my. but you're a t t w. this is d w news live from berlin desperately needed food and supplies become a pawn in venezuela's political showdown venezuelan leader nicolas maduro orders the military to block aid from crossing tolls for the columbia border declared interim president one going to go calls on troops to defy orders which leader will

they obey also coming up theresa may heads to brussels once again seeking a way to avoid a no deal drags it but even leader donald tusk slams the last minute scramble saying those who pushed for breads it without a plan deserve a special place in hell and it is the hottest ticket in town the berlin film festival or program knowledge starts today cinema goers are already lining up for this year's buzzed about films in the race for the golden bear. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program a standoff over humanitarian aid deepens as venice will 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 venezuela's government led by nicholas my. do it o.

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 me do it over move from power now venezuela's military has to choose whether to obey government orders or let the a pass we have to support. venezuelan soldiers keep watch at the barricades of the t.n.t. does bridge border crossing president nicolas maduro has called aid supplies offered by the united states a 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 the opposition leader who last month declared himself venezuela's interim president. and. i give a direct order to the armed forces allow the necessary humanitarian aid to enter to take care of your family. that is put the focus on the military personnel at the

border and their commanders which president will they obey. pedestrian bridges at the border remain open venezuelans can still cross to buy goods they can't get at home but many who have no money to go shopping in neighboring colombia don't understand where the aid shipments are being stopped. i am asking you to please open the border. and let the food pass through me. see if like you say you really love finnish willa if you really feel something inside of you me if you love your family your children and you should to love them then you need to love us venezuelans as well i am asking you please open the border mist in the dura that i. do or has dismissed the us aid offer as a political show in the capital caracas supporters signed a petition that is to be sent to washington telling donald trump to keep his hands

off of venezuela. make him are not bad we want to see if there are rights and interests because external forces are attempting to seems our national wealth i. had a military rally on wednesday when they were called on troops to show patriotism and unite against the us. am i feel i mean what you mean by the us empire by the president of the united states of america mr donald trump. as you are the know. there is a fear this aid standoff could escalate but for now along the border the troops still appear to be following the orders of nicolas maduro. and with just fifty days until bar exam pritish prime minister to resign may is again heading to brussels may is determined to renegotiate her brags that deal she wants changes that would

earn in the back of britain's parliament u.k. lawmakers remain at odds over the proposed backstop a safety net solution to maintain an open border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland leaders have said that they won't gamble on peace with a return to the hard border on the island but with the pressure on tempers are flaring on both sides of the channel. only fifty days to go and still no solution in sight fear of heartbreaks it is growing day by day much and so is the frustration in brussels watching to resume a head towards a no deal exit. 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 so every 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 i ever her was to speak her sometimes the truth hurts doesn't i for nigel for raj the former leader of the euro skeptic party who kept comment as 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 seem willing to renegotiate the deal. when i get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world rescuers in the turkish city of istanbul are battling to free people trapped in the rubble of wednesday's building collapse rescuers have already been able to pull that at least thirteen survivors from the building debris including one five year old girl three people have been found dead. u.s. president donald trump says that the coalition fighting the so-called islamic state has reclaimed nearly all of the territory once held by the extremist group trump also a welcome to the impending withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria u.s. military leaders and allies have voiced concerns that the pullout could trigger a resurgence of us. investigators have recovered an unidentified body from the wreckage of the plane carrying football or a million of sallah and pilot david ibsen the wreckage had been found near an

island in the english channel following the plane's disappearance on january twenty first bad weather has impeded attempts to pull the plane's remnants to shore. now to the event that movie fans in berlin look forward to every year the berlin film festival or berlin allah begins today and unprecedented lineup of female directors are mung those vying for the top prize the golden bear the jury will be chaired by french star julie have been notion and fans have already been lining up for the hottest tickets. defense i want to make the building on is 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 they get in line enough. to read every single synopsis of every movie and made my choices but. i wasn't prepared for how difficult it is to get tickets for 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. french osco winner juliette binoche will 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 a chef it 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 values and they were anyones and for years now.

this year's betty not a set of greats women festival director due to a costly excess it's a reaction to the gender equality debate. as it truly off. course this is partially a result of the ongoing debate departed 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. one powerful entry is by price winning director. shockey in the golden glow if you profile is a notorious serial killer. this man will be landing the festival at some point he would be christian based playing former us vice president dick cheney the biomedical fin presents him as a poet hungry politician really intelligence brief for the president gets

a sense of the decision to prove. they're standing at the nonnes main venue the red carpet is 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 analyzed you know what's what what do you see as being special this year. obviously the films are always the special thing the special focus will be talk about that in a minute but what i think is really interesting this year at the banal is basically the context in which it's taking place because. i think partially mentioned some things before about the female representation we also talked about in a minute but i think the industry the film industry is just going through seismic transformation at the moment because basically because of streaming services and in

particular netflix i mean it's amazing if you look one of the four i was for this year's oscars is roma from a phone call which is a netflix film ten nominations and so forth and this year we have our very first netflix film in competition at the. also a black and white spanish language film by coincidence from a special. and i think the discussion about what is cinema what our festival is for what does it mean where you see a movie how you see. that's a discussion that's taking place all crossed berlin on all levels of the of the belly nada and i think a lot of the discussions what they lead to will be sort of the legacy of this this year's festival what do you make of the choice of the opening film the kindness of strangers well i really like the director she's alone she's a danish director but she's best known for english language movies and education one day and what i find interesting about her is she sort of took quite disparaged

the 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 set 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 i know it's also got to be really really funny she always is able to meet makes the the sweet with the sour and give sort of pope sort of social commentary but still allow you to have a guitar while you're watching his she's a female director of gender representation you mentioned it's a really hot topic this year not surprisingly you know of course but you have to say berlin's the only of the big film festivals to really put its money where its

mouth is i mean the lot of the competition line 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 have three of twenty one directors were female that is one of twenty one 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. yes they released a big study saying this is. the films that were submitted here are who directed the male female all through through all the different categories of so much talk of the editor male female just to give an idea of what the true general presentation is and then to take take real action and i think we'll see what happens with the a lot of this year but at least agenda representation is forefront at the bell and as well should the scott roxboro so much look forward to. two weeks best two weeks

of my life in our lives do we get it we get to watch and as you as you watch all these films thanks scott and. you're watching news coming up next the doc film brutal virtual victims seek help in germany female genital mutilation is a serious violation of human rights yet and as to me that two hundred million women worldwide have suffered it as children i'm sorry kelly in berlin and all that more coming up thanks for watching. i. hear what's coming up for the book go to sleep you have plenty to talk about here what. is cut to take a look at what all that means for the table of course. the bundesliga every weekend here on w.