truth detectives starts feb fifteenth on t.w. play. this is you know we do is live from berlin children killed in their sleep in a tragic fire at a youth soccer dormitory and brazil the blaze tour through the youth training facility of brazil's biggest soccer clubs the flamingo in rio de janeiro killing at least ten people a local official so you players are those among the dead also coming up germany and france reach a compromise over a controversial council pipeline ers have tried to put the brakes on the link with

russia citing security fears plus european and latin american officials joined forces to call for a peaceful solution to the venezuelan crisis but will ask a german lawmaker what can europe do really to solve this power struggle and a german a film a system crash or take sixty two of the berlin film festival firestorm our verdict on the tale of a troubled girl's clash with german social services. great to have you along everyone we begin this broadcast with a devastating fire in brazil or ten people are believed to have died after a blaze tore through a soccer dormitory for young players at least three others were injured the fire broke out the. before dawn on friday at brazil's biggest soccer club the flamingo

in rio de janeiro at a training facility there teenagers from the flamingo youth team are mocking the victims who were sleeping in the dormitory at the time the expensive legal training center had opened just two months ago because of the fire is not yet known. all right let's get you more on this a developing story andrew downey is a sports sports journalist and author based and south paolo brazil and he joins me now on the phone what more have you learned. there we know there are changes but how do you kill we know there are who each one of the changes are young players of the club or young people or we have our share of the reports of at least another sorry players a moment there that we're still waiting to confirm now but it does seem certain that some of the there will be young players who we are seeing at the club and training with the club and andrew when you say young what age range are we talking

about. the role jimi jurors decision that were taken to hospital we want to ensure the wall between fourteen and fifteen so start to change abuse do we live here it's pretty common in brazil or close to one well being the light of one group in the house clearance jump clearance or controversy in the city there they are training would look to cloak over unity biggest players something that will be there for sure don't trial because the congregants are in the city people part of we because of their law competitions and lodging i don't very common for the players to be to be provoked by the club or the stadium used to so would you tell us a little bit andrew about this the training center what are facilities like there. well it's existed for quite a while they really help get you to refurbish plus you have the audience of you to silkies to it but it opens it will need in november it was about four point seven

billion pounds refurbishment c.r.v. the whole reach of facilities the squeegee the gyms you walk quietly for for training and for rehabilitation several to choose the house if you appear to be to have a stroll studio this is all going to two or three full years. but will come one to twenty four for the guar the club will be sold for your difference of monies to figure out what it was clear as was the need to do it it was sold to the officers last year for forty five million euros which treat that the disability was it took a call example of the getting the full year results because of who is using will facilitate. this of course begs the question why is there no smoke alarm or were the dormitories not we furbished. well we're told will be taken from the fire department of said we're still investigating this they don't have a specific cause yet one young player said that. she said that the fire sucked the

newsroom and it conditioned you that you said that it caught fire so why don't you run or want to see we have also read reports of over little want to brazil's biggest newspaper saying that the club did not have the correct current but for the force of the facility we're still eat chicken from ny we there's a lot if you didn't just those just don't know you're right and are down in sao paolo thank you so much for the update. and back here german chancellor angela merkel has confirmed reports that berlin has reached a compromise with paris over the north stream to pipeline france had raised objections about the pipeline which will supply russian gas directly to germany and threaten to use european union regulations to halt construction but merkel says that stumbling block has now been removed is the not the two of us as if we have

indeed reached an agreement regarding the gas pipeline regulations and we reached it because germany and france were together very closely and with the remaining e.u. presidency and the other member states of course. you know how often i meet president how often we hold talks we cooperate daily on all important european topics and even if the president said a few days ago that he wouldn't be going to munich that will be many other meetings between us where you will be able to see that the spirit of franco german friendship is very much alive obviously. that's got us some more background now with the brussels vera chief max hoffman max e.u. member states to reach that to compromise on north stream to germany must be breathing a sigh of relief probably yes because they managed to put this whole agreement on a solid footing because even if the controversy wasn't there in the last year north

