this is g.w. news of live from berlin tonight a pipeline from russia to germany a giant energy project now considered by some to be a threat to western security the u.s. and france want the country germany to abandon a pipeline supplying russian gas they say it could undermine security for western europe but the religion says that criticism is unfounded also coming up donald trump and kim jong un are to meet in vietnam but why they are the answer is

a page right out of the history books plus the curtain goes up on this year's berlin film festival there are seventeen films in competition this year including the kindness of strangers by director mon cher will have a preview of that and the many other treats hitting the silver screen this year. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome here in germany plans for a pipeline supplying russian gas have been thrown into doubt by international opposition the united states ambassador to berlin has urged germany to ditch the nord stream two project and tonight france says it could halt the construction process by subjecting the russian company building it. tougher european union rules

of critics say the pipeline which is due to start pumping later this year will make germany dependent on moscow for energy and it will undermine european security that leaves a key part of germany's energy strategy suddenly under threat of construction of the north stream two pipeline is a ready well underway but the face of the project lies in the balance e.u. members have not yet agreed on how to proceed and germany and france in particular appear to be at odds over the regulation of the pipeline but transport gosford russia to germany via the baltic sea the project in its current form is operated by russian state energy company. several german energy firms and one french company have also invested in this. at the heart of division within the e.u. is a plan to extend the blocks rules to foreign operations pipelines e.u. regulations require a separation of sales and pipeline operation activities should those rules be

extended to gas problem it would mean that the project in its current form at least could not precede. the changes in the pipeline you could say for more on this story tonight i'm joined by my colleague right here kate brady at the big table and in brussels our very own barbara let me start with you this last minute announcement by france that it could support. extending the european union's control over the project i mean how much of a of a setback is this for germany. that is a rather severe setback for germany and also throws some doubt of course on the state of french german relations because france has have germany's back for this project for quite some time now the two big countries so formed a blocking majority minority in the deliberations of the european council of and governments meet and discuss this and so this is the regulation couldn't go ahead

in france no turns away the question is why is some speculate that they are finally caving in to us american pressure in order to save guard their own energy investments within russia and their own economic interests there and then there is also. the fact that in london mccrone the french president's not going to hear next on the weekend long side under the americans at the munich security conference so there is a log rolling around and nobody could knows quite what's what at the moment you know there's a surprise to the here that about the munich security conference so what does this mean for german relations play certainly not a positive sign and it could be just another issue to add to that ever growing list of disagreements that we've seen growing over the past few months now between france and germany on any kind of issue from finance to energy to military to e.u.

reforms you name it that is on that list of disagreements right now between france and germany but if you compare that to the symbolic friendship that's a completely different bowl games they obviously when it comes to policies france and germany still have a lot to agree on you know they just renewed their friendship pact two weeks ago which makes it even more disturbing what we're hearing tonight the u.s. ambassador richard grinnell he has also weighed in on the issue of he's urging germany to abandon nord stream the german chancellor angela merkel she has responded to that take a listen. and i think if you could fully become dependent on russia because of this gas pipeline would i say no if we diversify at the same time. germany will expand its gas terminals with regard to liquefied gas. is that means that we don't want to make ourselves dependent on russia and that in these circumstances. but russia was

a source of gas during the cold war and it will remain so today without us entering into one sided dependence. is that enough to. reassure critics of this deal i don't think it will be enough to quieten down that criticism right now based defense of old in this project i don't think they are going to go away overnight if anything since donald trump became that the us president that those complaints over this project have been getting louder and louder from washington so i think there would have to be an awful lot of opposition making if maybe even from the a year as you were discussing with barbara that it would take a lot of opposition to bring this project to a halt and of course a lot has also been invested in it and there are also already been huge environmental impacts i keep brady here the big table with me and barbara vessel in brussels to both of you thank you. well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the british prime minister to resign may and

european commission president john called younker have pledged to continue talks over breaks it but younger once again refused to renegotiate the terms of the already agreed withdrawal deal which oversees britain's divorce from the e.u. breaks it is set to begin march twenty ninth swedish police say a norwegian airplane bound for france with one hundred sixty nine passengers on board has returned to stockholm's our lawn the airport after receiving a bomb threat the plane was a bank you wait it is being searched by bomb the experts members of the national swimming team were among the passengers. or the one eyed france has recalled its ambassador to italy in protest of a series of verbal attacks by the italian government french president emanuel summoned christiane must take back to paris for consultations relations between italy and france they have grown increasingly tense since mid two thousand and eighteen mostly because of disagreements over migration policy at

a news conference today italy's interior minister matteo salvini outlined his country's grievance is also insisting italy would welcome to all. over the past two years on the french italian border the french government bush thinks is so generous and hospitable sent back more than sixty thousand people including women and children some of them were abandoned in the woods at night to me that's not the behavior of a civilized country. every day they are he conducts inspections on trains carrying commuters from a to d. to france wasting hours and hours of working times if that continues italian police will be forced to do the same to trains entering it's only from france. for. thirty three to get the french. as materials speaking their well the future of air buses pristine beaches eighty three. is on shaky grounds yet again australia's quantas

