this is t w news coming to you live from berlin the best picture oscar goes to the shape of water to record you know madonna toros cold war fantasy makes a splash at the academy awards will have the whole round up of also good night pilots and how wins for women seize the spotlight also on the program italy faces months of political gridlock with no clear winner after sunday's national elections voters abandon the center with early results showing the search for a far right and populist party. but some certainty for germany social democrats

give the grand coalition a green light clearing the way for a new government a political correspondent tells us about the challenges piling up for chancellor uncle of my. fellow i'm terry martin welcome to the program. hollywood's brightest stars gathered in los angeles for the ninety eighth annual academy awards on sunday the night's big winner it was filmmaker guillermo del toro the shape of water which netted him two oscars for best picture and best view 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 took best actress for audience

favorite three billboards outside and being ms story by fall of a pick me up if i've got something to. well for more on the oscar action we're joined by our film buff scott roxboro shape water one of the favorites nominated thirteen times for four awards is the movie really worthy of receiving the best picture award yeah i think so i mean it's one of these big fairytale fantasy stories which the academy often really likes to give best picture to story of of a mute woman who falls in love with the sea creature in one nine hundred fifty s. america but it's not only this sort of very visually spectacular film that shows that the magic of cinema it's also quite in some ways quite socially relevant because it literally is about giving voice to the voiceless you two characters in this film a mute woman and this sea creature who literally don't have a voice and so the whole film is really a metaphor for inclusion and diversity which was the big themes of this year's

oscars and you know full kind of beauty and the beast romance very much so very much so classic story best oscar for oscar for best male actor that went to gary oldman for the darkest hour no surprise no i mean this is a classic oscar winning performance gary oldman great british actor impersonates winston churchill and sort of disappears in the role he spent like five hours every day getting all the make up so he becomes winston churchill in this film the film itself for me not a huge not a great great movie but worth seeing just for gary oldman performance and you can't begrudge the man his oscar i mean he's one of the best actors working today and definitely deserve the best female actor best actress says it's called frances mcdormand this was her second oscar yes she won for fargo decades ago now gone and sold remember that very clearly this time she won for three billboards outside epping missouri where she plays a really tough woman a mother who's lost her daughter in a brutal crime murder she thinks the police aren't doing enough to investigate it

so she rents three billboards outside her home basically trying to shame the police into taking as. action based on a true story it's a movie about social activism which is probably why cut a lot of attention at the oscars this year but also very much for her performance which is amazing she's the tough woman par excellence as you really delivered in this film frances mcdormand also showing a bit of activism there in her in her of her speech acceptance speech yeah you know she's quite amazing i mean obviously the whole me to movement and the question of diversity and inclusion of dominated the conversation before the oscars and i at the ceremony last night and with friends with over did when she accepted her oscar she she put it down on the stage and then she called on all the female nominees in the audience in all categories to stand up and celebrate with her i think with a clip of of exactly that moment from the oscars this let's 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. earth was worth. the money people who who run the business in hollywood to not just play lip service to inclusion or diversity but to really give these women in the audience jobs to give them good roles and she called also what i thought was very interesting for inclusion in the actual contracts written for films is saying future films should have inclusion rider meaning that any movie made in hollywood should be in the contract that has to have a diverse personnel female male different minorities and so forth in front of camera and behind the camera such shows that this sort of political movement that started with me to a last year is really starting to think influence how films are made at hollywood

scott thanks so much out from the scott ross perot thing. now some other stories making news around the world today australian cardinal george pell one the most senior officials in the vatican has appeared before a melbourne court for the first day of hearings into his store called sexual abuse allegations judges will determine over 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 have 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. and thousands of people opposed to catalan independence gathered in barcelona in a mock rally calling for the fictional tom barnea region to separate from catalonia this comes as former catalan leader khalid who's damone withdrew his bid for

a second term on thursday. italian voters have delivered a hung parliament in elections sunday setting the stage for political gridlock gridlock that could take months to clear up for the mary results give the center right coalition thirty seven percent while the anti establishment five star movement has stepped up thirty one percent that leaves centrist parties in third place and whichever coalition merges from this ballot if any and almost certainly won't be pro e.u. 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.