stream two was never really on solid footing and there was always the danger that it might be scrapped or and culture obstacles that are unsurmountable and now the bastard has agreed to this new proposal actually almost unanimity this the with the exception of roumania so some even say this is a success for germany now germany sees north stream to gas pipeline as crucial for its energy security but why has it been so controversial in europe. because the fear of many countries especially in the east of the european union poland the baltic states is that russia will not only export gas but also influence that's part one also voiced by the way by the united states of america and of course if you look at the existing pipelines most of the russian gas comes through ukraine at the moment that brings money to ukraine and also some believe it keeps

russia from meddling even more in ukraine than it has before so they they they are fearing that this might change with the north stream to now this project has been underway for quite a while so why have matters come to a head now. it's been simmering for quite some time so that's not new but of course it didn't help that russia meddled in due crain it didn't help that the relations between russia and the european union are deteriorating so that stoped that fear that i was talking about earlier and on top of that it needed to be said to be decided on some point and this was one of the last possibilities before the european elections that take place at the end of may and so all these factors came together to force this decision now so the french and german sides found a compromise but what will this will this rather affect future bilateral relations . had yes a couple of hours ago most people would have probably said this is going to be

a very serious situation going forward because they just signed this new friendship treaty between france and germany but if you look at what happened now i mean the french foreign ministry insisted on thursday and that was the crucial part we've said all along we're still trying to figure out modifications to the text with our partners including germany that's exactly what they did so in the end there's a case to be bait that the french actually help the germans to put nordstrom to on a solid footing even if it makes things more complicated they still have to build the pipeline meaning that there needs to be a different provider of gas and the company that's running the actual infrastructure of the pipeline can't be the same one so far the plan was to have a gazprom is huge russian gas company for both so makes things more complicated but it still is viable nord stream two will most likely survive and that's the important part for the germans did have a use of brussels virtues max hofmann thank you for your reporting. and staying

with franco german never lation despite the compromise or the north stream pipeline question marks remain over how well you're of stein amodio are faring right now in a surprise row french president on my car has pulled out of a meeting with uncle america at the forthcoming munich security conference we asked the organizer welcome to share what he made of the notion even if president michel isn't going to speak himself in munich we will have plenty of other senior representatives of the french government in munich to explain french positions. there will be a huge american delegation and congressional delegation they will be half a dozen german ministers said red cetera so i think the purpose which i which is important to me the purpose to demonstrate in munich that the european union is alive and kicking that purpose can still be maintained not.

in times where it may appear that the european project is faltering it should have made a strong plea for european unity for me it's very important that we demonstrate is specially to the anglo-saxon community that. the impression that may be created elsewhere that because of breck's it the european integration project is about to crumble that that's wrong actually popular support for the european union in most countries is up not down. and beyond europe with the recent standoff between the us and russia over the i n f missile treaty it should have warned of a new politics of rivalry. we have enough in common between even russia and the united states to try to work together to put cooperation to put integration. above the kind

of rivalry which seems to be the motto of twenty nine hundred and we will need to talk about that next week and in munich we'll have some pretty tough hard talk i hope in order to clarify what the priorities of responsible leadership need to be in twenty nineteen are as we have to speed now some of the other stories making news around the world. amazon boss jeff bezos the richest man in the world has accused the publisher of an american tabloid newspaper of blackmail realizes that the national enquirer threatened to publish intimate photos of him and his lover if he did not do as it wished and a long running clip but the gates into the crisis stricken country have been sealed on the other side venezuela's military still largely loyal to president maduro has been ordered to prevent any shipments crossing the border next to the soldiers

anxious citizens wait and hope for food and medical supplies to be let through yet the point that sooner or later that bachus going to open and the humanitarian aid will rife the people off in this way let tired of being hungry i'm a muslim my mother died nearly two weeks ago the doctors were unable to operate on her we had to find all of the medical supplies and equipment ourselves even a burial it's impossible there's not enough money to bury the dead and that i let hundreds of kilometers away in the capital caracas president maduro denies there are any humanitarian problems at all going even further he said the american aid shipments were a ploy for an invasion. because of our immense oil resources many rules and other great wealth the questions are pushing an international coalition led by the imperialist government of the united states that

