you know. this is deja vu news live from berlin the u.s. tells europe to get on board with its policies against iran u.s. vice president mike pence calls on european allies to pull out of the iran nuclear deal and stop trying to break up u.s. sanctions. also coming up farewell to the superjumbo european aviation giant air bus pulls the plug on its double decker a three eighty because airlines just aren't buying and nothing of that. hurts in syria no wonder about their state test the u.s. prepares for withdrawal from syria russia turkey and iran are talking about the kurds

and about other shared interests in that country. in the last day in competition at the berlin film festival our correspondents have had a sneak peek of today's world premiere so long my song by chinese director wang josh why so anyone choose the second prize at this festival twice could this year be gold. i'm sumi so much god that's good to have you with us. u.s. vice president mike pence has a cold on europe to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal accusing washington's european allies of trying to evade u.s. sanctions on the country heads was speaking at a middle east security conference in the polish capital warsaw the talks are being led by the u.s. and israel who are aiming to push a more aggressive stance on iran delegates from more than sixty countries have been

taking part including from a number of arab nations but several countries did not send high ranking delegations let's listen now to those comments from the u.s. vice president mike pence sadly. some of our leading european partners have not been nearly as cooperative in fact the. mechanisms to break up our sanctions or at some strong words there from the u.s. vice president let's bring in our political correspondent hans bronte is covering the story for you hi hans have there been any reactions yet from the german government to these comments. no they're free no reactions and in the last half hour or so since mike pence made that statement about we have to remember as we as we heard earlier that this conference where he's speaking in warsaw is controversial in itself. some people here in germany especially on the left of the political spectrum are describing the conference as

a war mongering gathering trying to start a war against iran i presume and certainly the german government of various other european governments in western europe mostly are not attending this conference at a very high ranking level that only send junior ministers to attend the conference so the whole set up is controversial and it can be expected that germany will continue to defend this deal with iran and will continue to keep it stands that communications channels with the iranian side need to be kept open all right that is the expectation hans but the u.s. is really stepping up pressure here is there any scenario where we could see germany and its a european allies heeding these warnings perhaps even ditching the iran deal. i think that the at the moment there's no indication of that at all and there is a major security conference taking place in germany later this week starting tomorrow and in preparation for that the german foreign minister heikal monson his

french counterpart published. a piece in a newspaper here in germany today. defending their stance and pushing for a further multilateral order in the world and in that context as i said one of the big examples for successful multilateral deals is in fact to steal. atomic deal with iran so this morning in the newspapers here they defended the deal and in fact as we know the european union has served up a structure to help european companies circumvent american sanctions that's what mike pence was referring to there is an official structure in europe for european companies to do trade with iran and to help them to overcome or to circumvent american sanctions in other words there is a lot of political capital and possibly also commercial capital invested in all of this all right our political correspondent hans brandt covering the story for us

good to talk to you let's catch up now on some other stories making news around the world at least eighteen soldiers have been killed and dozens are wounded in india a car bomb attack on a part paramilitary convoy there administered in the indian part administered kashmir a senior police official said the attack occurred on the outskirts of the disputed regions main city a srinagar authorities blamed militants of fighting against indian rule for the attack. at least seven people have died during a week of violent protests in haiti demonstrators have repeatedly clashed with police in the capital port au prince the protesters are accusing the government of corruption and calling on the president to resign and a u.s. strike has ruled that former trump campaign manager paul man of court intentionally lied to investigators probing russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election after he was convicted of financial fraud last year manna for a promise to cooperate with the probe is a part of

a plea deal breaching that agreement means he could face a lengthy jail term and in the philippines prominent journalist maria ressa has been released on bail following her arrest on charges of cyber libel on wednesday ressa is head of the news website rappler which has reported critically on president rodrigo to tara to her supporters see the charges against her as a government attack on press freedom. now russian president vladimir putin has told us turkish and iranian counterparts that the presence of what he called terrorist groups should not be tolerated in syria region he made those comments at a summit he's hosting in the black sea resort of sochi aimed at ending the eight year war in syria is a must militants who used to belong to the news for a front group are now in control of much of it live while russia and iran are backing syrian president bashar al assad turkey is supporting the forces fighting against him. let's bring in our correspondent yury rachet there who is in sochi

