to get out of. this is d w news live from berlin venezuela's president maduro orders the military to block. the desperately needed food and supplies from entering the country program door troops barricade its border crossings with colombia the planned delivery route but self declared interim president one why don't calls on troops to allow him to hats which leader will they obey. also coming up to resign manning heads to brussels once again seeking a way to avoid

a deal bribe said but e.u. leaders post slams the last minute scramble saying that those who pushed for bribes it without a plan deserve a special place in hell and it is the hottest ticket in town the berlin film festival or berlin alla starts today and cinema goers are already lined up for this year's buzzed about films in the brace for the golden bear. welcome to the program a standoff over humanitarian aid deepens as venice well as political crisis plays out on the country's border a convoy with desperately needed aid remains stuck at the colombian border city of kuta now then as well as government led by president nicolas maduro has ordered the army not to allow this aid in. it has been organized by the united states and

venezuela's opposition who want to see him a doodle removed from power now venezuela's military has to choose whether to obey government orders or let be a pass we have this report from the border. venezuelan soldiers keeping watch at the barricades on the chingy test bridge border crossing president nicolas maduro says aid supplies offered by the united states her form of foreign intervention he's ordered the soldiers to turn the assistance away. but the soldiers have also been given another order by one kwyjibo the opposition leader who last month declared himself in his way less interim president. and it was not. only needed can i give a direct order to the armed forces in putting allow the necessary humanitarian aide to enter to take care of your family to the media. that is put the focus on the soldiers at the border and their commanders which president will be

a big. pedestrian bridges at the border remain open venezuelans can still cross the frontier to buy goods they cannot get at home but many who have no money to go shopping in colombia do not understand why the age shipments are being stopped. when make i am book at home on it have set me quite a bit and not just me but most people i think both the opposition and people who support the government view it unfavorably because you know what he said as others have said whether you are for the opposition or for the government if a child gets sick and you can't get medicine and that person dies that said i am asking you to please open the border. let the food pass. it's like you say you really love been a swale or if you really feel something inside of you if you love your family your children and you should to love them then you need to love us venezuelans as well

i'm asking you please open the border mr maturer. nicolas maduro has dismissed the u.s. aid offer as a political show in the capital caracas madeira supporters signed a petition that's to be sent to washington telling donald trump to keep his hands off venezuela. and let's get more now let's cross over to the venezuelan capital caracas from where did correspondent oscar schleicher joins us on the line so oscar what is the situation on the bridge right now. well the situation at the border bridge remains blocked from the venezuelan side this is a bridge that was just constructed at the border in an area that has not much transit so it came into focus when most of the humanitarian aid sent the columbia was being gathered here this passing however as venezuela was rushed block this bridge and prevent i'm sorry but it's where the puerto rico secretary of state bet

on my team announced shipment arrives. a passenger plane on what he said was a secret flight so while all the a concern of them is one public and the media was focused on the colombia border protocol going to be filled with a ton of humanitarian aid into limits where the. secretary of state of puerto ricans calling a secret mission ok so some aid indeed is getting through but i just want to quickly return to you know the aid that is supposed to arrive by land because we know that the opposition leader why don't you have spoken about that and i'd like to you to take us through a couple scenarios here i mean if it does end up getting through over this bridge what happens then and why i don't have a plan. it began when i was indicated there are between two hundred fifty and three hundred thousand people who need urgent medical help and are at

risk of dying people who need medicine and urgent care to serve their first cargo of trying to quit on the and the caribbean it's enough to keep the war hospitals running for one month but that is being delivered smoking nutritional supplements for children which have been the most vulnerable to malnutrition these last few years difference we learned of twelve children who died in june from a career year outbreak you know often only nine swapping for example. didn't bring much needed and could help a lot of people. and we know that diplomats are also weighing in on the situation and we heard from germany's foreign minister minister i just want to listen in to what he said and then get your reaction there after. i heard them all but one guy daughter i spoke with this morning any particular told him the chimneys prepared to provide humanitarian night and in

a first if it's making five million euros a violet. and we discussed how this humanitarian night could be delivered to venice while. at the moment the majority jane is preventing. how far our allies like germany like we just heard right there willing to go in order to get this particular shipment of aid through. you know something there's a reason we have it could be a possibility and have expressed in our worries about u.s. intervention in south america however just wouldn't go into here because us would consider lifting the sanctions from high ranking officers who recognize long one of our presidents and i'm not going to go so it seems they are doing everything they can to manipulate a peaceful resolution to alice model before having to enter and that's where i want my google he's holding his counselors dollars and has ordered the military to

oriole their weapons to the side of the country so anything can happen but good flights coming in from puerto rico is something they will definitely be talking about today ok and again confirming that for us that puerto rico has been able to get aid in to the country by air as many were waiting for that shipment by land which is currently blocked oscars flanker with the very latest on the situation from caracas the venezuelan capital thank you it's well now with gregg's and coming ever closer british prime minister theresa may is heading to brussels today for talks yet again may is determined to renegotiate the brings a deal and it seems that she is trying to buy more time for it the british newspaper the telegraph reports that may is preparing to delay a second vote on her brags a deal until the end of february but her hopes for renegotiation could be doomed as tempers and nerves friday in europe. only fifty days to go

