact and to sort of shame the police based on a true story it's a very socially aware film that maybe that was one of the reasons that she won but it's also a piece tribute to this amazing actress who's always gone her own way and she pulled off what i think was the moment of the night of the oscar ceremony when she got her oscar she accepted the award she put it down and then she called on all the female nominees in all categories to stand up and celebrate with her i think we

have fact left that really was the the moment of the night when we take a look. if i may be so honored to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight the out there only if you do it everybody else will come on. to the right. part of the earth the earth the earth the roof the roof. worth. branscombe i think that a great thing she then called on everyone else into the room you know business people who finance movies of all there in the room saying instead of just playing lip service to me too into diversity when you start financing our movies call us up next week after we've had our party tonight call us up and and finance our projects and i think that was sort of the message of the night it was a message of diversity and inclusion which has been obviously at the forefront of

everybody's mind since the movement started but here it was about going further than just lip service and mild political activism to take real steps to change how hollywood works ok that's best actress best actor gary oldman in the darkest hour not a surprise no i mean a great great actor. previously oscar nominated has been sort of the top of his game for decades now playing winston churchill in a big historic epic this is the kind of role that always wins a best actor oscar is well deserved he really inhabits winston churchill in this film he disappears behind the make up and costume not my favorite film i have to say but definitely worth watching just for gary oldman performance i think in this case it was also the academy honoring a guy amazing british actor who he probably should have given an oscar to a decade or two ago now they're finally catching up and giving it to him for this but as i say well deserved performance and you know miles above most other most

other actors ok we saw we saw frances mcdormand lobbying for. women in getting recognition what about the me too debate and the whole sexual harassment discussion has been going on in hollywood did that put its mark on these oscars yet very much so i mean that was the theme going through the entire evening as i said not so much that was averted we saw the golden globes everyone wearing black in protest in solitary of meta movement that didn't happen this time this time the emphasis was much more at the oscars on concrete movements concrete things that can be done there's this new movie called time's up that was started in hollywood to food they've raised twenty one million dollars for legal support for women who've been harassed things like that those are the steps that are now taking place in hollywood after france was born dormant got her oscar she said we should have a rider on all contracts that requires every film made in hollywood to have a diversity clause in it so that we have a diverse group making the film from the camera and behind the camera make those the kind of steps they're now taking place and maybe this oscars will be the last

one where i'll be completely dominated by by white men ok scott roxboro a film buff thanks so much and now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world today australian cardinal george pell has appeared before a melbourne court at the start of hearings into sexual harassment abuse allegations against him hell is the most senior member of the catholic church to face charges judges will determine of the next several weeks if there's enough evidence to put him on trial the u.s. embassy in turkey's capital ankara is closed today and turkish authorities to bolster their presence in the area the turkish government says it received word from u.s. sources on possible terrorist threats and was increasing security in locations frequented by american citizens. thousands of people opposed to the split from spain gathered in barcelona in a mock rally calling for the fictional tabar nia region to separate from catalonia

this comes as a former cattle on leader is former scotland leader colors which the poet withdrew his bid for a second term on thursday. well italian voters have delivered a hung parliament election sunday setting the stage for political gridlock that could take months to resolve voters opted for anti establishment parties and the far right dumping the current center left administration into third place the poor results for centrist parties means that whichever coalition emerges from this ballot if any it will certainly won't be pro european will be testing the murky waters of italian politics this morning with our correspondent in rome but first this report. italy's voters have spoken according to projections the clear loser in these parliamentary elections the establishment. the five star movement led by thirty one year old luigi demaio was the biggest single party winner on the

day. it's anti corruption message resonated with voters especially in the impoverished south. that you know. one thing is certain from these preliminary results the five star movement will be the pillar of the next legislature. and the biggest block of votes went to a right wing coalition between former prime minister silvio berlusconi's forte's a. and the anti immigrant league that regardless of their strong showing it's unlikely that five star or the conservatives will achieve the necessary majority to govern outright. reeling from rising anti immigrant sentiment in a struggling economy the ruling democratic party and its center left coalition had a poor showing coming in third. barring any surprises with the final ballot

counts the country looks headed for a hung parliament this will likely mean weeks of tough negotiations to hammer out a governing coalition. glasses joins us now from rome georg this election result is a bit of a political earthquake what does it tell us about the country's political trajectory it will still take a couple of hours until we have official results but what we can already say is that more than fifty percent of the italians have voted for populist parties and this gives you a taste of the kind of desperation of the italian voter they have tried the center right they have tried the center left and now they have opted for someone new someone was zero experience the five star movement for instance or the leader nort to populist parties we have all the big winners of this election the big losers are the established parties of

