thank you larry. this is d.w. do is live from. exclusive interview. is the government of a silent genocide. hundreds of thousands could die if president. into the country on the program. germany's labor gap

a new study shows the country needs a quarter of a million. worse because every year to offset aging population. i'm very very. i'm david levy it's a standing by with details of what's happening down. to the world premiere of an italian film about teenagers taking over the more coming up. i'm for the welcome to the program. but as well as opposition leader and self proclaimed interim president has accused the government of nicolas maduro of failing to protect the venezuelan people's right to life he told the w.c. it amounts to a silent genocide the country is suffering from shortages of medicine and basic

supplies more than one hundred tons of u.s. aid is way to neighboring colombia but president dora has ordered the military to block the supplies from entering the country describing the aid as a trojan horse and part of a u.s. plot to overthrow his government more than fifty countries have now recognize one guide to find its way in this interim president he has repeatedly called on the military to switch sides and did so again speaking to w.'s. we will always appeal to the conscience of the armed forces and ask that they pick the constitutional side we have been very clear with the armed forces that they have to allow humanitarian aid to enter and whoever blocks it will be tried for human rights violations what's happening in venezuela could be considered a silent genocide when you have hundreds of thousands who've died because of a shortage of food and medicine and this regime hasn't protected people's right to life this regime is responsible for direct deaths like in the case of the special forces that killed more than seventy people in a week for protesting and for indirect efforts because they're not doing anything

to solve the food and medicine crisis interview conducted by us who joins us from caracas welcome osca what was your impression is confident that he can ultimately win this power struggle. yes definitely yeah actually one of the things he said was that time is playing against the government they're very confidence they said that this is a point of no return for the opposition and the struggle that's been building up for twenty years so they are very confident that there is a welcome change and they swear that they don't know when exactly but they say that time is actually playing against the girl's mother was at this point. and those trucks of a gathering at the border with colombia what is the situation that they are now well i asked him and there was a lot of tension between the border not only between venezuela and columbia but

also in brazil because the states that the tension is within the armed forces because he says the armed forces is there is pressure by the government to obey a command and whatever doesn't obey they will go into the prisons and will be tortured which is a lot of what we've seen with people denouncing that this is happening with they know the military ranks there's a lot of them that have been put in prison for suspicion of uprising and they're being tortured so that's what we can tell from the tension in the border. germany is one of the countries that has acknowledged mr quite as interim that head of state german president front fell to start my as a neighboring colombia today yes some of what he's been saying that it. is not he haven't got three years of autocracy and mismanagement under the venezuela is on the edge of the of beds been caught on the brink of bankruptcy. the situation

is catastrophic for the population. and eight is not allowed in again by the man drew government doing the things none the less and . that's why we have to hope that presidential elections will soon be held in venezuela and it's. also shankar in caracas very german president hopes that presidential elections are going to be held soon i'm guessing nicolas maduro holds a comes review yes of course that is not in the plans of your last minute up to hold elections actually he's up to it he's said that he would hold elections but for the parliament which is the only democratically elected or recognized democratically elected institution of menace well of all these countries so there aren't any elections in the near side for us know who they are as of yet

but that's what the opposition is striving to do that's one way don't have said he's only an interim president and his role is to enact the constitution to allow. elections in thirty days but he can't do that unless mother or steps down so it's very it's a very difficult situation because there is a power struggle a very strong power struggle between the opposition and what remains of the support they need or as my who're passed within the institutions. and caracas thank you. the trial of twelve cats and separatist leaders has begun in the spanish capital the defendants have been charged over their roles in the twenty seventeen independence referendum it was ruled illegal by spain supreme court some face decades in prison if found guilty of rebellion supporters and opponents of cutter than independence gathered outside the court in madrid at the start of this highly

charged trial which is expected to last three months one of those not standing trial today is former counsel on the president colors proved a man who fled the region after leading the independence vote speaking today in berlin he said spanish democracy was on trial the trial. that started in madrid this morning is a test for the whole judiciary spanish system therefore is a stress test for the spanish democracy because the judiciary system is one of the bases. of the rule of law in our democracies. so for that all democracies around the world must be inspired by the struggle for democracy. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a car bomb has exploded at a border checkpoint in northern syria near the border with turkey the explosion was