one thing is certain from these preliminary results the five star movement will be the pillar of the next legislature. then she manages the. and the biggest block of votes went to a right wing coalition between former prime minister silvio berlusconi's forte's a talia and the anti immigrant league. 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 core showing coming in third. barring any surprises with the final ballot counts the country looks headed for a hung parliament this would likely mean weeks of tough negotiations to hammer out

a governing coalition. only but. still 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 nor to populist parties we have other big winners of this election the big losers are the established parties of battle stony and deal renzi 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 schooling 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 maior 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.d. and then he specifically named. as a threat to italy ok so a big shift a big upset there in italy what are the implications of this election for the european union. i'd say ever since bracks said both far right and far left the populists in italy have toned down their rhetoric their euro skeptic rhetoric rhetoric dramatically they have seen that marine le pen in the french elections with euro skeptic complain it was not successful and so they moved away from this the real threat for europe here is a dysfunctional italian government a hung parliament with weeks of of of haggling of horse trading that will distract from the solving the actual problems the country has with a deeper

a debt crisis with a micro try since all of these things will be left on the table while the haggling is going on on the in back rooms so just briefly georg how will italy be governed then through what could be a sustained period of political limbo. well 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 needed many say is is another electoral reform that could reform the system and make it more possible to bring out one strong force 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 well whoever ends up running italy's government will have to grapple with some difficult economic issues helena has been has right of course forming that coalition if and when could potentially takes weeks of negotiation and not means that a to me faces the prospect of entering a period of deep political uncertainty and that could be on nothing to the european union as well as it tries to launch financial reforms meanwhile a new government can by will have a lot to do to make sure it's me remains an attractive place to do business we caught up with some company found is in milan to find out what they say they need to make sure that businesses thrive. he's a man with a mission now 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 when you're talking about food facial 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 spirit prosy but no one's taking the initiative to change things here the taxation is high and it's difficult to raise funding since or maybe 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 galavanting hails 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. and he has become more kind of an examples that the rest of you trying to copy and move in that direction so. i perceive me. as a more as a leader rather than backed 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 gulf only says he hasn't given up on italy even if it has a lot of catching up to do the united states they 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 the stock of the here i'm proud to be here it may be a bumpy road ahead but more and more italian is now say they want things to change . well asian markets fell at the start of the week fallout from u.s. president trump steel an aluminum terrorists that's continuing to feed concerns over a global trade war commerce secretary wilbur ross defended the president's decision on u.s. television saying trump does not plan any exemptions to the tariffs of those who said threats of retaliation retires on american products in europe with an insignificant and from an accounting for each of you would only amount to a rounding error. so a pretty defiant start coming from across the atlantic let's find out if marcus in frankfurt all still concerned about a trade war by speaking to our financial correspondent who is there for us this morning we bought so he concerns of

a trade war can we expect this to move markets today. yes the markets are going down and they're not going down that considerably not like on friday when steel and aluminum first came up but knowledge trump talked over the weekend about cars and you couldn't say a nastier word at least to the european markets i'm sure in japan and south korea as well than tariffs on cars because here in germany it's the backbone of industry hundreds of thousands of jobs depend on cars selling well worldwide only a fraction only about twenty percent of the car production is being sold here in germany and most of it is exported lot of it to the united states and lots of these factories are in regions where there's not much else car shares are going down more than others today certainly that is a source finally here in germany we have got a government taking shape is that route any relief. yes huge relief you know the

traders are in showing that they're quite cool characters here but i talked to people on friday when it was still looming and it was still unclear whether there would be a yes there was really no indication how it was going some people were saying yes i think that they'll be yes but people were nervous and i talked to an analyst for example who said yes i can talk to you on monday morning but not if the s.p.d. if the s.p.d. says no then we've got a real problem so that was the mindset huge relief now but we just talked about italy in the program the hung parliament there also not a good story here for the market that's contributes to everyone holding back here will be one problem full another financial correspondent thanks for that. says it is planning an i.p.o. for its medical unit that could and it is not just five billion euros german engineering giant selling a fifteen percent stake in health and is known as humans most profitable divisions

it makes medical devices like x. ray machines and diagnostic equipment the office period is expected to begin on choose day we did michel listing on the sixteenth of march. well as i was tearing out as a government here in germany begins to take shape that's right helen it's taken five months holds half a year but the wait for a new german government is finally over that's after the social democrats voted yes to joining a coalition yet again with a chance of going to his conservatives the results of the s.p.d. membership ballot was announced sunday with two thirds of the party's rank and file ultimately backing the leadership bid for another grand coalition the result of michael is now set to be reelected in office when the german parliament bonus talk meets next wednesday. w.'s chief political editor mckayla cook joins us now for some analysis good morning mikaela this is a bit of

