hard. truths detectives starts feb fifteenth on w. . this is eat up you knew slime from berlin and anti semitic crimes on the rise in germany new statistics show that hate crimes against jews at their highest level in a decade sparking alarm among the country's jewish community also coming up spain's government in crisis says prime minister pedro sanchez considers calling a snap election after parliament voted down his budget and the chinese film one

second was in the running at the berlin film festival and then withdrawn under mysterious circumstances we'll find out more from our correspondent on the red carpet. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program the number of anti semitic crimes committed in germany has risen by almost ten per cent over the past year the highest level in a decade figures released today are causing alarm in jewish communities violent attacks are up by more than sixty percent this has 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 head marked with

a star of david dumped by a door swastikas and stars of david dunn 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. 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. 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 and he semitic incidents are becoming more common in other countries too france this week reported a rise of more than seventy percent in twenty eighteen compared with the previous year. unfortunately anti-semitism is on the advance everywhere in europe we need to find european solutions i support the idea of making the fight against anti-semitism a priority for the german 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. when i was spain center left government is facing an uncertain future after the 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 have been depending on the support of two cattle and pro independence parties to get his budget through but both voted against after he ruled out talks on self-determination for catalonia saying that spain's constitution doesn't allow it . for more on this let's cross now to journalist mark roberts who is joining us from madrid so now that we know that parliament has voted against the prime minister's budget where does this leave his government right now but it's a longstanding spanish vote and she received at losing a budget vote. a motion coincidence so he has really know what she will do to go to the corruption cold fresh elections as you say he's expected to the days and to come in the b.b.c. speculation currently suggests that this will be held in the us in april suggesting

it will be dissolved in so. now the prime minister i mean if we just look at the back story here he faced a lot of criticism over hence his efforts to establish a dialogue with these cattle and separatists why have they now turned against him. well a sticking point for this government house with several previous governments the request holds a referendum on independence i should say this would require constitutional amendments would require a two thirds majority in parliament and then says all poems russian lections fans of the current circumstances that's of course we will consider it and since it is also it would set a precedence a very uncomfortable one for other parts of spain and indeed other regions around europe which prosenjit and his european policy is very keen to courts amend that political uncertainty what is the opposition saying how is it positioning itself

right now well the three main opposition parties that the rights of such as don't let are actually rather happy because on sunday they jointly held a rally attended by fifty thousand people here in times have addressed calling on centuries to resign called oppression lections within minutes of the. leader of the main opposition party was already appeared to vote as it left his policy the conservative people's policies the new policies to come back to him and he also used the opportunity accuse senses of being empty patriotic so basically the election happens already of the way take us through that election campaign and the possible results a man who stands to gain the most share and what could the next government potentially look like. well what we look like we're going to have is the third time politicians in about as many years as the reason they specifically in the last

three or four years spain's two traditional parties on the left at rice now have rivals and in fact poll suggests that we have seen the light probably policies you can expect a whole between senator clinton hundred percent of the folks now poll suggests that her ascension is socialist policy will increase the share of those. that they thought she did in government so that would be a victory of sorts however no one will have a clearer jealousy and really it's very much up in the who will actually end up really picks martin roberts joining us from the thread thank you. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world according to iranian media at least twenty members of the country's revolutionary guard have been killed in a suicide attack in southeastern iran the suicide bomber reportedly struck a bus carrying the elite troops on the road between the cities then adama and cotch

in one of the provinces there. now german authorities have arrested two suspected former members of syria's secret police in berlin and in the state of rhineland nates the men are accused of crimes against humanity and are believed to have tortured opposition activists at a person in damascus and thousands of south african workers have staged nationwide demonstrations against job cuts and high unemployment trade unionists took to the streets of johannesburg and other major cities south africa's jobless rate is over twenty five percent protesters say that the government is failing to do enough to stimulate growth. nato defense ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss steps needed to protect europe if a us russian nuclear disarmament pact falls apart the nato secretary general. urged russia to return to compliance with the i.n.f.

treaty but said that the alliance was making plans for a scenario with out the deal which bans the development and possession of intermediate range nuclear missiles the pact is under threat after washington announced its withdrawal earlier this month accusing russia of violating it. and did that because teri schultz followed the nato meeting in brussels and sent us this analysis. nato allies met for the first time since the us announced it would withdraw from the i.m.f. treaty if moscow doesn't agree to destroy the missile system that breaches the treaties limits all twenty eight other allies have come to back the u.s. on this because they agree that a one sided treaty is not effective arms control it doesn't mean it doesn't make them nervous because of course any future battleground between the u.s. and russia would be european territory u.s. acting defense secretary patrick shanahan sought to reassure nato counterparts by saying the u.s. has no plans to deploy a nuclear weapons in europe at the same time nobody knows exactly what the u.s. plans will look like because washington says it's been abiding by the treaty and so

