this is d.w. news live from berlin allies heading in different directions germany's chancellor angela merkel calls for more multilateralism and warns that international political structures are falling apart but u.s. vice president by pence charts his allies for not supporting the u.s. on iran also coming up. it's prize giving day at the berlin film festival but this chinese film was pulled from the competition in an exclusive interview exiled artist i way way tells us it wasn't just because of the claim

technical problems. thanks for joining us i'm mary and i haven't seen the two allies but heading in different directions that's how it looks after contrasting speeches by germany's chancellor angela merkel and the u.s. vice president mike pence at the munich security conference merkel made a plea for multilateralism for nations to work together for security but pence criticize the united states' closest allies accusing the europeans of undermining sanctions against iran here's what they said with merkel first. marcum pre-modern lateralus it may be complicated but it's better than staying home alone and i think that's exactly the right answer to the motto of this conference the great puzzle who will pick up the pieces only all of us together via susan.

thank the in the. time has come. for all of us. the time has come for our european partners to stop undermining u.s. sanctions against this murderous revolutionary regime the time has come for our european partners to stand with us and with the iranian people our allies and friends in the region the time has come for our european partners to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and join us as we bring the economic and diplomatic pressure necessary to give the iranian people the region and the world the peace security and freedom they deserve. well for more on the munich security conference i'm joined in the studio by rough elbow song from the international german institute for strategic and international studies rafael thank

you so much for being here so we just heard some very critical words from the u.s. vice president you could even call them confrontational he's chastising the europeans for not being tough enough on the run for not spending enough on defense and also for cooperating with russia on the north korean to pipeline project so are we seeing a further breakdown of transatlantic relations is there any way to bridge all of these differences well judging by the penn speech alone there was indeed very little to go on and to see any room for compromise many commentators are focusing on the fact that the u.s. the geisha is very large including many other congressmen and democrats and there will be it will biden on so many will hear of the tones from the outside but from the administration from the trumpet white house i think it's very hard and merkel in her speech before tried to open some room for compromise but there was no reciprocity on that well indeed merkel's speech had

a very different tone and she said there was agreement on the need to put iran under pressure but she just said there were some differences over the means how did markel defend the european powers decision. to stand by the iran nuclear deal while the political situation is very complex i mean the very simple argument she made this is the last remaining even if it's faulty but last remaining tool of influence that we have over the regime and if we cut but then there was nothing left void of further escalation the calculation of the trauma of the situation is different. but i think also there is a call with the charm of ministration to say that the europeans are really undermining the sanctions is also too strong europeans are having a different mechanism to cooperate but it's really not the case that there was be full economic cooperation with iran merkel also focused on the importance of nuclear disarmament she talked about how now that russia and the u.s. have pulled out of the i next treaty she is urging china to join in disarmament efforts could this possibly help save the i.m.f.

treaty well that was a surprising rules but also in a way a smart argument because many people have been saying russia is also one of the reason why russia has been violating the treaty is not only because the u.s. but also other nuclear powers including china the china response where there was much more guarded saying well yes we're for a unit for as ational north korea traditional policy in general disarmament but nobody not ready to engage in talks on the i.n.f. treaty or making for the multilateral so that was unfortunately not taken up all right rafael best song from the german institute for strategic and international studies thank you so much for all of your insights well you can also watch the live stream of all the speeches and discussions in the conference room of the munich security conference that's on our website just go to w dot com. now since fourth news and former n.f.l.

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a t.v. commercial seem to have come true. well today is the big day the berlin international film festival the bears are being handed out in just a few hours and sixteen films are in the running when the sixty nine dollars started there were seventeen movies in competition by the chinese film one second by director chang the moment was full on monday the official reason given was technical problems in post production but inevitably there have been accusations that the film fell foul of chinese censors because of its coverage of the contribution was to political. well to talk about all this i'm joined now in the studio by i way way he's a chinese contemporary artist and activist welcome to our program thank you so much for being here so the first question that i have for you is quite obviously if you

