d.w. news live from berlin campaigning ramps up ahead of nigeria's election tens of thousands rally in support of president obama to bahrain but has he done enough to win another four years in power our correspondent has the latest also coming up. to us says it's confident real progress can be made with north korea as president donald trump prepares for a second meeting with kim jump to the physics the country will become

a great economic powerhouse. enough for a hollywood actor liam neeson was accused of racist comments fallout from the scandal reaches a burly nala and we'll be live with the latest from the red carpet. on a full frolic welcome to the program nigerian president who will hari has addressed tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in lagos with one weeks ago until the country's elections he's hoping he can secure a second term in power but he's facing stiff opposition. as africa's most populous nation prepares to go to the polls president mohamed bihari is pulling out all the stops. he's ruling all progressives congress party so to

govern i supported a mass rally in lycos that year its largest city an economic powerhouse but the has work to do to convince a jury that he deserves another four years in power. many feel that the president has not done enough to fight corruption cover boko haram insurgency and revive economic growth is going to station by. the young that's going to be sufficient bad yet to corruption team to me i thought it would take you know. so so what i was talking about so easy and telephones and to promise and then to get this government will come in it made a lot of promises on people who got to improve with this new government coming in. after us on time people got disappointed even my british friends i got this opportunity government i so much believed in the government when it was coming in with the promises they made but i no did i was appointed just like any good idea.

the opposition it's also shouting foul play the people's democratic party and about how his main competitor. was prevented from holding its own mass rally in the cops on saturday that plagues the a.p.c. . a record eighty four million people have registered to vote next saturday they would like to offer change or get another chance. to w.'s africa correspondent. is in lagos he sent us this round of today's rally. president mohamed to address his supporters for exactly three minutes his key message vote me in once again for another four years so i can fulfill the promises that i made already during the last elections four years ago and the three key promises he made was tackling corruption tackling the insecurity situation wide parts of the country and create employment but the problem is many league oceans and people in nigeria have the

feeling that apart from the fight against corruption you hardly made any progress the security situation is still a big problem and huge parts of the country and unemployment is actually rising this is why most people believe it's going to be a neck and neck race between president obama and his main contend. during the elections on saturday. a u.s. envoy for north korea has expressed confidence real progress can be made at a summit later this month between donald trump and kim junk but special envoy stephen begun also cautioned there was still work to be done ahead of the talks trumper said the second meeting between the two leaders will be held in the vietnamese capital and. it's the seventy first anniversary of the korean people zomi and something to celebrate for north korea's leader kim jong il and while the u.s. was buzzing with anticipation about the forthcoming summit he was saying nothing.

to do. in washington president trump was convinced the great times lay ahead for north korea if the summit is a success it will become a great economic powerhouse he tweeted it will become a different kind of rocket an economic one. trump believes there are grounds for optimism returning from pyongyang is envoy doing the groundwork for the summit met south korea's foreign minister and said talks with the north had been productive but he added a note of caution president is very much looking forward to taking the next steps and we have some hard work to do with the d.p. r. k. between now and then and i'm confident that if both sides stay committed we can make real progress or is. he going to stall to have discussed specific it is all missteps that north korea could promise of the vietnam summit and what corresponding measures the united states would be willing to take that would be in advance of the first summit where kim jong un pledged to work towards the complete

denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula but did not provide a clear timetable. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. hundreds of mourners marched through the streets of the gaza strip on saturday carrying the body of the lobby a fourteen year old boy was killed by israeli troops on friday protests along the perimeter fence so obvious mother wailed as mourners brought his body on a stretcher for a final farewell at their home in a refugee camp. at least one person is severely injured after clashes broke out between police and yellow bus protesters in paris a witness told the a.f.p. news agency that a man lost his hand after police use a stun grenade to disperse protesters as the thirteenth consecutive weekend of kilobytes demonstrations. relatives of the ten boys killed in a fire of brazil's flamengo football club's training center have arrived in rio de

janeiro they're receiving support from psychologists and club members all victims of friday's fire were between fourteen and seventeen years old. in england's premier league cardiff city have led tributes to their player. whose death in a plane crash was confirmed on thursday a minute's silence was held before their match with southampton and players across the country wore black armbands as a mark of respect salo was travelling from norm's to his new club cardiff when the light aircraft disappeared from radar over the english channel last month the pilot david if it's not remains missing here in germany match day twenty one of the bundesliga is underway let's take a look at all of the results so far. leaders dortmund threw away a three goal lead at home to hoffenheim european hopefuls like they and frankfurt