captured on c.c.t.v. footage at least seven people were injured no deaths were reported there's been no claim of responsibility. at least seventeen people have died in a fire at a hotel in the indian capital delhi most were sleeping when the blaze broke out early on tuesday morning rescuers managed to save thirty five but disaster has raised questions about poor safety standards and a lack of government regulation. prince prime minister has asked parliament for more time for talks with the european union to really go say to her friends at the three separate told lawmakers she can still reach a deal only from the block that they could support this spike their previous overwhelming rejection of the current deal. to leave the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march. the economists say here in germany have long warned of a crisis in the labor market because as well as being home to the world's fourth largest economy it's also home to the world's second oldest population that's after japan

in case you're wondering now a new study has revealed just how many young immigrant workers are needed each year to keep the economy going. i'm still half is still a month is a project manager for machine counter. he's palestinian and has been in germany for ten years last year after finishing college in berlin he started working for the northern german company a stroke of luck forever which like many companies has been anxious to attract qualified workers next ya got me going the coming years large numbers of qualified workers will be retiring that means we expect increased shortages of. these workers shall form the end passive for germany's economy and social system it's not just trades people and caregivers who will be needed but also highly skilled workers according to the study two hundred sixty thousand more qualified workers will be needed each year only one hundred fourteen thousand immigrants could come from the e.u.

since all european countries are struggling with low birth rates so an additional one hundred forty six thousand immigrants would need to come from outside the e.u. . that the end of december the german government passed a skilled labor immigration law following thirty years of debate but it has yet to come into effect the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. continues to pour all over the details just how difficult the issue of migration is for germany's conservatives became clear last weekend when the party discussed chancellor angela merkel's refugee policy. big in the from when it comes to granting residency rights to migrants who come here to work or study course it's will especially have to make the condition such that we do not increase attractiveness along the lines of somehow gets in with asylum then everything else will work out this process must not serve as a president. while german businesses are calling for an immigration law to take effect as soon as possible the conservatives view the draft skilled labor

immigration law as still in need of rigorous debate that means that some skilled laborers and some companies will have to wait even longer until they can finally get to work. as. a political correspondent a thomas spot of welcome thomas why is this so difficult for german politicians was it taken certainly is to debate a migration but they still can't agree on. well phil many people would think that migration is only a controversial topic in germany for the last few years in particular after the refugee crisis but as you yourself correctly mentioned this has been a very controversial issue for a much longer period and has to do with some very concrete elements for example the fact that there's an aging population in germany the fact that there's a low birth rate at least compared to other countries the fact that there are fewer migrants coming from within the european union because situations in other european union countries are increasing so there are fewer incentives for them to come to

germany all those are issues that are controversial here in the country that have been debated for a very long time germany has debated whether in fact it is or it isn't an immigration country as such and that's why at the end of last year politicians in the cabinet from the ruling parties these cited on draft law again as we saw in our report a draft law that is still very much controversial that has to be debated in the parliament. i'm still not quite clear the we have germany has a specific problem it doesn't have enough workers it can get workers from overseas it can get them from within germany and the e.u. so certainly years seems like a lot of time to debate an issue that everyone agrees is a problem that's absolutely true what you mention it is a very long time and again that has to do with elements within the party structure in germany that whether one party believes or doesn't believe that germany is per se an immigration country or whether they believe that certain types of immigrants

should come to the country or shouldn't come to the country and in particular we're talking here about this draft law is for skilled immigrants so you could ask yourself well if there were so many migrants who came to the country in recent years why do it why don't they fill that gap well because what germany is looking towards now is precisely a scaled immigration law that was going to be debated in parliament in the next few months so when this debate has happened in the next few months and presuming very arrive at a conclusion what are we likely to be looking at in terms of this new law or if they do passed out of law it is likely that they will pass it in this first semester they would come into force at the beginning of next year that would reduce some bureaucratic hurdles for migrants trying to come to germany in particular skilled migrants for certain areas within the german economy that are particularly key for this that desperately need migrants we saw some of those areas in our report those are all aspects that are still being discussed again it was passed by the german cabinet in december last year it will be debated in the german

