this is the w.'s line from the u.s. tells europe to get on board with its policies against iran vice president mike pence calls on european allies to pull outs of the iran nuclear deal and stop trying to break u.s. sanctions on the program. to the superjumbo european aviation giant. production of its double decker a three eighty because allen's don't want them. also coming up a year from the parking school shootings in florida the nation gripped by shock and

grief but the students took to the streets on the march for a movement to find out what's happened six. welcome to the program u.s. vice president mike pence has called on europe to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and accused washington's and european allies of trying to evade u.s. sanctions against the country mr pence was speaking at a middle east of security conference in the polish capital warsaw talks about by the u.s. and israel who want to push more aggressive stance on iraq iran delegates from more than sixty countries including a number of arab nations are taking part but several countries including france and germany chose not to send a high ranking delegations. let's hear some of those comments from the u.s. vice president mike pence. but sadly some of our leading european partners

have not been nearly as cooperative. in fact they've led the effort to create mechanisms to break up our sanctions. let's get more on this from a journalist and middle east expert or kristin goldberg welcome to day doubly. the u.s. has been around for some time but there is seems to be this renewed push wind well actually the u. s. planning to withdraw their own troops from syria and they were there from the point of view from perth president to try to contain iran's influence inside syria so what they are trying to do now is to find partners in the region and in eastern europe especially together with israel obviously and prime minister netanyahu to contain iran even while u.s. troops won't be there so that's the whole point how to create an alliance to push back iran until they see this because there's this very clear this is a political as well as a military strategy yes i mean president trump would like to have regional

countries neighboring countries to fill the gap maybe saudi arabia maybe egypt maybe the united arab emirates they are there and they are the ones who really all rivals of iran in the region they want to clearly contain iran's influence in the region because iran during the past few years have really gained a lot of leverage inside to the middle east look at the ban on look at iraq look at syria now look at yemen so what they are trying to do is to create this alliance to really push back any influence inside syria why even without u.s. troops on the ground many of these countries have of signally failed to get completely involved in this in this conflict so what can he tell them or offer them now what will change their minds well it's not that he has a lot to offer a president trying that's the whole problem because he's basically saying that you know america first we don't really care for the region could you please take care

of your own problems while at the same time selling them american weapons that's the only thing that he kind of you know offers to take care of by all weapons and take care of your terrorism problems you know to to make sure that. isis won't come back and to contain iran and look for your own interest so the big part of this and the the the biggest part the biggest jigsaw that has moved around is the fact that american troops are leaving so once we america has gone you people now know that it's that you will have to do something so this isn't just just out of focus minds this is what he tries to focus on this is to reassure israel in their basic fear off iranian nuclear weapons and this is to reassure prime minister netanyahu that you know the u.s. will be still on this and it's you know confronting iran right stay with us because iran obviously very much the focus of what's been going on today let's find out what iran's president has been doing while those talks have been going on in warsaw

rouhani was attending a parallel conference today in the russian city of sochi he told me he joined the leaders of russia and turkey to discuss how they can work together more closely in syria as washington prepares to withdraw its troops to russia and iran the regime of syrian president bashar al assad turkey supports the rebel forces fighting against him all three have position themselves as key foreign players in syria's a long running war. so back to christine helberg. it's the wherever these conferences happen it always strikes me so you have a russia turkey but iran is usually never there when it whether it is when syria is usually never there when its fate is being discussed yet it's not about the internal conflict between bashar assad and his own opponents anymore it's about influence of foreign powers that are trying to make sure that whatever they invested in this conflict in the past few years well now you know make them take

some wind out of it and we if we look at russia iran and turkey these other three intervening powers that have invested most and now they are deciding who. get what out of this conference so it's not about finding a solution it's not about is this is about how much of a cake each of them gets once it's done and bashar al assad you'll just have to live with us no he's fine with it because he can stay in power he has already won the war militarily this war is decided militarily by shots that stays in power the vision of let me put in the russian president is that bashar assad will regain control of the whole of syria which he's still missing in lip which is controlled by some jihadist factions of the opposition and the northeast which is which is under kurdish control but the plan of let me put it aside to regain control of the whole of syria and then the rest of the world normalizing their relations with the moscow's and then paying for reconstruction that's the plan of letting you put it he plays this contrary cleverly so what you expect to come out of this meeting that

we're very important is now the fate of the northeast actually the kurdish reason because the u.s. withdrawal leaves them without some protection so the whole idea of letting important is you to offer turkey some reassurance that there won't be a strong autonomous region in the northeast so what he did very cleverly is you remind a turkey of an agreement of the muscles the adana agreement of one thousand nine hundred was an agreement between damascus and turkey that was all about the fight against the p.k. kate which is the major danger from a turkish perspective so in this agreement damascus says ok we will not host any pick a officials we will consider them a terror organization and now i'm cover says look you should not let the country let the p why did this turkish party control the northeast of your country such would come back take control of this area and then this would be the first step to a normalization of turkey's felician with damascus this is all what brahimi put in once and everybody looking at syria and considering bashar assad the legitimate