it hasn't further developed its thinking on this germany is one of the countries most uncomfortable with any talk of of nuclear weapons and defense minister ursula vanderlei and was asked if she could rule out this possibility she said it's too early to do that she said it's also too early to speculate on what any future arms control or defense systems would look like until we're truly in a post i n f world and that won't happen until august at the very earliest germany may have benefited from all the focus on i.m.f. because dinner was to focus on defense spending and of course germany's is quite a bit below where nato would like its allies to be. france and italy meanwhile are trying to repair relations amid a diplomatic dispute paris recalled its ambassador from rome last week after italian officials met representatives of the french yellow vest protest movement in the latest edition of conflict zone tim sebastian spoke with marco sami a member of the european parliament representing italy's governing league party

subash and asked him whether his party leader had gone too far when he criticised the french government's economic and migration policies no i think it's normal political opposition and. these these government tend not to me are challenging people and politicians or governments of. different ideas especially on the future is a group of the normal though isn't it in france they have a bad government and the bad president. that's something that is showing up in france we did a lot of unusual protests from french citizens and we are supporting friend in challenging governments in we. are you. know you are not agreeing we are not together. we are supporting our allies in the european parliament that these marine le pen and it's clear that we are free to criticize proposed old sort of guarding the future of the european union.

and you can see that entire interview on conflict zone right after this program or online at the w dot com slash conflicts. to haiti now where at least six people have died in nearly a week of protests calling for the country's president jovan eloise to resign the demonstrations have paralyzed the capital port au prince across the impoverished caribbean nation anger is mounting with people accusing the government of economic mismanagement and corruption. thousands take to the streets of port o'connor. protesters in the haitian capital of been venting their frustration for nearly a week several people have died some from police gunfire the demonstrators want president over new movies to resign but he's done nothing but lie to the people he doesn't say anything honest he's ruined the economy and today we have nothing. but

. he was already reeling from a series of crises it's the poorest country in the western hemisphere with unemployment corruption and violence plaguing society the country still recovering from a devastating earthquake in two thousand and ten that killed three hundred thousand people the opposition says president movies has stolen aid money meant to rebuild the country and several ministers are tied up in scandals over billions in missing funds from an oil alliance scheme the president on the right in this video has offered talks he says he wants to solve the economic crisis and ease hunger in haiti but the opposition says people will stay in the streets until movies steps down. now to venezuela where the government and opposition are facing off over the delivery of u.s. aid tuesday saw a massive demonstrations across the country with protesters demanding the aid be allowed in and in neighboring colombia venezuelan migrants took to the streets in

the border city of kuta where the aid supplies have been stored their anger was aimed at venezuelan president nicolas maduro he's describing the american aid as a ploy to allow a u.s. invasion and has blocked its entry into business with. german president. has just wrapped up a visit to colombia where hundreds of thousands of venezuelans have fled. oh yes killing by a show arrived in bogota only a few weeks ago but already she's out on the streets from morning to evening selling sweets she's desperate to earn a little cash so she can feed her baby boy. the one. i left venezuela because i couldn't buy anything that no food no dike was. story is typical for the many venezuelans who have fled hardship at home and who live a hand to mouth existence in colombia there are no migrant camps to shelter them often the only help they receive comes from the generosity of the locals. the

government can afford to offer only limited aid with so many colombians living in poverty themselves. the german president's visit comes at a critical time colombians have shown compassion responding to the mass migration into their country. but they're worried the political crisis across the border will escalate into civil war. further swelling the number of new arrivals. frank walter steinmeier is keen to prevent that. is missing mid to long view good for. we have to find ways and means to avoid the bloodshed that many fear could ensue in venezuela. so that's why i hope that there will soon be a presidential election. in the presidential election which will give quite doth a legitimacy that he himself sees as necessary.

fatherhood steinmeyer and colombia's president even do agree that aid needs to get into venezuela as quickly as possible nope it meet the to not let humanitarian aid into the country is a crime against humanity. he said. it has to happen fast. that the international community cannot accept the current situation. the world can't stand by and do nothing aid is prevented from entering your guy you . do can believe everything must be done to get aid into venezuela he did not say if that should include military intervention. and for the venezuelan president nicolas maduro refusing to allow humanitarian aid into the country social media has become a lifeline to help people meet their basic needs for more let's bring in a very unforgiving who has been following this side of the story so i mean how are

they using social media to get through this crisis sara they are using these platforms to really try and seek help and often to seek the basics like food clothes like medicine things that have either become impossible to find or an affordable because of the hyperinflation and we are really seeing a lot of these calls for help on twitter on what's up also this is one of them it's twenty four year old mother she has four children she is money or east she only waits thirty six kilos and she's been taking care of by and then geo but the ngo itself here is asking for donations because they don't have the resources to really care for this woman and her family and just to make to put things into perspective a survey last year found that between twenty seven thousand and twenty eighteen this will last more than ten kilos in weight on average so the situation because of