airlines as cancelled an order for eight of those super jumbos other airlines are reportedly planning to do the same now the plane was once billed as a great way for carriers to dramatically increase passenger numbers and at the same time reduce costs but at almost half a billion dollars each while few companies are buying them. it's the largest passenger plane in the world the a three eighty is the pride and joy of the european aircraft group airbus but as orders for the a three eighty kept plummeting the group was forced to reduce annual production from thirty to just eight aircraft this year and those eight have yet to be delivered. quantas dropping the planes represents a four billion u.s. dollar loss for the european aircraft manufacturer and it's raised doubts about the future of the three d. itself the australian airline ordered the jets in two thousand and six but since then they've switched to lighter more fuel efficient passenger jets

a worldwide trend the a three eighty is too heavy and uses too much jet fuel which wouldn't be as much of a problem if fuel prices that gone down but instead they've almost doubled since twenty sixteen so it's not surprising that another major air bus customer is taking off to the dubai airline emirates allegedly wants to cancel its existing orders for fifty three units at least in part that could mean the end of the world's largest passenger aircraft. here in germany the country's anti trust watchdog is cracking down on facebook moving to restrict the social media giants ability to collect data here in the country authorities say it cannot gather information through third party sites without user consent it's more evidence that facebook's business model could be under threat. the focus was on the day shift facebook collects from third party websites examples include the like and share buttons under news articles

similar functions are enabled on it instagram and what's up platforms according to the ruling these data streams give facebook an overwhelming advantage in the digital advertising market is this officials argue requires users consent. is being used as a given is it was for fans in the whole conclusion is that facebook. on its platform. of facebook facebook can also continue to gather data on its other services. or instagram or on third party sites. they may in the future. only with the user's explicit consent. indy's a. very. british like in most countries facebook is the leading social media network in germany it has more than thirty million users it also owns the

second most popular social network instagram which has some seventeen million users that leaves the competition far behind. facebook said officials underestimated the level of competition it faced within the country it's vowed to appeal. it has a month to do so and fairly must offer remedies to the cartel office member fines the decision is the latest by european officials to challenge the market dominance of american technical terms and reorient dacer practices to favor consumers last year the e.u. interactive regulation to allow users to view and withdraw their data online and member states are still to facing a special tax for digital firms. well later this month north korean leader kim jong un and u.s. president donald trump will hold their second summit in vietnam now the choice of

the host nation is one that works for both leaders the united states and north korea both have relations with vietnam a country which itself was a communist pariah some years back much like north korea is now so is there a message here for north korea trump kicks things off force chairman kim and i will meet again on february twenty seventh and twenty eighth in vietnam. the time and place is set for a second can trump summit. last year's meeting in singapore success so what use vietnam for round two. in its recent history vietnam has had a lot in common with north korea it's also a one party communist state one that's been ruled with an eye on feast. its regime reinforced by propaganda and personality calls. and in the

past and seen open hostility to where some cultural influence it's been awesome lated and an international pariah. but since ninety nine hundred eighty six vietnam has taken a different path with reforms that have opened it up to foreign business. in a remarkable turnaround it's gone from basket case to one of asia's fastest growing economies could vietnam style change be a good fit for north korea. vietnam starting point before the reform is similar to north korea's now. you know there are many things that had to be changed fundamentally. when you switch from a centralized economy to a market economy the important thing is to have a broad and far vision and really and completely a. vietnam's reforms have seen its per capita income saw almost five fold but hanoi

hasn't traded prosperity for democracy he had the communist party remains firmly in power keeping a tight lid on free speech and political dissent. but the social transformation is there to see. the size of skate board is in front of linden statue in hanoi would have been unimaginable not long ago you. compare that to today's pyongyang with public life is carefully controlled and north korean leaders a still reveal it is dieties. vietnam has rebuilt with its former foes the united states perhaps a role model for north korea to also normalize a troubled relationship. well in the last hour the first trucks carrying humanitarian aid bound for but it's way low arrived in the colombian

border city of kuta officials there are awaiting instructions now on how to distribute the food and medicine in defiance of opposition leader one. president nicolas maduro his government has blocked the highway to stop aid shipments from entering the country so we're still a fluid situation we want to take the story now to cut to in colombia near the minutes where the border to talk to journalist brom skid even to you brah so talk to me a little bit about what is happening now and what's going to happen so you've got this convoy of trucks with aid they've arrived at the border and they're waiting for instructions right. there even if. it interests. you some of the journalists could make an extra. three days or eight but if i may go there bear in

mind this is only the first aired. over the next ace this first really. and what will happen to all of this humanitarian aid if it's not allowed to cross the border. one under. me you've been asking this for a few days about it because. you want to say. what is sure. i'll certainly be negotiated. this way and so know your residence so you want to you think the leadership. doesn't want you to enter into that or the other sectarian one of my own interim president and if you're. just. going to go into the order of a split so it is right the search. phrase a mission. trip you know within minutes of it i meet my.