president of the country so just a final brief word if you would mind on the geopolitics of all this or just some of this massive search off in a few seconds these two conferences in warsaw and sochi. have taken place without significant western presence the world clearly is shifting it is clearly shifting the west and especially europe have really failed to gain any influence inside there they have supported civil society inside syria and they were never ready to protect civil society from airstrikes from jihadi effect and so this is the price they're going to pay they have they live with the refugees more than one million syrians came to europe but they have to live with the fact that assad stays in power and as long as assad is in power these refugees most of them cannot return to syria so what they do actually and this is a very important point what europe should do and western europe countries do is to go after the dish of prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity and

we've just seen arrest to arrest of secret service members of the syrian regime inside germany and to bring them to court is one of the way really to help syria to find some kind of path to peace some that it's very clear thank you for the christian helberg thank you. washington professor withdraw its troops from syria that withdrawal will be a blow for kurdish forces closely allied with the us a very fear an all out offensive from turkey once u.s. forces are out of the way so turkey regards the kurdish militia in syria as terrorists so we have this report now from the kurdish city of karbala syria's border with turkey. lady who visits this grave in karbala 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. people home will never forget them and 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 unless i have a high level. but many kurds in northern syria have misgivings this is where the kurdish militia the y.p. ji forced 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 lives from the turkish side. across the border nearby president type of the one views the wife 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 tell you that this invasion of northern syria would be nothing short of colonialism but if we're defending our

country here. what does add to on once here let them know 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 with then control the area for many kurds living in kabbalah that amounts to a nightmare. 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. a second look now at some of the other stories making news around the world of course in turkey or the german

turkish journalist and social worker. will be released be released from jail in istanbul he spent ten months in prison are alleged links to a fall back part of the time he considers a terrorist group stretches trial is still ongoing and he's not allowed to return to his native germany. at least eighteen soldiers have been killed and dozens wounded in a car bomb attack on a paramilitary convoy in indian administered kashmir police said the attack occurred on the outskirts of the disputed regions main city ocean ago authorities have blamed militants fighting against indian rule. the judge in the united states has ruled that former trump campaign manager paul manifold intentionally lied to investigators looking into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election after being convicted of financial forward last year was to not afford a promise to cooperate with the investigation as part of a plea deal reaching out agreement to riggs he could not face

a lengthy jail term. says it will help production of its largest a plane the a three eighty it didn't have enough orders from airlines the world's biggest aircraft represents more than twenty billion dollars in development costs it's a double decker with a wingspan of almost eighty meters room for as many as eight hundred fifty three passengers and the range of almost sixty thousand kilometers that's enough to cover virtually any connection without refueling despite the impressive statistics only eighteen line sport it made to customers were emirates singapore singapore airlines australian carrier quantas the european airlines loved ones and air france airbus was counting on selling one thousand two hundred eighty two planes when it was launched a decade ago but only three hundred thirteen orders actually materialized as a fuel prices jumped a more economical designs became popular. it's the end of

a rather short iraq barely a decade after the world's biggest pos interject first took to the air its maker is calling us today airbus had hoped the a three eighty would squeeze out boeing seven four seven and revolutionize air travel and it was popular among passengers who gave it higher marks for comfort space to quiet ride but airlines were cautious about committing to the costly double decker planes and in the end they just weren't willing to pay the most of price tag to own the flying behemoth. at the company's annual press conference and to lose from airbus c.e.o. tom enders acknowledged the plane with. what we're seeing here is. a large four engine aircraft and that is what it is there's been speculation. for years. ten years. thing becomes. at least ten years too late

but the eighty three ac experienced trouble from the stars including tension between airbus is french and german management protracted production delays and cost overruns just the a three ac experience trouble from the start including tension between airbus is french and german management protracted production delays and cost overruns the decision to stop making the super jumbo in twenty twenty one could affect up to three thousand five hundred jobs. it's a great pity this is new territory for us the plane was unique in many ways. of course it's a huge setback for airbus but i think we'll get through it we can do it together to the. project and orders in other areas with other aircrafts. you have to get through. the demise of the a three a c. is likely to cost the plane maker more than four. hundred sixty million euros in

losses but the cost to the company's image could be gracious still. christoph cobra from the w. business welcome christophe so the a three eighty was a remarkable achievement in its day what happened well there are several flaws that the three d. has for one it is the biggest tech liner of the world and a normal conflagration it's about five hundred fifty passengers and selling each of those seats can be a challenge but that's necessary for the plane to be profitable this leads to airlines the second issue is the a three eighty s four engines thirsty engines and by the time now there are more nimble jets that you can fly long distances well they only have two engines there by using much less fuel and the third issue is that the aviation market didn't develop as airbus anticipated when they when they set out a three d. program they thought that the passenger numbers between the big hubs between new