played out a goalless draw and over climbed off the bottom by beating fellow strugglers nuremberg. lost at home for the first time in the season seiberg came from behind three times to draw with wolves berg in the friday game live a close and thrashed mind scoring four goals in a blistering first half. when dell started the route after just five minutes stopping home and easy gold mines dressed in a festive carnival jersey drew level four minutes later proved robin wise on take a look at that goal. but i haven't and you only on one could leave a closing three one up before. he got to fourth before halftime bunt got a second goal in the sixty fourth minute to seal

a five one away with. elsewhere in the bundesliga byron munich are currently in action against and there are two games on sunday including to saddam's bottom of the table clash with stuttgart. french artist and writer told me has died in ireland at the age of eighty seven was known for children's books such as the three robbers and also illustrations for grownups he was also a lifelong activists protesting against racial segregation the vietnam war and the election of u.s. president. born in strasbourg had lived in ireland for over forty years as you know. time to talk movies as day three of the berlin wall of the berlin film festival and today the controversy surrounding hollywood star liam neeson took center stage a few days ago in an interview promoting his new revenge thriller cold pursuit liam

neeson confessed that he once set out to kill a black man after a friend told him she was raped and said her attacker was black nissan's remarks triggered the widespread condemnation with many calling the actor racist today a burly nala press event cold pursuit director hans fish a mole and an actor stellan stars guard came to me since defense take a listen he's a very honest and he's a very decent. grounded man. he's not a racist. i think most people more people should read the articles. or buttered over people under their words instead of listening to all of the twitter routes around that to find it frightening to live in a world where you can get punished for what you think but most of all you get punished for what people think you think. so let me take you to burley not as red

carpet and our reporter onion essay i mean and how big a deal is the liam neeson controversy at berlin ali. well as you heard in the soundbite he not only defended liam neeson he also defended he defended what liam neeson said it's certainly not going to bury the controversy not here in berlin not in the u.s. where the premier of the film called pursuit was actually cancelled this week. i think the european audience might accept that you can separate an artist in his work especially if we're talking about the director is not in this film that's opening here. stealing horses but at the same time the slogan of his film festival is the personal is political so this is not a place to get away from controversy. director hans paid him on even more land to promote another film as you said out stealing horses can you tell us about that one

. well if he does want to get away from a controversy perhaps this film will be a distraction it's a sweeping film shows the beauty of norway it's everything you could want to norwegian film lots of snow lots of silence you have the deep voice of a narrator taking you from the beginning to the end it's a film that follows an older man that goes out into the countryside to get away from his past but he quickly finds out that it's coming back to him and dreams million coincidences he reflects on his relationship with his father it's very much a father son film and once again it's it shows a lot of beautiful scenes very beautifully filmed. and it could be a big film this year at the bed and. another big film everybody is talking about at least here and germany is the return of cane with the golden glove what did you think about this one. well i can. i give you my personal opinion

until it premieres tonight but i can say this is an objective we discussed in film this is about the repugnance of humanity it follows a serial killer who blends in with a crowd of downer now in germany after the war in the seventy's when the rest of germany is experiencing an economic miracle and these people slip through the cracks there's prostitutes everybody in the film almost is an alcoholic he chews women and it somehow is unknown to most people because of the filthiness of the mill you that he lives in the conditions that they're living in it goes unnoticed except for the smell. now yeah this is another great film from. delhi is a man as the ads really knows red carpet thank you. federer in areas in the u.s. town of kalispell have saved a cat frozen stiff on

a snow bank fluffy the cat was delivered to the animal clinic unconscious with clumps of snow and ice sticking to its for the cat was so cold that staff could not measure its body temperature but fluffy was revived with generous towel rubbing cage warmers and intravenous fluids and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. and elaine goss tens of thousands of people have rallied in support of president mohamed to hari ahead of next week's elections that's the opposition has accused the government of stifling their supporters. don't forget you can always get the w. news on the go just download our out from google play or from the app store that will give you access to the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the app to send us your photos and videos. coming up next pope order we need the german police officers

tackling illegal car racing there's more news at the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the latest news on our web site that's t w dot com thanks for watching. it's time for berlin sixty nine film festival. we give you the logo and all the stars. and. twenty nineteen every day on the.