crimes only increase in germany new statistics show hate crimes against jews of their hives for a decade sparking a mob amongst the country's jewish community is also on the program. government in crisis as prime minister petro sanchez considers a snap election after parliament voted down his budget. the chinese film won second in the running of the permanent international film festival i'm with drawn in mysterious circumstances for find out from our correspondent on the red carpet.

i'm filled welcome to the program the number of anti semitic crimes committed in germany has risen by almost ten percent over the past year the highest level for a decade figures released today are causing a lot of injuries shock communities violent attacks are up by more than sixty percent so this is prompted germany's central council of jews to call for stronger action from police and politicians the signboards of a jewish restaurant smashed a pig paid marked with a star of david dumped by a door swastikas and stars of david on a wall this was the aftermath of an anti semitic attack in the eastern german city of chemists in august twenty eighth. it was just one of more than sixteen hundred

anti semitic crimes committed in germany last year that's an increase of ten percent on twenty seventeen particularly worrying the number of violent incidents like this one in berlin has increased by two thirds if. i am concerned but not really surprised it fits with what i hear from jewish organizations and representatives when i talk to them but. it should give us the impetus to take preventative action soon and to make sure that anti semitism does not arise in the first place that as. much of this hatred comes from far right supporters but experts say some of it derives from opposition to israel including from migrants from the muslim world and germany is not alone anti semitic incidents are becoming more common in other countries to france this week reported a rise of more than seventy percent in twenty eighteen compared with the previous

year. and is unfortunately anti-semitism is on the advance everywhere in europe we need to find european solution is i support the idea of making the fight against anti-semitism a priority for the german e.u. presidency next year. another part of the picture in germany is that the jewish community is growing and demonstrations of solidarity with them by non jews are common while most germans recognize that from the holocaust comes a special responsibility to protect jews there is sadly still a minority ready to turn violent aggression against them. spidy next where the center left government is a face in an uncertain future after parliament rejected its budget prime minister petro sanchez is expected to announce on friday whether he will call an early general election the socialist premier had been depending on the support of two pro independent parties to get the budget through but both voted against after he ruled

out talks on self-determination for consul mona saying that spain's constitutional just lost a lot. more from pablo. welcome pablo so where does this leave the government well this is do government with what is funded commentators are saying with hours more or less until an announcement is made on the end of better sanctions as government is going to call snap elections that's what x. what's expected it looks likely. it will take place in april because in may of course spain will be taking part in the european elections and also regional and local elections will be taking place then so on friday there's a cabinet meeting and it's expected that an announcement will be made by then over and back to when the parliament will be dissolved and when the elections will take place ok so just to be clear this is this is such a big deal because he doesn't get to reproduce and he doesn't get to change and

come back if he gets no budget then he has no good this is it and i mean at the end of the day it better sanchez is leading a very minority government will say you know we represent thirty percent of the members of parliament so he's needed the support from as you mentioned before as the pro independence parties they have not given him this support for a number of reasons and one they were open to supporting him if there are sanchez was open to this to the idea of there perhaps even holding a referendum in catalonia to have a vote on the future of that. region sanchez has said no way that will not happen it's anti constitutional he had sort of made concessions in the sense that he was open to dialogue as i mentioned and he said that he would have an intermediary who would help will say in that process of sort of breaking down those barriers that

exist between madrid and barcelona since the referendum took place in barcelona back in october two thousand and seventeen ok so nobody in spite of surprise about this everybody saw this discovered what or not at all and we have to look as well at the main opposition parties nationwide and of course there is now a right wing bloc made up the p.p.p. of the former government of martyrdom of a. center party and now the far right party vox together they have been calling for the end of better sentences government in fact just several days ago in madrid they they organized a protest where tens of thousands of people came out and they protested against the government of president sanchez and it was mainly based on the fact that there was making what they believe are concessions to those pro independence cattle and leaders and finally mentioning the catalan leaders let's not forget that this week is also the week in which the trial has begun in madrid not too far from madrid

parliament there where you have twelve of the leaders of the pro independence movement that pushed back in twenty seventeen so there's been so much political pressure on all sides that this was inevitable public. thank you so much. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world german authorities have arrested two suspected former members of syria's secret police in berlin and in the state of rival and palatinate the man accused of crimes against humanity and are believed to have tortured opposition activists at a prison in damascus. the head of the philippines and news sites critical of the country's president has been arrested maria ressa says the accusation of cyber libel against her is the latest attempt by a broad reader to tertius government to silence a social news network rappler the veteran journalist is one of several people named