danish which was. then she's on them for drugs so we're waiting for is to. see whether it. and brown who say they are there are two presidents there appears also to be two approaches and how to influence this situation we've got the us there with the convoy of humanitarian aid we've got to also european in latin american leaders meeting today in europe why in the capital montevideo they are calling for an international initiative for venezuela will they be able to help solve this crisis. i think it's it's there. you want it it's basically picture hogan and his fade out for the last weeks lost and goes more of us not so much that you're in crisis and it's in

the european union and the other part of us discussing issues. white lab and different groups where they want to be more open to certain. what i think you mean there in gerritsen you can see. as we're seeing the furnace especially the european and united nations making such a sort of it's not the oversight. journalist from the venezuelan border with colombia with the latest on that shipment of humanitarian aid thank you very much. well late last year ukraine's christian orthodox leaders created a new church independent of russia that's after they received the blessing of orthodox christianity as a spiritual head patriarch bartholomew based in istanbul where many people were glad to embrace the fully ukrainian charge but not all are ready to cut their three

hundred year old ties with the russian patriarch. praying in the cold. it's not their usual church but these mosco patriarchy supporters say they don't choice the decision by the leader of the world to docs christians in faraway istanbul to recognize the independent ukraine a church soon he was in this isolated village. within weeks supporters of the two rival confessions were locked in a standoff suddenly the village of burnet to head to greece by the city of the moscow patriarchy and father only of the ukrainian church supporters of the ukrainian church collected signatures they had to go to majority begin to congregations in favor of joining the new body and within a matter of days they had the keys to the church. her. father said he of the moscow patriarchy insists the whole procedure was raked the villages

he says were tricked into signing the petition but that was just the beginning. this is ripping the community apart people have stopped speaking to one another we even have a husband who's threatening to throw his wife out for her religious beliefs they called us anti christ used them as well about a fifth of the old congregation have decided to stick with by the city he and the moscow patriarchate they've made their way to this rundown cottage on the edge of the village for the first service and what they hope is just a temporary home for their parish feelings are running high. we had a funeral the other day the people. i was split into each side kept to itself so i could never has an agenda and i'd end up going to play in a shack. the other end of the village the new york prince of the church of st john are also preparing for their first service. inside then you present

father all ages needing praise and ukraine rather than old slave owning your cake church language used by the moscow patriarchate was. or it's a year for war he proudly shows the congregation a copy of the official charter issued by paycheck but union stumble recognizing the independence of ukraine your church it's something many here have been waiting for since ukraine going independent to me decades ago the symbol of the home of the most is all about the congregation they have decided which church they want to belong to the majority has made its choice i think the others will be back with those very soon. made the will has made by we want to talk to god in ukrainian not in any other language we want to ukrainian priest in ukraine in church the russians are sending tanks against us killing our children and grandchildren here

we don't want the russians here no way here at the bottom we have a ukrainian church a church that's truly independent of russia a country that's attacking us we're not praying for their soldiers anymore father said he refuses to accept that these changes are permanent as fighting to bring his parishioners back in from the cold. i hope the people will eventually understand what they've done repent and return to the fold of the true church. for the moment at least that seems unlikely what began as an argument about bricks and mortar now threatens to turn into a long lasting division in this community. well the berlin international film festival the berlin dollar kicked off today the opening theme was the kindness of strangers which premieres at this year's festival the stars of german and international cinema attended the opening the outgoing director the film festival director dieter caustic was right there in the middle.

where the jury for this year's festival appeared today for the first time to answer questions from the international press this year the jury president is the french star juliet but no she she was asked about the number of female directors in competition this year. well when i spoke with peter he said to me very happy that we have seven films of women directors this year and he said i didn't select them because they're women because they're great films so i think that's a good step forward. well she's the jury president now but she has been a movie star as well want to take a look back now at the career of juliet but no. very few people in the film world have built a body of work as dynamic and multifaceted as you idiot. the french actress has

been in over sixty films and right from the start has worked with some of the world's most visionary direct benaud she was already a star in france when her sensual performance in philip kaufman's one nine hundred eighty eight the parable lightness of being launched her international career. in one nine hundred ninety three she starred in the visceral haunting cult classic three commas blue. for the nine hundred ninety six passionate world war two epic the english patient she got an academy award and a bafta. in two thousand show colossal been seduced no less than the whole town with her chocolate. was that was. the actress says she only chooses films and roles that resonate deeply with her.

it's important for me to feel free and if i want to say no i sin or ever want to see as i say yes it has to be a very intuitive and hidden almost hidden place for me to say years to feel. like with twenty tends metaphysical labyrinth certified copy for which binoche won best actress at cannes. the multi award winner is a physically and shoot if performer who seeks to work in collaboration with directors on the artistic vision of their films in recent years she's done this repeatedly with clear denny and denise let the sun shine in a radiant been asked the question what does true love main. antony's side fire highlight has been getting freaky in the future as a mad scientist brimming with sensuality. with

a career that spans more than thirty five years juliette binoche was born humor and versatility see her continuing to define expectations. i've never heard her described as freaky in the future. for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company i'll be back in just a moment to take you through a little bit stick around for that.

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