and still no solution in sight. of a hot bricks it is growing day by day much and so the frustration in brussels watching to reason may head towards a no deal except i've been wondering what that special place. in the whole looks like for those who promoted it. without even a sketch of a plan how to cover it safely a provocative statement that irish prime minister leo varadkar predicted would not sit well with those it was aimed at. and not only in the press the response coming out of westminster was fast and furious i don't recall sir even the president insulting members of this house members of the government and the british people in such a way others took a step back to look at the bigger picture it was her there was to

speak her sometimes the truth hurts doesn't i for nigel thoreau much the former leader of the euro skeptic party who kept to six comment is proof of why britain wanted to leave the e.u. in the first place after brics it will be free of unelected arrogant bullies like you and run our own country sounds more like heaven to me. heaven hell or somewhere in between it's up to theresa may have to meetings in belfast the british prime minister will be back in brussels today seeking fresh concessions on the withdrawal agreement however neither donald tusk nor european commission president john claud seem willing to renegotiate the deal. and we asked clinton peel associate fellow of the year program of the think tank chatham house what options to recently as. the trouble is everything is possible the nightmare for two reason may and she's gone on and on and on trying to deliver

a deal that is except to bolt to her right wing hard line breaks it says and also to the democratic unionist party from northern ireland and it really doesn't look as if there's any deal that's acceptable to them that is also acceptable to the twenty seven other members of the european union they're saying look get across party deal where is softer form of brecht's that you would have a majority in parliament then and come back to us but that would split the conservative party so they don't want an election because they'd be going into it totally split the labor party says it wants an election but it's also split i do think that the possibility of another referendum is still there but even that doesn't have a majority in parliament at the moment we're really in deadlock which is why there's growing fear in brussels i think that no deal might be the accidental outcome. that was princeton speaking with us

a short while ago in about twenty minutes we'll bring you more on brags that and its potential economic implications that's coming up and eat up your business but first a quick check of some other stories making news around the world two days of peace talks between the taliban and afghan politicians have concluded in moscow the taliban delegation restated their call for the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan former afghan president hamid karzai said the old sides agreed to seek lasting peace despite disagreements over women's rights and the taliban's demand for an islamic constitution. a four story building has collapsed in a residential area of the egyptian city of luxor killing at least three people the victims were two egyptian girls and a female german tourist who was walking past the building at least thirteen others were injured including a german man. and twenty eighteen has been ranked among the five warmest years on record this is the conclusion that several scientific organizations came to among

them nasa studies have also found that twenty sixteen was the hottest year since global temperature records began scientists say the temperatures are expected to continue rising in the coming years. macedonia has taken a big step toward becoming the thirtieth member of nato the world's biggest military alliance the government has signed accession papers and must now wait for them to be ratified by all of nato members the move comes after the resolution of a years long dispute with neighboring greece over macedonia as named the former yugoslav republic will be renamed to north macedonia once athens also a nato member endorses the accession protocol now the macedonia foreign minister nicolas dimitrov spoke with d.w. correspondent teri schultz after the signing ceremony have a listen mr foreign minister thank you very much for making time on this very busy day thanks for having me. this is a very big day secretary general says it's

a big day on a story day for macedonia and also for the alliance one thing that stuck with me from what you said is that now macedonia will never walk alone what do you mean by that. we've been lonely we've been trying to join in forty years the first the cooperation of our parliament was dates back to ninety three. and this is a quarter of a century now and plus. and with the step now as the exceptional protocol that was just signed today goes through the twenty nine parliaments of the allies of the member states we will be part of the family so the journey is easier. when you have friends around so this is what i meant and do you think that the sacrifice will be worth it i have i have friends who are

pro nato pro europe and even they have mixed feelings about what it took to get you here today we have four major. motivations the results of the press agreement discolored process the first two are looking getting out of the waiting room both to nato and indeed you. the third and all of them are very important the third of my niece making a friend. with her neighbors. greece which i think is probably the fundamental purpose of any diplomacy. if there is an issue to resolve it to build the breach to become closer to become friends and the fourth one is i think also very important and this is our historically conciliation. between the peoples in the region that is so rich in history but struggles to

produce future. identity issues are always very difficult very emotional. and it has been difficult on both sides of the border. macedonia was to some extent protected. in the former yugoslav base as part of a bigger for the ration when yugoslavia fell apart when we declared our independence we had these issues we are neighbors. so i think it will take time and good faith implementation. but i think people will be convinced even those who oppose the agreement today both from greece and from macedonia that this was the right thing to do. well now u.s.