parliament in march and probably will be decided on at the end of may it will come into effect if it all goes according to plan at the beginning of twenty twenty thomas thank you for that i was struck. russian lawmakers have today given initial approval to controversial draft legislation that could see moscow isolate itself from the global internet the legislation passed the first of three readings today and russia's parliament the duma the measure as we see the country temporarily cut off traffic from service abroad in an early step towards creating its own sovereign internet supporters say moscow needs to beef up its cyber security defenses but critics say the move is more aimed towards internet censorship. but i mean let's go to moscow then find out more about what is being proposed at until today is that well so why is russia doing this well on the one hand russian lawmakers here say they need to as you put it the

fight their own cyber security see there's a lot of concern here at least as then simply that most of the infrastructure that the internet in general uses is based in the united states was not controlled by the united states is still based in u.s. territory and the russian government says that if there were ever to be an open conflict between the u.s. and russia that they could potentially cut off russia from the wider in that are brought in of course a country like russia is very dependent upon services which can only take place online think bangs hospitals e-mail things like that and if the internet were to be cut off for them that would cause chaos throughout the country and the actual measure we're talking about here would see the the russian government creating its own domain registry system that's kind of a subsystem and most of the web addresses that we use today are actually based on now by creating that owns their own domain registry system that would allow moscow to centrally control the information and in the call in the event that the u.s. were to actually cut them off or any other country would cut them off from the wider in that they could still survive in their own little bubble based here in

moscow so would a russian bubble as you're put it would look so out of it i'm looking like i'm thinking about something like that the great firewall of china is not the sort of thing we're talking about. well i mean on the one hand yes and on the other hand no i mean for your basic users it wouldn't look any different as we're talking about a subsystem as opposed to you know a completely radically different internet so you know if you're to log on to your e-mail client it would still be the exact same e-mail website no g. mail would look like g. mail what we're really talking about is a different layer of control and that's really what we're getting into now with some of the privacy concerns now some people are accusing of the russian government of attempting to gain more concrete control of the information that's actually being exchanged online like i said by creating this own demain registry system they would be able to then control and keep everything here and russia in the last several years we've seen attempts by moscow to actually more directly control the information that russian citizens are exchanging i mean the most prominent example is the blocking of telegram last summer in a telegram is a very very popular internet messaging service for cell phones and it's also very

popular among opposition especially young opposition members who use it to exchange and organize for meetings well russia tempers a blockage a stent simply under the the pretense is that it allows users to communicate in an encrypted fashion which can also be used for terrorism and really a lot of people said that was an attempt to block the opposition out of public discourse now that when that backfired massively when wescott in the water blocked fifteen million ip addresses that were associated with it it also blocked a lot of internet subsystems specifically amazon cloud services which many of those critical infrastructure that i talked about like like bank and um hospitals used to communicate that resulted in telegram not actually being blocked but a lot of services going down here in russia is that really raises the question if this law is actually feasible. and muska thank you. thank you now the palestinian territory of gaza has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world more than seventy percent of young people are without work the

doubler's tanya kraemer has been talking to young gazans determined to make a living. it might not be his dream job but it's better than having no work at all. helps out in his uncle's carpentry shop having a job in gaza is precious for a young person like him. than what the only economic situation today is tough but if you lose your job you won't find an alternative but i don't want to give up whole imo who. the twenty nine year old used to work for an ngo but lost his job recently with ethan unemployment at seventy percent the last says the situation for the young is desperate for them if the situation doesn't get better there won't be any future for young people in gaza and all of them will try to live out of a. tight travel restrictions mean many of his generation have never been outside gaza. israel and egypt have sealed off the hamas controlled territory for more than

twelve years. those restrictions have led harsh to try to build a future in the virtual world. here the borders which have been closed for half her life don't matter she's trying to establish herself in online marketing. when at seventy some young people give up after graduation they just hang their certificate on the wall others are fused to accept this reality and keep trying to spite all the difficult circumstances we're now trying to invest in digital media a lot robert says she won't give up despite her home being a place where conflict can erupt at any time that in libya they say if you lose hope you lose life and ghassan no matter how hard life is the only thing we have is hope. for most young people in gaza crossing borders is not an option online or in real life hope may well remain the only thing they have to cling to