believe the official line that it was technical problems which were behind the reason for this film being pulled from competition obviously it's not there's no such thing as a technical problem one stays under his films outside china have always have a very severe censorship so it's censorship is exhausted streams of western human cannot understand that it can be a one line or just one one one shot or take directors for years to pass and through those censorship well this film in particular was directed by chang you know and we know he's considered to be china's official film maker he was even intrusted with the beijing olympics opening ceremony so what does that mean if this director of all people ends up being censored yes doesn't know this and was not handstands he same's favor of the trans government but they don't want the

government to win nine percent that way they always use you know as a weapon so if it's not good enough for the country i knew movement all right well the film one second which was being was which was polled is said during china's cultural revolution why would this topic be taboo for chinese censors china have so the party has two men ten its own course so called true lucian has being seen as a taboo because they don't want to criticize. shuji huge disaster so china not only cover up courtroom lutheran but german force the students movement and the many many wrong to. did you know when they crushed the stewards and you cannot even mention the words from force to force in time. is your do you have a perception that censorship in china of artists of creative people is becoming worse

or has it been more or less at this level for decades i think the census a shape start of the one nine hundred forty s. when communist party started dealing with the intellectuals in china they have a very steady policy from time to time sometimes solutions sometimes that are more tighter and according to my friends in film industry on the in writers' industry they always tell me is much tighter now though which reflects the have no confidence the situation's fragile and they cannot take any kind of mistake and yet this year at the berlin wall there were three chinese films in competition they were somewhat politically controversial all of them could it be that these films were actually supposed to generate some positive p.r. for china possibly to distract from all of the negative news of china building

a labor camps for the muslim minority but has has backfired i think the film has been here also under very strong censorship or otherwise of good directors they can make a much better films but film by a wonder i cry on the whole. for the film has to go through like two years of heavy meetings and crime has its almost very exhausting makeup and if filmmakers you fellows. feel sorry about this profession and this and all the very strong signal to young filmmakers you know how can they survive is almost impossible to survive the intense filming industry and yet the chinese film so long my son is still in the running it's gotten a lot of very positive attention what is that director doing right then well on whatever past the censorship is they do and they couldn't send this e-mail right

to the party's policy but i since i haven't watched those films i have i cannot tell and if if a chinese film actually ends up winning the golden bear at the berlin wall at least a so long my son seems to have a very good chance of winning would that sort of overshadow the controversy around one second do you think that if this other film wins it will china score its desired p.r. win even if certain ten films all wins golden bear it was still one. earring this whole time dealing with where were people you know those concentration camps and to bad to people and the list numbers of lawyers and humorous defenders has been put in jail is not possible and the english reflects whole west institutions work in ways to censorship and trying to to

you know try and who fall under to to make the situation looks is ok. but do you think that perhaps something good can come out of this with this film being pulled from the berlin nala all of this discussion about it all the speculation that it's because of censorship could this in fact have the opposite effect and that people actually we go out and find other ways of watching this film i think film is film it deserves our freedom i need any artworks deserves freedom so awards should not really should it really reflects the. freedom offered expression i should against the censorship in that case today globally there are all bago film industries in the west the film festivals doesn't do the good job all right i way way artist and activist from china thank you so much for coming in to us to do and

sharing all your insights with us thank you we appreciate it thank you very much. now the acclaimed swiss actor bruno guns has died at the age of seventy seven considered one of the most important contemporary actors of german language cinema his international breakthrough came starring in of inventors nine hundred eighty seven film wings of desire one of his most challenging roles was playing at all for hitler in the oscar nominated film downfall a portrayal he told d.w. had been particularly overwhelming he also starred in numerous international productions. a quick reminder now of our top story. u.s. vice president mike pence has told nato allies that they must do more on defense spending speaking at the munich security conference hence also said that the united

states would keep a strong presence in the middle east. and right before the us president germany's chancellor angela merkel in her speech made a plea for multilateralism and said that disarmament efforts must include the u.s. russia europe and china. they're up to date now on d w thanks for watching. once upon a time there was a young girl with a burning bush. to become a conductor. i was a very curious child very excited and in love with music and i would go to.