person of the here by time magazine or political reforms. thousands of south africa workers have staged demonstrations nationwide against job cuts and high unemployment trade unionists took to the streets of johannesburg and other major cities south africa house of jobs for his home twenty five percent protesters say the government is failing to do enough to kick start growth. a red black panther has been caught on camera in kenya for wildlife photographer will brad lucas first took pictures of the creature in like wilderness camp in january researchers from the san diego zoo confirm the sighting with camera traps and say these are the first verifiable records of the out of work for nearly a century. healthcare workers in nigeria have gone on strike a days before the country's general election highlighting the anger felt by a many in the country the government's management of the public sector and the economy the strike puts growing pressure on president mohamed who is facing

a tight race against the main opposition candidate t w correspondent krege report in northeastern nigeria. sophia philip mudd and her colleagues at the federal hospital in yola may look happy but deep down that angry in april and may last year they went on strike to demand higher pay but instead of a raise the government refused to pay them for the two months they didn't work nobody to tell us we need justice but we weren't dead then she was last seen throughout the country federal health workers are on a three day warning strike that will end on wednesday. the health workers demand for their remaining salaries to be paid but the federal government insists that they didn't work for these two months and this is why they will not be paid. union representatives accused the government of not focusing enough on the

health care sector it doesn't get what i wanted workers there was i would have got notice which is bad where we're going to say i'm going to go this is not good we do the same thing but i was a little bit. doesn't as bright as you what is it as some of the members of his i know that doesn't often our. labor unions are threatening further strikes if the government doesn't pay and despite the hardship sophia philip man says she's prepared to keep on fighting. nato defense ministers meeting in brussels to discuss the steps needed to protect your up if the u.s. russia nuclear disarmament treaty fails secretary-general yeah i. underlined that nato allies are in agreement that russia is in violation of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty which bans the development and possession of intermediate range nuclear missiles that washington and states with george patton this month mr stoltenberg says there is still time to negotiate so russia still has

a chance to come back into compliance and we call on russia to take this opportunity. what to do. was standard it to engage further with russia but we're also preparing for a world with zero on this treaty let's go to people that international film festival which underway just across town. they sat down on the red carpet welcome let's start with the control will see this chinese for one second it's being withdrawn from the world's premiere and from the competition why. was of a mystery why actually we were all rather shocked yesterday when we saw that it had in fact been withdrawn in the press screenings had been canceled especially because the directors is somewhat of a fixture at ballymaloe he was the first chinese director to ever win a golden bear way back in one nine hundred eighty eight he's also considered one of

china's top directors he directed the two thousand and eight the opening ceremonies of the beijing olympics which is something we all remember now the explanation that we're being given right now is that it was pulled due to technical problems but through some reporting that our our colleague scott has done it looks like it may have been a case of censorship this film deals with the chinese cultural revolution which is a very very sensitive topic in china and the fact that it may be this again this is unsubstantiated right now but it's a rather concerning look for barely knowledge to simply parrot what the chinese government has put out saying that it's simply due to technical issues. as well today about a film that is still in the competition this is. what's going on there. indeed but we just had the red carpet for lisa marcella right behind me here and during that red carpet a bunch of protesters actually crashed as the festival director dieter costless was

posing for pictures with movie star juliette binoche and those protesters were holding signs that said kino shot streaming festival which means cinema not a streaming festival and one of the this refers to specifically the controversy around netflix which was the sponsor of marsala and one of the big things about this is the fact that theater owners of movie theater owners who signed a huge letter to teach across like asking him to withdraw the film from the competition because it was netflix that it sponsored it they're fearing for their business is basically that people are simply going to stay home and watch streaming films only if those type of films keep being clued in these festivals but peter costello. responded to these people saying you know what no we have to adapt with the times and this film is going to be included in the competition. but the film festival is renowned for. was films. oh well

now that you mention it just this morning there was a film by the legendary french filmmaker agnes varda which she is really quite a force to be reckoned with she's over ninety years old and she is spry and sharp as a tack still but this film was definitely just as you described it was sort of a weird mash of documentary and art house film with a ted talk it was sort of her vision of how exactly she approaches her art and how she makes her films and what she chooses but not exactly for the mainstream audience i will say and if they're not someone who's familiar with agnes varda or her work maybe sit this one out. and down time so much. this is. from. a business update in just a moment. south africa as it faces some of its biggest protests in. unemployment

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