york shanghai singapore london they would increase dramatically. making demand for such a plane but the development was different nowadays we have growing passenger numbers yes but also between the smaller. ports where people want to travel point point to point rather going through ok so it sounds like they just got it wrong exactly we heard in the report that this is going to cost of about four hundred sixty million euros is that is that a going to have a significant impact on the company well it is a blow a financial blow as well not making any money off of a prestigious project like this on the other hand airbus still is a profitable company because it sells other airplanes that are in much higher demand for that matter and also there's a question of workers about three thousand five hundred workers would be impacted by the end of production of the a three eighty an airbus has said well. we are most likely going to be able to shift these jobs within the company to other production

lines ok in terms of passengers well presumably most of us who fly we won't care because we didn't get it anyway i did. but what about the fans of this jet the airport aficionados well the a three eighty is going to be around for some more years i mean emirates the most important customer for the e three piece and they're going to continue flying this plane well until the twenty thirty so another twenty years airbus is also there is. nothing to worry about now i don't know i mean but you know there are people really liked it and you know the phasing out of the production is a blow to them but airbus says it will keep up maintenance but obviously it is close and know. it better but obviously having grossly miscalculated the market on airbus side that is not good so we're going to start talking to chris of coppa

thank you. students around the united states are marking the anniversary of the school massacre in parkland florida today with moments of silence and somber vigils a year ago today a nineteen year old former student shot his way through a high school in pocklington killing seventeen people as were other shootings americans were gripped by shock and grief but this time the response was different as students at the high school launched a group called march for our lives with the aim of tightening america's gun laws. 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. order. years ago. grief lost friends and siblings quickly turned into activism

was was was only six weeks after the pumpkin 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. a learn to 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 on as one of the main voices of the protest. in 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 arrest fight for your lives before it's someone else's child. b. but the gun lobby soon hit back the national rifle association claim to come pain

was focused rated by gun hating elites and the consol as and fellow activist david hong were accused of being paid actors. and president trump that the n.r.a. is back the solution to school shootings teaches you tell delegates at their annual convention in the wake of the protests there is no sean more inviting to i mare's killer then or sorry that declares this school is a gun free zone come in attack us we were born here on poplin students continue their campaign hoping the tragedy that turned them into activists may help to change america's gun culture. thousands of 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 is this jesus learning 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 elysium at the same time we have to look at today's world with compassion and empathy for those currently facing displacement war and violence but often. in previous years neo nazi groups have tried to instrumental eyes the february thirteenth anniversary by holding political rallies however dressed as residents have managed to block these the last three years. let's look at the berlin film festival now i want a film about lesbian love has been causing controversy not because of its subject matter but because it's being produced by the streaming service netflix which is upset movie theater this despite this release a. true story of two spanish women and that marriage more than one hundred years ago is in the running for the festival's top prize golden bear.

time to shine isabel is one of seven female directors in this year's competition line up. she was joined on the red carpet by actresses natalia and gretel fernandez who played the main characters. when ilesa and marcella meet in a high school in northwestern spain they fall head over heels in love. it's a forbidden love kept secret and. a relationship that the arch catholic and often homophobic population at the end of the one nine hundred centuries doesn't approve of. the movie is controversial not because of its story but because it was produced by the online streaming service netflix cinema owners and distributors fear of financial losses and they want the movie out of the belly nolen line up they say verbally not as

a publicly funded film festival should only promote movies that will be released in cinemas. director is a valid question says her film will be shown in spanish cinemas at least the call for a boycott makes her ingrate. i just wrote the script i try to have financing for ten years and. nobody really really was interested in doing it the culture has to be about respect the outer and and i think saying the film doesn't deserve to be here it's not respecting the author. in the movie the two women clinging to their love with a lisa posing as a man the to get married their union was the first same sex marriage in spain more than one hundred years before marriage equality was legalized based on a true story this could have been a powerful film paying tribute to the l.g. p.t.

communities decades long fight for equal rights. yet the slow and often implausible movie doesn't live up to that promise. and countries around the world are celebrating valentine's day today that they are for love and romance maybe that's why people in mexico city were happy to got free condoms one hundred out by someone dressed as a giant condom of course the days around valentine's day usually see a spike in condom sales of the l.a. based aids healthcare foundation all going to campaign to encourage safe sex. as reminder for our top story at this hour west vice president mike pence has called on america's european allies to pull out of iran nuclear deal was speaking at a conference for the u.s. and israel will push for more aggressive stance against iran. and european aviation giant to add bus so sometimes i think it will scrap it's a three eighty six figures passenger plane the airlines have been buying enough of the crossing to

hold back as much counting more than five hundred passengers. alexei i'll be doubly focused on europe for the look of the migrants who are risking everything to get to britain before the u.k. leaves the company. i'll be back at the top of the.

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not thinking about the dead well i guess sometimes i am. but they stand up things which are the result of mistakes deep into the german culture looking at the stereotype that if you have sympathy for the country that i am on. here you can see me taking his grandmother down. it's cold out there. i'm rachel join me from egypt from d.w. post. to. hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe with me lara baba lola we've heard a lot about people leaving britain ahead of bragg's it but there are others willing to risk their lives.