a watershed moment it must be said a lot finally falling into place with the formation of a new government what's happening today here is it appears that demi is somewhat gone full circle and we'll see a continuation of the current of course so-called grand coalition of the sister democrats and the c.d.u. we're expecting to a chance to undemocratic the statement today at ten am and we also expect a conservative end of her conservative coalition the c.s.u. in bavaria to tell us who they want to send in to a future cabinet and on the back of this must be a real collective sigh of relief for germany even for german voters after months of not knowing what's going to happen in terms of their government well actually we did see the impatience grow in the polling over these past five months in the end want to see a government in fact we've heard voices from the opposition who were saying who basically had accepted that the grand coalition is what it's going to be now also this signals already from the free democrats and the greens who of course failed to

form this so-called to make a coalition with machall i mean we saw a failed attempt leading up to this we tend to almost forget that now it is saying that they would actually be co-operative on key issues like education reform here in the financing of education so some signals that there will be a broader support for this on particular issues for foreign audience i think i think that the expectation that germany would stay this beacon of stability in europe is the correct one we're not going to see a complete change of course here after all but we will certainly see a more open arms policy towards europe europe which was the plans of a man on my call in france who of course had already mapped out his vision for a closer europe also of different speeds last summer and so many still owes him an answer the difference. between something that was dominated by the conservatives around machall would have been it would have been a warm hound handshake i think now we'll see more of

a woman brace for the system across the board ok so germany may be embracing europe even more in that with this new government what about the personnel questions the faces in merkel's new cabinet chancellor merkel herself will remain chancellor but what about the rest were cabinet but she already mapped out who it is going to be and certainly that we see some known faces like defense minister we see one of her key critics actually doing the health ministry so that's an indication that she is kind of reforming her own party she's allowing more debate also around too will eventually become her successor but now her position has been more secure we will learn today from the conservative c.s.u. and very soon they will send most prominently hostie will for who will become interior minister and the social democrats despite all this time that they have still won't really let us in on who will be the best six ministers ascending but we all expect or if so it seems the interim policy has the man to come back to become

the finance minister and everything else would be an up people a surprise he would also be expected to be the deputy tonsil i don't think so the big question for the s.p.d. who are they going to put up as foreign minister a lot of people watching that one just briefly how stable do you think this government is going to be given all the internal divisions i think it is very stable in the sense that both sides know each other they actually have one hundred seventy seven pages of an agreement so frankly this seems to be more than a roadmap for government they simply have to what the their way down the list of policies that they've put down in in key detail but at the same time this was a very difficult plotinus for the social democrats to take if they are embroiled in a fight for survival as as a mainstream a party left of the center now if that comes to a head once again it might not last the full term but i would expect it to do so to be a cheap political editor make it a quicker thanks so much. and as bikila mentioned chancellor merkel is expected to

deliver an address in just about half an hour from now d.w. will be carrying that live now to china's government has pledged to deliver robust economic growth and boost military spending by more than eight percent so they this news emerging from the annual meeting of the national people's congress but the two week gathering is likely to be overshadowed by a vote to end constitutional limits on president xi jinping is roll his office has few powers but he does hold vital posts such as party general secretary and heads the group that controls the nation's armed forces ending presidential she's term limits would reverse a system and acted in nine hundred eighty two meant to prevent along a lifelong dictatorship in china. 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 powers. we will always maintain our strength and youthfulness 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 these during his lifetime cham in moments of time. no chinese leader in the past few decades has been as powerful as c. and none has been as unforgiving with adverse reason within the communist party and as tough on public dissent as him. the most recent example he denied fatally

ill nobel peace prize laureate lou szabo 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 lynch. see him self was banished to the countryside where he lived in a cave and worked in the front pages and i was trying to personality she's. one of the few people whose to dare to criticize him publicly is political scientist would. sooner or later he things she would get into trouble. she so far dissatisfied chinese have blamed local authorities in particular for their problems. but the more power she gathers around himself the more people will blame him for their dissatisfaction. but for the time being no one appears ready for the challenges of fourteen yet no one dollars to few

will succeed because he's going to term limits on time movement over time possibly . just reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on day to be a news director guillermo del toro takes home two oscars for his cold war fantasy the shape of water a movie netted best picture and best director. we have more news coming up for you at the top of the next hour and you can get all the latest news there the website. called thanks for. the.

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