a battle school need and deal runs. so what are the prospects of any of these parties coming together to actually form a government. of the five star movement is now about to become the single biggest party in this race but they have not enough votes to reach a majority by themselves now the problem is they have ruled out coalition so far but if they would opt for a coalition if you go by the money fast though a likely party could be the northern league a league of material salvini of homophobic anti immigrant euro skeptic a politician who has come out very strongly in fact went past a battle school me in this in the center right coalition and is now the strongest force in that coalition if they would team up together they could form a government guarantee that's the only option the only thing is that i talked to the leader of the five star movement reach of the myall only

a couple of days ago and he made very clear to me this is he said categorically no to such a coalition he said the real threat for europe the real threat for italy are far right parties of the sorts of marine le pen the german a.s.t and then he specifically named. as a threat to italy just briefly georg how will italy be governed then through what could be a sustained period of political limbo. for the italian president could decide that the ball attention loney the current prime minister just remains in place in other words a caretaker government that could run its elite and what is now the needed many say is is another electoral reform that two three four in the system and make it more possible to bring out one strong force that it has been reformed in the past in

a way to avoid a success of the five star movement but now this is came back like a boomerang to all the other parties because now no one is the strongest force in italy carrick thank you very much. is there in rome. when rome finally manages to get a government if it manages to get a government it's going to have to come to terms with some rather difficult economic problems when it has more we're going to be talking about this for the next weeks if not months terry forming coalition could take a lot of wrangling and that means the city could be facing the prospect of entering a period of deep political uncertainty which of course could then on the european union as a choice in which its financial reforms we want to new government in rome will have a lot to do when it comes to making sure that a city remains an attractive place to do business so we caught up with some company found his in milan to find out what they say they need to make their businesses thrive. he's a man with

a mission you know and the store matteo esposito makes software that allows supermarkets to go online in three d. his technology is a world market leader it's just that not many know about it and that's partly to do with where he is you know immediately when you're talking about food safe and design or he's ok when you're talking about technology. is different he also says the internet is still far too slow in many italians regions just like the country's bureaucracy but no one's taking the initiative to change things here the taxation is high and it's difficult to to raise funding since so maybe our counties that are more profitable have more of them more easy then. in the world bank's doing business index italy ranks lower than romania but some hope to change that especially in milan the country's commercial center. it's the

home of one of europe's biggest digital asset management companies money farm. founder paolo goldfine inhales the labor market reforms of recent years he says his city is leading the way when it comes to showing italy how to leave its economic malaise behind. is becoming more kind of an examples that the rest of the thirty two just like copy and moving in that direction saw i perceive me. as a more as a leader rather than a call back by the overall situation that overall situation is still very difficult italy's economy is growing slightly again but the people aren't feeling it more than ten percent of italian still have no job millions live in poverty there's deep rooted anger at the italian establishment. but gelfand he says he hasn't given up on italy even if it has

a lot of catching up to do the united states can have a meeting in twenty four hours when i can have a yes or nor in two days and here maybe i take weeks or months or so i see this gap . but i don't feel stuck in the here i'm proud to be here it may be a bumpy road ahead but more and more italians now say they want things to change over one idea that one a lot of voters was the idea of a universal basic income that was put forward by a euro skeptic five star movement which pulled well in the elections i was financial analyst if he thought it was doable. well when we had france elections last year in the pen the populistic candidate talked about a thirty week work or thirty hour working week and also about basic income.

it is feasible twenty five years ago if you remember back we talked about computers and role of robots and how much work they can do for us and in the end it's not less work today but it's it's the same amount of work and nothing has changed so basically it's possible but it won't be possible for italy alone and won't be possible for the eurozone alone because still we need to compete with asia pacific and we need to compete with the americas and the productivity downtick in europe just because of the basic income would be a bad thing in my opinion briefly you know what should a new government's top economic priorities be. they have been years of austerity now and no take in italy and now they need to have and says of how to print back to italy of how to bring back to the eurozone because in the end it's not italian solutions alone but it needs to be european solutions and know and so the new government should have answers to that actually

to have an italian answer and also have a eurozone answer can stand there from c.m.c. markets in frankfurt thank you. well as even says it's funny you know i.p.o. for its medical unit that could earn it as much as five billion euros german engineering giant selling a fifteen percent stake in health news is one of the most profitable divisions and makes medical devices like x. ray machines and diagnostic equipment the peers expected to begin on tuesday with the initial listing on the sixteenth of march. and is back over now terry thanks helena at long last the wait for a new german government is over that's because the social democrats have voted yes to joining a coalition again with chancellor angela merkel's conservative back will soon be sworn in for a fourth term as chancellor but for the center left social democrats getting to this point has brought out internal divisions that may prove difficult to heal. a