a lack of food because they couldn't afford it so the situation really is dire and it's not only food i mean it's also medication it's up but also other things as well so how you know how is that side of the story absolutely i mean this is another huge set of the crisis is that the health care system is collapsing because the. there is a lack of medication the pharmacies are running out of stocks and also people are turning to social media to try and find the medicines and there's even a hash tag. public service and we are seeing for example this young man who has diabetes there's a massive shortage of insulin in venezuela at the moment and so he had to turn to twitter to try and hope hope hoping that some maybe someone would have insulin to donate and the thing is messages like this they are getting drowned out in the sea of tweets from many this bridge venezuelans but if you're lucky your message might be picked up by someone like the admiral who was

a pharmacist in caracas and he's really using his pharmacist twitter account to connect people who are looking for a certain meds and with people who might have some of that medicine in stock and here he this pharmacy is writes we are delivering patches of nitroglycerin for a seventy nine year old patient and i and supplements for another patient so it's not just pharmacies they're running out of stocks it's also the hospitals and we're seeing that many hospitals are no longer able to care for patients they're asking patients to bring their own bandages for example or there are people waiting for surgeries who cannot be treated and they are also turning them to social media to try and get help and this really has become this network has become really important like a matter of life and death for many people and a desperate situation for so many and we can see that they're trying to use whatever resources they can get their hands on for the week of walking us through what's happening online right now thank you thank you. you know every

year the german city of dresden remembers the intense bombing that it indoors during world war two as part of that remembered as the city awards the dresden peace prize this year's winner is the peace prize or the peace activist excuse me kim focus on t. whose picture taken during the vietnam war became one of the most famous war photos of all time is going to kettle's went to dressed to meet her. is to say kumble to be the recipient of such a thing that this teen was a word. with so much meaning behind it can focus famous for being the subject of the photograph. the photograph was such a word that it galvanized public opinion to roam the world about the war in vietnam and helped change the course of history. void.

of void totally. dilute my peers chew. my mouth my. face my body is the worst moment of human being. as a little girl i felt so embarrassed why i was naked and my brothers my passing was close on. i just do it right there and i turned my hat and i saw fall bombs landing lead that fire was everywhere and the fire actually burned my clothes off. i was nine you know and i remember i thought

oh my goodness i got. so i would be ugly and so people would see me a different way of course that moment that picture that day and my life what i have. now i know i have a picture i am not. feeling embarrassed like before. but not much today until the moment when i have a child i look my boy and they have what one of the children saw from life that little girl. is me and so from that point it's really touch me and that picture became so powerful give for me. if everyone can learn to live with love with hope and

forgiveness absolutely we don't need war. if that little girl in the picture can do it so everyone can do with two thousand. well now we're heading to the berlin international film festival which is underway just across town from here and correspondent my schrader is on the red carpet for us importing this evening we have to start with some controversy because the chinese film one second has been withdrawn from its world premiere and from the competition what happened. we were all extremely surprised yesterday when we looked at our schedules and saw that this film which had been somewhat highly anticipated was suddenly canceled the press screenings have been canceled it was

pulling out of the competition and the explanation that we were given was that there were technical problems that are preventing it from being screened but the thing is the directors john you mo is rather beloved girl an international film festival he was the first ever chinese director to win the golden bear back in one nine hundred eighty eight his films have had good runs here he's always well received he's also the man who directed the two thousand and eight opening ceremony for the beijing olympics which is something that so many people remember it was so memorable and one thing that our correspondent my colleague scott roxboro has found through his reporting and his connections that this may actually be unfortunately a case of censorship this film that he was about to premier was dealt with the time of the cultural revolution which is still a very sensitive topic in china in even though the director is also very highly regarded in china it looks like not even he could get the cultural revolution past the censors and if this is a case of censorship that's extremely worrying for international film and

international free speech and that wasn't the only controversy right there's also one about another film in competition a lisa and marcella tell us about that case. absolutely so just a few hours ago we had the red carpet premiere of that film and protesters actually crashed the red carpet holding signs that said in german cinema not streaming festival which is in reference to the controversy around this room which is that netflix was the one who gave the money to produce this film and this caused a huge up for in berlin cinema community resulting in this letter that with this open letter that was written to deter costs of like the director of the berlin film festival demanding that he withdraw all the film from consideration because that basically shrugged his shoulders and said no it's staying in we have to adapt to the times netflix and other streaming services are going to continue taking over so

it's staying in. the brawn film festival i mean we have to say it's we're now and for obscure or art house films too and i understand that you've actually seen one funny you should mentions of the big film this morning was a documentary by legendary french filmmaker agnes varda called. agnes varda if you don't know her she was one of the original feminists in the filmmaking scene one of the original female directors she is now over ninety years old she is spry and sharp as a tack and funny and very charming which i hope is so lucky to be like her when we're that age but the film itself is sort of this mash up of like an autobiography documentary ted talk about her process in the way that she approaches the themes that she works with the way she approaches are art and her films i will say though if you are not familiar with her work or you're not familiar with her maybe skip this one it's not for the uninitiated a my

a spanner on the red carpet thank you. they're watching data via news i'm sarah kelly and our land we have a whole lot more d.w. news coming up after a short break but that's all for me for now thank you so much for watching and don't forget you can follow us on social media.

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