sold that they can militarily it's hot in venezuela under the false excuse of a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. but international pressure is mounting a meeting in europe why ministers from more than a dozen european and latin american countries are calling on the do to hold free presidential elections and allow humanitarian aid into venezuela. this is what the aide looks like on the. colombian side of the border bridge these venezuelan refugees are relying on a community kitchen to get them through the day. i'd like to welcome now mr neil's on he is germany's foreign minister states sir very warm welcome and thank you for taking our time of your busy schedule to be with her with us here in person now there is melting global pressure on mr. to step down germany's mong that some of the leading nations in the world to call for him to leave basically and have put

their weight behind the opposition leader one though why it seems like such a big gamble by dos six months ago nobody knew his name he's not democratically elected should you first look underneath the hood or look mr democratically elected and the things that is the point to you he represents the democratically elected national assembly and that election to that body has been democratically and has been transparent and fair and who has been taking place long before one minister mr maduro decided to virtually take all the powers screwballs the polls from that body and implemented own body which was not democratically elected and then initiate a presidential elections which were not under international observation which are quite frankly oil letting all standards of international law and electoral law so we are recognizing the choice of the venezuelan people and the very constitution of

the gifts that body the responsibility in case that the president is not longer able or justifiably in the in his office to assume the responsibility so i think what is needed right now is a real and concrete step in order to make sure that this country goes back to normal the situation which is devastating in terms of the humanitarian situation is going to. be addressed and that we have free and fair presidential election and that is something that mr maduro must accept and i think that is really the point you let's talk about this meeting and that took place in in europe where it was a major meeting of this so-called international contact group germany was one of them if i understand correctly basically testing the waters for a democratic transition in venezuela but the u.s. interesting lee was not part of this contact group so i'm just wondering how effective can this group be but look we have we are trying to make

a contribution as european countries and we are looking at when israel has a very important player in the region it's a rich country it's a big country and has an impact on regional stability and we endure up experience the political impact of taking more than men hundreds of thousands of refugees also in this country and missed them a duras way to run bankrupt the country has produced more than three million refugees so we made it clear that we are ready to support the democratically elected national assembly and that we are ready to support the people of an israel or by delivering humanitarian aid and we want to achieve this by peaceful means so there's enough on the table also to mr mudd duren tests his team to talk with about some concrete steps to that necessary presidential election and of course it's not only the united states of america i think this is very important to make this point

the over vermin majority of let in american states limit group and other countries in the region are calling on mr moderate to agree to this path and we as european countries also the german government firmly stands behind mr white though the democratic represented will of the venezuelan people and we are ready to work with the international community and especially the latin american countries let's not let's talk now about. roughly forty seconds left let's talk about the power while the power struggle of doing claims on the presidency of venezuela continues to the people of venezuela are suffering i'm wondering whether the only the only factor that can help get madeira to leave office are the venezuelan people themselves well i agree and as i think if we look at suffering families kids especially affected the first thing and that's what we're trying to do and to work with the venezuelan

people is to make sure that humanitarian aid reaches the people that are most affected and the political gambling of mr mo do a blocking z. axis rolls for example just shows the character of this regime this is simply unacceptable and they're really hope and i want to use that opportunity to appeal to mr madeira and to us and to rush to at least opens a country for humanitarian help and texas i think that is what we need desperately is needed now and germany's foreign minister of state thank you and. next up the body recovered from the wreckage of a plane in the english channel has been confirmed as that a footballer and miano solemn the twenty eight year old arjun time was on his way to wales to sign for cardiff city when contact was lost with his flight now his family's worst fears have been confirmed. after nearly three weeks of pain and

