this is g w news live from berlin the standoff over humanitarian aid for venezuela comes to a head trucks carrying vital supplies arrived at the border with colombia but the ailing regime in caracas is says it will not let the foreign aid enter the country we'll get the latest from the flashpoint in venezuela's political crisis also coming up the u.s. and france one berlin to abandon the pipeline supplying russian gas saying it could undermine security for western europe the german chancellor angela merkel says the criticism is unfounded plus the curtain goes up. berlin film festival the

stars turn out for the first film in competition morning share of the kindness of strangers our correspondents they have seen that film as well and they'll be here with their movie version. it's good to have you with the first trucks carrying humanitarian aid for venezuela have arrived in the colombian border city of. officials there are awaiting instructions on how to distribute the food and medicine to get its way those who are in desperate need of help now that's if they can get into the country in defiance of opposition leader one. president nicolas maduro his government has blocked the highway. to stop the shipments from entering the bennetts way.

let's pull in journalist brahmi because now he joins us from colombia near the border with an it's way low good evening to you brought so we hear the u.s. aid shipment has arrived what more do we know what's going to happen to first of all was going to happen to all of that aid well. obviously well anderson is without one of these days but it's not so certain. the first night troops arrived it's a one hour ago in. the roof at the national socialists was already waiting for the caravan to read its include the red book the city about nine or just about four months of humanitarian aid that's made and that is for the birds and i didn't birds the problem is defense related. to those plants to access these and the other way though was the opposition leader and trainer

president to be a position if it is. going to be sped up but we know that many trips. to the government it will go it's so what we're waiting for. it all of the basic forest. did it ever except when it goes oh us oh i agree with your specific not only if it is a lot easier but also all over that this is hard to go off troops at the border that might look there and we know we've got the united states on the one hand which is providing this aid convoy and we have european and latin american leaders on the other hand they came together in the euro gwion capital montevideo today and they are calling for an international initiative for venezuela what is that going to look like him will it be able to solve this crisis. i think people

love to discuss and want to be there but for most part local consensus as well and i don't know are going to let the third step they are what we face going to united states trying to split the british red army front offer to start a trust but they don't accept you weren't there and they were in the act or necessary for its medicines which are fairly excess up and it's really from it's own citizens on the other side are asked to choose whether they will be loyal to the guardians so it's our choice to make might cause that is the border area to rice. so them or their troops looking for more specific approach. which doesn't have armies to waste lives. or the journalist brahmi was from the business where the border with colombia with the latest tonight on that aid convoy from thank you. well here are some of the other

stories now that are making headlines around the world officials in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro's say heavy rain and high speed winds have killed at least five people and left a trail of destruction experts say a full month's worth of rain fell in just two hours the mayor has declared three days of mourning swedish police say a norwegian airplane belfer france with one hundred sixty nine passengers on board has returned to the airport in stockholm after receiving a bomb threat the plane was evacuated and is being searched by. experts members of the national swimming team were among the passengers. british prime minister to resign me and the european commission president john called you have pledged to continue talks over breaks it but you are once again refused to renegotiate the terms of the already agreed with raul deal which will oversee britain's divorce

from the european union breaks that is set to begin on march twenty ninth. norway has warned its students against studying in the u.k. due to the uncertainties surrounding brags that the education minister said those hoping to study abroad you should favor other countries due to potential problems with bureaucracy and exam result recognition every year thousands of norwegians head to u.k. universities. france has recalled its ambassador to italy in protest of a series of verbal attacks by the italian government french president emmanuel micron's summoned christiane must say back to paris for consultations relations between italy and france have grown increasingly tense and since mid two thousand and eighteen mostly because the disagreements over migration policy at a news conference today italy's interior minister month any outlined his country's grievances while also insisting that italy welcomes talks.

over the past two years of the french italian the french government bush thinks it's 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 also every day that he conducts inspections on trains carrying commuters from its data from its wasting hours and hours of working times if that continues italian police will be forced to do the same to trains entering italy from france. because italy's speaking there earlier today here in germany plans for a pipeline supplying russian gas have been thrown into developed by international opposition the u.s. ambassador to berlin has urged germany to ditch the nord stream to project and now france says that it could stop construction by subjecting the russian company building it to tougher european union rules critics say the pipeline which is due

to start pumping later this year will make germany dependent on mosque ale and that it will undermine european security that leaves a key part of germany's energy strategy for the future under threat. 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 regulation of the pipeline but transport gas from 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 assets at the heart of division within the e.u. is a plan to extend the blocks of 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 from the story to. brady at the big table and in brussels our very own barbara let me start with you last minute. that he supports. extending the control over the project i mean how much of a setback is this for. 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 had 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

to 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 along side angela merkel 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 the surprise to you to hear that about the munich security conference so what does this mean then 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 would he's urging germany to abandon nord stream the german chancellor angela merkel she has responded to that take a listen. 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. this that means that we don't want to make ourselves dependent on russia and that any 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 the project that we heard from merkel today is nothing new she's been defending this project for months now and so complaints even from the u.s. which isn't actually directly involved in this project i don't think they are going to go away overnight if anything since donald trump became that the u.s. 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 again maybe even from the e.u. 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 infested in it and there are also already being huge environmental impacts right brady here the big table with me. in brussels to both

of you thank you. well the berlin international film festival kicked off today with stars and starlets on the red carpet the opening film was the kindness of strangers which premieres at this year's barely known of the names a german international cinema bore out for the gol the opening of the outgoing festival director you see him right there are costs like he was right there in the middle of his last festival almost achieves gender parity with seven albums seventeen films in competition directed by women. of 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 julia. she was asked about the number of female directors in competition this year. well when i spoke with detached he said to me i'm very happy that we have seven films some

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. it was really have been speaking earlier today of the barely knowledge american runner michael ward had staked his claim as the best marathon runner in the world the forty four year old athlete dominated the world marathon challenge winning all seven marathons across seven days in seven continents while the last marathon was in miami where runners were able to dress lightly along with physical demands competitors dealt with huge climate shifts starting with minus thirty five degrees in antarctica then they went to australia south africa the united arab emirates spain chile and finally miami give them a drink britain's susanna gill broke the women's time i'm tired from just reading that while all right you're watching the w. news coming up next in the w. business the former king of the skies the airbus a three eighty might be one step

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