for a long time to come. a refugee football or hockey and be back with his family in australia after being detained in thailand for more than two months he'd been facing extradition to his native bahrain under a long prison sentence and what human rights groups say was a trumped up charge arriving at melbourne airport he received a hero's welcome. asked how he is back on australian soil after more than two months spent as a prisoner in thailand he was finally permitted to return to his adopted home of no this. is my identity this didn't he didn't fit me or. my good but it is. i don't think i'll arrive he was drunk said refugee status in australia after fleeing his native bahrain back in two thousand and fourteen last year while in bangkok on his honeymoon he was arrested on an interpol warrant which was later rescinded on legal grounds because of his refugee status he'd been

convicted in absentia in bahrain of offenses related to the twenty eleven arab spring protests and sentenced to ten years in prison but after a campaign of pressure on the bahraini anti-government the extradition request was rescinded and thailand freed him his case though is not the only one that human rights lawyers are pursuing with regards to the gulf kingdom. today a testament to everyone if it gets really one tonight that there are not that much grainy i'm here to remain in detention today in bahrain and we have to maintain the fight and we have to make sure that i'm hacking is not the only one that gets to go home to his family for a ride be at least the ordeal is over he's back in his adopted home reunited with his family at last. the sixty ninth birthday and national film festival has reached its half way point don't lose i mean see if i'm

david levitz on the red carpet in downtown and welcome both what's going on that. well the red carpet is heating up for the premiere of puranas by italian director claudio jovan izzie it's his third feature film he's seen as an upcoming filmmaker and it's really an honor for him to be out here in competition at the been another that's for anyone who's been living under a rock for the last days there are seventeen films competing for the top prizes the golden and silver bears it's day six the competition is heating up but anything could still happen fell. let's talk about this film. that's right puranas is it's a film that takes us into the heart of naples just we see this hot city in italy we meet young children teenagers thirteen fourteen fifteen who get involved in the world of organized crime we meet nicola who's fifteen years old

a brilliant kid in another situation another conditions he would be set to go to university make a career for himself but here in naples living in poverty the only way for him to get up and out of this situation is through the mafia and with his intelligence he quickly rises to the top yeah and he who does know by the way the kids in this movie many of them are not professional actors or rather they were before this movie i'm sure a lot of them will be discovered and go on to other things they actually are just in four thousand politan children to play these parts and you can really tell these kids really look and feel the part and speaking of kids one thing the really struck me about this is that nico of that main character he really straddles the divide between childhood and manhood on the one hand he's this hardened criminal who can kill. dealer basically shoots him point blank and on the other hand he's still a kid he still fights with his little brother over who gets to eat the snacks with their mom bought at the grocery store another director said that he didn't want to

just make a movie about the mafia he wanted to make a movie about the emotional lives of children and one technique that he used to achieve that was to use a shorter camera and always keeping the camera on the i level of the teenagers so we see the world from their perspective so have you seen anything at the looks like it might take one of the top prizes. yes feel like i said it's day six of ten but there are there are a few films that have really caught our eye one is system crasher this is by north i think she had a german director her debut i'm in a really strong one it's about a violent emotionally disturbed nine year old girl who gets shipped from foster home to foster home it's about the social workers who try to rescue her and this is such a strong debut i think that might grab the jury's attention another good film in my personal favorite is out stealing horses by a norwegian director hans-peter mole and a decorated director of veteran starring sterling scars record it's everything you

could want in a norwegian film lots of snow lots of silence falls a story of an older man who goes out into the norwegian woods into a cabin trying to escape his past seeking silence and solitude but he realized pretty quickly that he can't do that his past comes back to repeatedly in nightmares also in coincidental encounters and we keep revisiting we're all graced with images from his past a very troublesome summer that he spent with his dad very traumatic experience i would highly recommend this film i think it's a strong contender and i would be happy if it was i would too i mean i really like i know one other film to watch out for is by the grace of god by top french director false was on this is a film that's requests from the headlines it's about sexual abuse within the church and it's actually about a current case that is going to trial in france which is the reason that it might

not even get released in france of course the badly knob of the berlin international film festival always talk of always pushing me on and don't forget the slogan for this year is the personal is political thing really inviting controversy. i'm an essay for david. banner at the. start your mind about story at this position has accused the. government of a lot of what we call the silent genocide to unfold speaking to g w one quite upset hundreds of thousands of people at risk of dying as president of the door of refuses to allow humanitarian aid into. coming up next to you news offered nigerian president mohammad you bihari us makes us supporting whistleblowers a priority but what is the reality you make one paid the price for lifting the lid on corruption. and making waves in south africa me check ahead

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