president donald trump has named treasury department official david malpass as his pick to lead the world bank has been a longtime critic of the bank which focuses on global poverty trump said that the world bank should quote defend american values trumps announcement of longtime treasury official david malpass as world bank pick on wednesday was widely expected because america is the largest contributor to the world bank giving it over one billion dollars every year my administration has made it a top priority to ensure that u.s. taxpayers dollars are spent effectively and wisely. serve american interests and defend american values david has been a strong advocate for accountability at the world bank for a long time. the decision to choose miles is being interpreted as a sign the trumpet ministration wants to rein in the financial institution. has

been a consistent critic of the world bank and he is expected to try and reduce its role . it is a longstanding convention for the u.s. president to nominate the head of the world bank it is not to cheer if other countries will propose alternatives to challenge us football now and the inventing no is almost guaranteed to serve a second term of president with nobody else standing in john's election in front of you know has been in charge of world football's governing body since twenty sixteen taking over in the wake of the sport's worst ever corruption scandal the forty eight year old will be unopposed after his only potential challenger former player ramon vega failed to secure the backing of at least five of fief as two hundred eleven federations. in the german cup byron munich came through a rollercoaster match with had to berlin three two to advance to the fourth round kingsley coleman headed by irons winner after a glaring error from mats hummels and allowed heritage to take the tie into extra

time elsewhere there were narrow wins for out spurs and life's a while shock of the door for one that match was overshadowed by news of the death of a sour shock as legendary former general manager manager he was seventy four and now the events movie fans in berlin look forward to every year the berlin film festival or berlin alice starts today this year the competition fields an unprecedented lineup of female directors among those vying for the top prize the golden bear the jury will be chaired by the french star juliet but no she and fans have already been lining up for the hottest tickets. the fans i want to make to be not in such a unique event it attracts the largest audience of any film festival in the world and anyone can get tickets here as long as i get in line enough. i read every single synopsis of every movie and made my choices but. i wasn't

prepared for how difficult it is to get to. the puzzle you have to fit the movies the timing but you have to fit quick because there's a lot of ticket offices and they fly very quick nearly four hundred movies will be presented and one thing is for sure it's going to be a women's ballerina francesco winner juliet in nashville beat the jury british actress charla dram doing receive the honorary bear for her lifetime achievement and seven off the seventeen movies running for a golden bear were directed by women a belly now a record and a milestone for an a list festival. and it's a woman who's kicking off the movie marathon danish director lone to share fish will open the festival with a film the kindness of strangers in it she tells the story of a group of people who meet during a cold york winter. and they were any once and for years now.

this year's barely not a set of greats women festival director due to a costly excess it's a reaction to the gender equality debate. that truly. of course this is partially a result of the ongoing debate. our views have expanded and we're learning to question things. but i have to stress that we didn't include any films where we weren't convinced of the quality from the. german films are also well represented at. one powerful entry is by prize winning director of. in the golden glow if you profile is a notorious serial killer. because this is the decision approved. understanding. on its main venue the red carpet does being rolled out this year

it's environmentally friendly it's made of recycled fishing nets so now it's green and glamorous. and with me here in the studio is our film expert scott roxboro i mean you've really analyze you know what's what what do you see as being sort of took quite disparate shondra romantic comedy and she's given it real sort of intellectual and emotional have to be just sort of filler this film is interesting because it's a setting in in new york it's a first film set in america all the other films of europe and its stars because. andrea risperdal and it's basically the sort of romantic melodrama about people sort of falling out of the system so it's a bit of a social commentary but if i know it's also got to be really really funny she always is able to me makes the the sweet with the sour and gives sort of fun of

this year has i think seven female directors of seventeen which is forty one percent of my mass right which is not fifty percent but it's better than by far than any of the other big festivals mean can last year had three of twenty one directors were female bettas had one of twenty what berlin has said they've done this even before the b two movement and the time's up movement but that's definitely given more impetus to make real changes and berlin has been also the most transparent saying they've read yes they released at least agenda representation is forefront of the bill and as well should be got roxboro so much to look forward to the oh yeah three weeks that's two weeks of my life of our lives do we get to it we get to watch and as you as you watch all these films thanks scott. when i was going to check more quick reminder rather of the top stories that we've been following for you troops loyal to venezuelan president nicolas maduro have barricaded of border bridge with colombia he's ordered them to block the delivery of humanitarian aid offered by foreign governments to the self

declared interim president one by doe has called on troops to allow the supplies to pass. and prime minister to resume a heads to brussels today seeking concessions that would allow the u.k. to avoid a no deal gregg's it but she's facing fierce resistance from e.u. leaders who have said that negotiations are close to britain's divorce from the e.u. is now just fifteen days away. you're watching g.w. news coming up next indeed business european and british businesses looking anxiously toward a resolution of the rights stalemate but companies have already taken precautions for the u.k. crashing and the e.u. without and. all that more is coming up with my colleague chris talk over in just a few minutes i'm sorry kelly in berlin thanks for watching.

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