covering the story for us hi yuri these talks are still ongoing what can you tell us about what's being discussed there. well the goal of today's summit assuming was to concede a joint steps between russia turkey and iran that would lead towards a long term settlement in syria one of those steps closer coordination of military cooperation on the ground turkish president wants for example russian air support over turkish held areas and suggested operations could be called unaided at the russia's base in northwestern syria however there is still disagreement on a range of issues here for example turkey wants to create a buffer zone or safe zone near its border with syria and also around province with russian help but russia told turkey on it has no right to create a safe zone inside syria without consent of president bashar al assad and turkey for its part of would like to see a south removed from power so there are some stumbling blocks them still remaining

that eerie we heard there's a parallel conference going on right now warsaw syria is also on the agenda there what can all of these bilateral talks actually achieve for syria's future. summiteers sume in sochi is a meeting not only of three military partners in syria but also meeting with three power that are skeptical of american influence in the original in the region and we know that americans are going to withdraw from syria that includes turkey despite its nato membership and the france only further complicated by a recent meeting in warsaw you mentioned it of opponents of syrian president assad at the end of the day i think these talks are between the three major players in the middle east who are trying to feel the power vacuum after the americans leave syria. and what does russia want out of being a central player in these talks yury. well

for russia and for russia sparking us into syria iran and turkey. for all of them. they all seem to be willing to coordinate better their actions in syria i think that's the main goal so we could expect some better coordinated cooperation between russia and to the both other countries there but any agreement to sunni reached today here in sochi is as good as it will be implemented in the future so we'll see how successful the meeting today was an actuality although both of lemon hooten and the us president trump have announced that isis has been defeated reality exit be different in peace and syria is still a long way off. as your ear rachet are reporting for us from sochi you're eager to talk to you. now washington is preparing to withdraw its troops from syria that withdrawal will be a blow for kurdish forces closely allied with the us they fear an all out offensive

from turkey once u.s. forces are out of the way turkey regards the kurdish militia in syria as terrorists we have this report now from the kurdish city of karbala on the border with turkey . layla visits this grave and every thursday to pray and honor the memory of her only son rody he died fighting the so-called islamic state in twenty thirteen as did thousands more kurds leila hopes her sons commitment to freedom wasn't in vain it's a hope that unites many mothers who have lost their sons in this region. that will never forget them it is truly a tremendous loss that we're keeping our composure by remembering our sons in our hometown god forbid that blood has been shed in vain them and not to have a high level of. but many kurds in northern syria have misgivings this is where the kurdish militia the y.p. g. forces the i asked to retreat in a major offensive in late two thousand and fourteen the price of freedom was high

a heavy death toll and enormous destruction. today another danger looms from the turkish side. across the border nearby president tycho to one day use the y. p.g. as an offshoot of the outlawed kurdish workers' party the p.k. k. he's threatening a military offensive because they don't have to defend your medication invasion of northern syria would be nothing short of colonialism where defending our country here. what does add to an once here. what does he want from. there to one insists on creating what he calls a security zone along the turkish border he's calling on the y p g to pull out of this thirty kilometer strip if it complies turkey would then control the area for many kurds living in ca bana that amounts to a nightmare but. i think security zone is the wrong term this area has been secure

for a long time now the whole world knows that syria is north and east is the safest region in the entire country. but that could change dramatically grieving families like layla's would be all the more and better if turkey were to take control of her fallen sons final resting place. one year ago today a nineteen year old student shot his way through a high school and parkland in the u.s. state of florida killing seventeen people as so often before americans were gripped by shock and grief what happened next was different students at the high school started a movement called march for our lives their goal to make america's gun laws tougher . valentine's day two thousand and eighteen students at marjorie stoneman douglas high school run for their lives after a gunman opened fire in the school hallways killing fourteen students and three

staff. rattle on. low order. in years old. grief for lost friends and siblings quickly turned into activism was was was only six weeks after the pop gun massacre more than a million young people took to the streets across the u.s. in one of the biggest usenet protests since the vietnam war. the main event in washington d.c. alone drew a crowd of eight hundred thousand pop and students where the driving force behind the movement which they dubbed the march for our lives. among them emma comes all as one of the main voices of the protest. against the time that i came out here. it has been six minutes and twenty seconds the shooter has ceased shooting and will