nightmare for s.p.d. party leaders didn't come to pass as the results were announced there was no applause and no cheering instead a reserved reaction from a cautious party leader who fought very hard for this yes. the social democratic party did not take this decision lightly and in the past few weeks they discussed the results of the coalition agreement openly and transparently these work important and exciting debates in which many members of the s.p.d. actively participated in. the results of the members vote is not exactly a cause for showing off s.p.d. leaders know that many in the party have struggled with this decision fearing that the s.p.d. will be completely sidelined in another grand coalition as p.d.u. swing boss kevin cunard back in the spotlight he became the figurehead of the resistance against a grand coalition and despite his disappointment says one of the more caucus ops

it's a democratic vote and of course we accept this result we're not sore losers and will try to make the best of it for who can dispense to the votes tomorrow out of the germans feel many are just happy to see a government take shape. when he does so if they can push through everything they are planning gladly otherwise new elections what good would that have done us now. it's not good whether it's good for the s.p.d. in the long run i don't know it's been months now good for the s.p.d. or not no one knows for now but in any case it will benefit the coalition partner the christian democrats. this is not the s.p.d. result is a good basis in addition ninety seven percent support from the cd use similar support from the c.s.u. a good coalition agreement and a good team that's good governance. the german president also satisfied germany will soon have a new government. this is it is simply good for our country that this phase of.

certainty and insecurity is over and that the three parties are prepared to take on the responsibility of governing. namen only the opposition has found a fly in the ointment amid a feeling of general relief. fact is the fact is that now the losers find themselves bound together and the statement is clearly carry on as usual. now until america is due to be sworn in again as chancellor on march fourteenth and scrutiny returns to a new edition of the grand coalition. china now where the parliament the national people's congress there has kicked off its annual meeting over the weekend in beijing is expected to approve changes to the constitution that would allow president xi jinping to stay in power for an unlimited number of terms that would reverse the system and acted in one thousand nine hundred two meant to prevent a lifelong tater ship in china report about his bowling and has more from beijing.

the look of a man who has every reason to feel satisfied after five years as the head of state in party xi jinping is at the peak of his policies. we will always maintain our strength and usefulness we will always be at the service of the people be the vanguard of our times and the backbone of the people and that always is taking on a new meaning she wants to remove the two term limits of the presidency from the constitution last fall he even managed to have his name written in the party statute only one other chinese statesman has achieved this during his lifetime chairman mao tse tung. no chinese leader in the past few decades has been as powerful as c. and none has been as unforgiving with the diverse areas within the communist party

and as tough on public dissent as him the most recent example he denied fatally ill nobel peace prize laureate. released on bail until his death. she was the son of a high ranking party official but his father fell out of favor during most country of the national. she him self was banished to the countryside where he lived in a cave in the work to define the chaos in our shrine personality she's. one of the few people whose to dare to criticize him publicly as political scientist would she. sooner or later he thinks she would get into trouble. in the us and if she so far dissatisfied chinese have blamed local authorities in particular for their problems really whole. lot but far more power she gathers

around himself. the more people will blame him for their dissatisfaction. but for the time being no one appears ready to challenges authority yet no one doubts that he will succeed because. borders term. china policy. and our correspondent here sperling who filed that report joins us now on the line from beijing but tell us mathias how is president xi justifying this move to scrap term limits affectively allowing himself to rule indefinitely. what has been no statement from him himself but often media officials have run a few editorials that justified the spy the need for more stability and more predictability off the chinese leadership in this critical phase of free full moons

china does not have the time to take a break is one of the sentences we heard it's quite interesting because for the last thirty years the chinese. communist party of china has has claimed that the typical stability is due to the collective leadership system and they have obvious definition now they have saying they need one person to lead so they kind of stability and many observers outside of china are looking at this with great concern that the possibility of see or someone else becoming president for life there is talk of the concerns about dictatorship in china is that criticism being echoed in china itself. it is it is but it's echoed on a very low scale i think a lot of analysts are scared it's two words opposition to this has been clamped on

on the internet even and you mentioned that could be attributed to this process of voting for term limits send even very. clever ways to get around and since you cannot use would ever have for example on the chinese internet you cannot use the name of we need to pull with the banner and for the name of it in the because she has often ridiculed with images of her we need the pool so there is concern in china we don't know how far it extends because any open discussion of this topic is off limits. but he is thanks. talking to us from beijing. and you are watching the news coming to you live from berlin we have more at the top of the next hour and you can all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site it's a g.w. dot com thanks for watching.

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