uncertainty the search for a million new salon is finally over british police identified the body recovered from the wreckage of a plane off the islands of jhansi as allows the twenty eight year old argentine had been missing since january twenty first when his plane disappeared in route from france to wales shortly after he had left his father a voice message saying he was so scared that they were about to crash the plane now confirmed to be that of salon pilot david it but soon was discovered in the english channel earlier in the week had been to his body is yet to be found. so i was headed to wales to join new club cardiff city after they broke their club record signing him from both called to pay tribute to the striker and argentina's president. offered his condolences via twitter to slots family after the confirmation but discovery provides closure for family who say they can now more but they must now wait until an interim police report scheduled for february twenty first for answers on why the crash occurred. now to one of our favorite

parts of the program talking movies and with good reason the burly not liberal and international film festival has kicked off four hundred movies are currently being screened over the next ten days and our reporters are down at the red carpet for you charlie phil and dave it a levitt's hi guys what's been happening today. yes well this is day two legendary film festival and things really are starting to get exciting last night we had the world premiere of the opening film of the entire festival and now the films are coming they can follow there are seventeen in total that are competing we've seen two of them today and we just had the well crimea of one of those films on the red carpet behind us the stars took to the cockpit among you know use of fans here it was a german film so this really was a film that a lot of people turned out for to check out yeah the pressure actually today is

really on because last night's opening film completely flogged it was billed as a modern day fairy tale it was a story of people on hard times who come together through twists of fate in new york city to help each other out the kindness of strangers the title and that's what it's about but a lot of people are saying why was this film made that it wasn't made well so the pressure's on today and and it looks like you know we've got some serious european drama it may be we may be able to turn this thing around yeah that really was panned by the critics let's say hopefully something will happen better than oh they definite has a lot to prove today once let's talk about the film a system crash what's that about. that's right we just saw the premiere of this german film system crasher it's about an emotionally disturbed and very violent a nine year old girl who basically keeps getting shipped from foster home to foster

home and it's also about stealing the social workers who try to rescue her and this is quite an emotional movie i have to say i was on the edge of my seat very often and even choking back tears i thought that the relationships in this movie were so real it really was gripping david's right it was something that you cannot turn away from it as she and we ended up having a little bit of debate to the film is just about some of the issues raised about the question of its children and the welfare state here in germany and just what you do in a situation that seems hopeless it was it was really a fantastic film it was markedly different to the film that we saw yesterday and an amazing performance by the way by how they're not saying the girl who plays benny the nine year old who's at the center of this film and this is the very first feature film by director nor i think you know the billion dollar brings together the best of european hollywood cinema cinema from all around the world and even some newcomers and here's a great example of that right is west talking

a little bit about this directive first of all to say the balun island really is trying to focus on divesting gender diversity as part of that so seven is the seventeen films in competition by female directors and nor think she is one of them and it was an extraordinary feat that she achieved to full her first feature film and it was no easy feat from what we've heard we know that she visited a lot of these to do research we know that it took her a long time to shoot this film because she was dealing with a lot of young children so it really is extraordinary what she must produce for a woman who's in him but that's all right guys have got forty seconds left i understand you had a sneak peek of the big film premiering later today by the grace of god what's that about. yeah another dramatic topic later this time about child abuse in the catholic church by priests now i do quickly want to say that there are currently legal cases going on in relation to this story actually in front so it's

quite a tricky film to show this is raise a lot of legal problems and the latest director for us was on the francis one of france's talk directors there's going to be a lot of buzz around that film and on the red carpet behind us for the world premiere of the hard charlotte charleston phil and david leavitt's at the red carpet for us guys catch up with you later. they're washing you don't use coming up like cindy w. asia in a break with tradition the sister of the king of thailand makes a move to join type politics how will voters in thailand react to a world candidate for prime minister and issues have become one of the leaders of china's me to movement our correspondent meets the woman who is taking on the country's establishment and her fight against sexual harassment. those stories coming right out with their ashburner jay and i'll see you again at the top of the hour.

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