soon abandon his rifle blend in with the students as they escape and walk free for an hour before a rest fight for your lives before it's someone else's child. i but the gun lobby soon hit back the national rifle association claim to come pain was orchestrated by gun hating elites chemical and fellow activists david hong were accused of being paid actors. and president trump the n.r.a. is back the solution to school shootings teach as he told delegates at the annual convention in the wake of the protests there's no sean more inviting to i mare's killer then or sorry that declares this school is a gun free zone come in and take us. through on your own pocket when students continue their campaign hoping the tragedy that turned

them into activists may help to change america's gun culture. it's now airbus is pulling the plug on its largest plane the a three eighty it was supposed to revolutionize air travel but it never really took off it's a plane that was beloved by pilots and passengers but in the end it didn't have enough orders from airline customers the a three eighty represents a more than twenty billion dollars in development costs it is the world's largest passenger aircraft a double decker with a wing span of almost eighty meters it also had room for eight hundred fifty three passengers and a range of almost sixteen thousand kilometers anough to cover virtually any connection on earth without refueling as impressive as it sounds only eighteen airlines found that the a three eighty was actually worth the investment of the customers were emirates singapore airlines of the australian carrier quantas and also the european airlines lufthansa and air france now airbus was counting on

a demand of one thousand two hundred eighty two planes when it launched a decade ago but in the end only three hundred and thirteen orders actually came in as the price of fuel jumped and more economical plane designed it came popular in the era of the airbus a three eighty super jumbo passenger jet is coming to a close the a three eighty took off for the first time in two thousand and eight and seats five hundred passengers the company had hoped that the plane would squeeze out boeing seven forty seven and revolutionize air travel for passengers have always been big fans of the three eighty and if given the plane high marks for comfort space and for the quiet ride but airlines have been cautious about committing to the constantly double decker planes and in the end they just weren't willing to pay the massive price tag to own the fine be among the a three eighty had troubles from the start including tensions between airbus is french and german

management and protracted production delays and cost overruns those prompted a company restructuring that cost thousands of jobs. after can't just cancel the order and emirates cancel thirty nine the company says it will simply put an end to production of the a three eighty by twenty twenty one. because your answer good of you business is with us hi monica the airbus airbus scrapping of the a three eighty how big of a blow with well for one if you see the headlines we carry the headline into every big broadcast says scraps a three eighty that's not a nice headline so it's a blow to the image definitely but it's an even bigger blow in financial terms invested billions of euros there's talk of some twenty five billion euros in the development of the super jumbo and just by that hefty price tag that we just heard about almost half a million euros per aircraft it didn't make a cent on the a three eighty so financially that wasn't

a very good idea and then of course there's the impact on jobs the possible impact because there's talk about possibly three and a half thousand jobs being caught by this or affected by this but also said already that the bad luck for its smaller mid-range and very successful a three twenty is so big that those jobs can possibly be shifted within the company so that's good news at least at the silver lining we mentioned that pilots and passengers love this plane it was a big technical achievement as well why wasn't it a financial success well it's a bit like with the dinosaurs it's really is science you had there's these impressive numbers there and they are impressive but they were not very popular try and fill an aircraft that can seat about eight hundred or more passengers you first have to sell those tickets and that was very difficult for for those few airlines who actually bought the a three eighty and of course it is because of its size it's a four engine aircraft and those four engines they have everything stay they use an

awful lot of fuel and that is very costly so a lot of airlines rather switched to smaller also long haul and. line jets which now only have two engines and they're much more sufficient so what was the big mistake from airbus there was a trying to go for a plane that was just too big i don't think they could dig couldn't read the sign of the times they thought that aviation would go the way that passengers would like to go from one major air hop to another big aviation hop and then maybe switch into a swallow or aircraft in order to get to their final destination and clearly this is not what's been happening also because of those more fuel efficient two engine jets that were almost imitating the sleek developed and that that were much more attractive and the a three eighty again the size you don't have many airports that can actually host this there's a lot i don't brazil for example doesn't have a single airport where the a three eighty would fit the latin america africa no airline they are bought the a three eighty so that was good or at the end of the a

three eighty for airbus monica johnson did of your business thank you so much. people formed a human chain in the german city of dresden to commemorate its intense bombing during world war two british and u.s. bombers dropped nearly four thousand tons of bombs and incendiary devices on the city killing tens of thousands of people. thousands of people gathered in dresden to mark the anniversary and to form a human chain intended as a symbol of peace and reconciliation we don't want it ever happening again. thinking back it was terrible. exactly seventy four years ago allied bombers began pounding dresden and most of the city center was destroyed in the raids and up to twenty five thousand people died. many also gathered for a ceremony of the city's largest cemetery among those invited survivors of the

raids students from the united kingdom and visitors from poland artists jesus learn and freedom after more than seventy years of peace and contemplation we can be happy that the enemies of the past have become friends of today. at the same time as europeans we can't forget just how fragile this peace and happiness is at the city's famous church of our lady there were prayers of hope and compassion which focused on the future. even to uneasy and at the same time we have to look at today's world with compassion and empathy for those currently facing displacement war and violence between. in previous years neo nazi groups have tried to instrumental eyes the february thirteenth anniversary by holding political rallies however dressed and residents have managed to block these the last three years. today is the last day of competition at the berlin film festival and you get

your charlotte charleston pill and david leavitt's are down at the red carpet hi guys you got a sneak peek of today's world premiere it's called so long my son and it's by a chinese director wang drash why he's already won second prize at this festival twice so could this year be gold. hey sumi well you know what this is a world premiere and that means that we can't actually give you a review until the world premiere has started i will say that this movie on the surface of things has it all it has everything that this festival is about it's deeply emotional deeply human and also quite political and it does something that's pretty important which is it it's part of a movement within china to start reexamining their recent past and the huge shifts that have happened there over the last decades and this film covers three decades of recent chinese past right and the whole thing with that in this year's samy is personal is political so that is something that the judges have said that they are looking for in any films that are running in competition in this film certainly has

that as david said it stands three decades post the cultural revolution in china to take all the change that that encompasses in china is a story of loss is a story of lifelong grief and guilt it is three hours in length so it's quite a harrowing watch but it yeah right and particularly it's about one family who loses their son they go on to adopt another son but the relationship there is not as strong as they would like and now they only have one son to begin with partly due to china's former one child policy in essence the female leads character is forced or nearly four station say to undergo an abortion and she does it under great pressure and that's something that there's a sense of regret throughout the movie all right sounds like a compelling film i do want to ask you about another chinese film that was supposed to be in the competition it's called one second about the china's cultural revolution that world premiere was pulled what more can you tell us. yeah

that's something a lot of people hear us speculating about at the moment if you're right it was called one second it's by another chinese director. and we found out on monday that that film would no longer be in competition on the official line. line on the social media page of the film was that it was pulled to technical reasons that is something that the better not is that as well an official statement it said that it just wasn't completed on time but of course there's a lot of speculation given the fact that it's a chinese film and it dealt with some quite political quite challenging issues the speculation that censorship may have been involved now the ballot not officially has been relatively quiet on this issue although the director outgoing director did a caustic has expressed his regrets about it he makes a point that the director isabella not a favorite has actually won the top prize the golden bear in the past let's have a listen to what the caustic have to say because i'm disappointed you can't imagine it was the glows in the night for my eighteen years film festival year and now it's

without checking she moved. yeah and there's especially been speculation again today after we saw so long my son because that's a movie that really does deal with china's past quite critically especially the former one child movement so there's a bit of a question among journalists if it is censorship why was that film allowed to be shown and humorous film not about to be shown where that was something that the director of today's films along my son was actually asked directly he said that he felt his film wasn't sense it because it's stuck to the rules he said he always tries to stick to the rules but he said he was very surprised and disappointed by the filming pulled from the competition all right and guys a what else is buzzing there at the festival just briefly if you can. well well there is an honorary prize for a lifetime achievement we know who it is it is the british actor charlotte rampling

who burst onto the scene in the one nine hundred sixty s. as a glamour puss but a glamour puss with a difference she acts in french movies and italian movies she's glamorous with a lot of depth with right she's a huge deal ahead the bad and she's been on the jury she's won numerous prizes a lot of people are very excited that she's been given this award all right now where the award and. david leavitt's down at the red carpet thank you both so much . i winder now of our top story that we're following for you at this hour u.s. vice president mike pence has called on america's european allies to pull out of iran the nuclear deal he was a speaking at a conference where the u.s. and israel are pushing for a more aggressive stance on iran. coming up next bangladesh's prime minister sheikh has seen a picture exclusively today w. bush insists that the people of bangladesh do have freedom of speech in the country ranks very low on the world press freedom index. that's coming up right next

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