roger. you are. a w. this is d w news live from berlin allies heading in different directions germany's chancellor angela merkel calls from war multilateralism and warns that international political structures are falling apart but it u.s. vice president mike pence chives his ally 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 chinese artist ai wei wei tells us it was not just because of the claim technical problems. a warm welcome to the program i'm marrying i haven't seen two allies but heading in different directions well that's how it looks after contrasting speeches by germany's chancellor angela merkel and the us vice president mike pence at the munich security conference merkel made a plea for multilateralism for nations to work together for security but paris criticized the united states' closest allies accusing the europeans of undermining sanctions against iran here's some of what they said beginning with chancellor merkel. markham's multilateralism 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 . the in the. time has come. for all of us to. 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. and joining us

now from the munich security conference is william burns he's president of the carnegie endowment for international peace and also a former u.s. ambassador to russia ambassador burns thank you for joining us so we heard quite a stark contrast in the speeches by german chancellor merkel and vice president pence earlier today but are the divisions as entrenched behind the scenes as they appear to be in munich today. or the first thing i have to tell you is that i'm not william burns i'm nick burns i'm a different burns we're here in our good friends but i'm a professor at the harvard kennedy school i've been here in munich for the last several days and have come every year for a long time the differences between the united states government the trump administration and the german government and the european union are quite severe right now i thought it was a mistake frankly for vice president pence to ask the european union to give up on the nuclear deal with iran that the european union helped to negotiate and i don't

think the european union is going to do that we saw obviously a profound difference over nato where the german chancellor angela merkel gave a compelling speech and electrifying speech where she defended nato and defended the u.s. the europe relationship i actually thought the speech that mirrored and and many ways was. in sync with chancellor merkel speech was a speech given by our former vice president joe biden who just spoke in the last hour here in munchen and he gave a ringing endorsement of nato and of our return of the united states to his leadership position. well meanwhile the u.s. vice president pence used his speech also to criticize germany once again over the north trying to pipeline that will bring russian gas to germany but do you think these u.s. concerns are really about global security and dependence on russia or does it perhaps have more to do with the u.s.

wanting to sell its own liquefied natural gas to germany. you know i think to be fair to the trump administration in the united states going all the way back to the reagan administration has been advising german governments the european governments not to have an excessive reliance on russian supplied energy natural gas and oil and so this idea of a pipeline stream too is very much opposed by most people in the united states by in both of our big political parties i don't think that's the most severe disagreement we have the most severe disagreement is the fact that president trump has branded the european union as a competitor as a foe of the united states of course it's not that the great majority of american support the european union but the trump of ministration has been extremely critical of the e.u. extremely critical of our great friend chancellor angela merkel and critical of nato and so i think that's the deficit that really matters the division between the

united states and europe well it's not just that the u.s. is critical of the european union we also saw hands calling on individual european states to side with the u.s. and against germany when it came to north stream two are we seeing the u.s. trying to drive a wedge between individua. in european states. i don't think that will work i think germany and the european countries are united on most of these issues i also i would say this i think what we what i learned as a diplomat especially in dealing with our great friends here in and in germany and in europe is if you have a disagreement it's best to have that disagreement in private and not to have it in public because friends don't do that to each other so i do think that repeated instances where the trumpet ministration has been giving a lot of public advice to the europeans is not going to work very well better to have that private conversation and in public we need to be supportive of each other

because we're allies and i think that's the kind of american policy that we need and that's why i very much oppose the policies of the trump administration all right nicholas burns speaking to us from the munich security conference we appreciate all your insights. doctors and thank doctors. well you can also watch the live stream of all the speeches and discussions in the conference room of the new nick security conference just go to our website that's daily dot com. all right let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump has declared a national emergency in order to free up funds to build a wall along the mexican border house speaker nancy pelosi called the move an abuse of power the standoff over the walls funding led to the longest government shutdown in history. nigeria's independent electoral commission postponed today's

presidential vote just hours before polls were due to open the two leading candidates condemned the decision and blamed each other for the delay voting is now due to trade take place next saturday. well today is the big day at 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 berlin all started there were seventeen movies in competition by the chinese film one second by director jang was pulled 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 cultural revolution was too 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 targeting called problem states under his films outside china have always have very severe censorship so 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 to to pass since rules of censorship well this film in particular was directed by chang you know and way we know he's considered to be china's official film maker he was even interested with the beijing olympics opening ceremony so what does it mean if this director of all people ends up being censored yes that's another sin was cannot

understand this he same's us a favor of the times government but they don't want the government to when i'm away they always use you as a weapon so if it's not good enough and you can drop your 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 cultural often but force the student movement and the many many. wrongdoings they did you know when they crush the stewards and you cannot even mention the words 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 at nine hundred forty s. when communist party started dealing with the intellectuals in time now 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 right cards industry they always tell me is much tighter now though which reflects the have no confidence the situation's fragile and they cannot take and you kind of mistake and yet this year at the berlin on 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 got no. for the film has to go through like two years of heavy meetings and corrections it's almost a very exhausting makeup and you've filmmakers philos. feel sorry about this profession and this and all the various strong signal to young filmmakers you know how can they survive is almost impossible to survive in times film in 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 passes the censorship is they couldn't send this email did to write 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 with 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 win the golden bear it was still one. release. dealing with where were people you know those concentration camps and to bad people and on the list numbers of lawyers and humorous defenders has been put in jail is not possible and the english reflects whole

western institutions work in ways to censorship and trying to to find who bottle the two to make of 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 would go out and find other ways of watching this film i think the film is film it deserves our freedom annie annie artworks deserves freedom so awards should not really should it really reflects the. freedom offered expression and should against the censorship in that case today globally the all big film industries in the west the film festivals doesn't do the good job. i way way

artist and activist from china thank you so much for coming into our studio and sharing all your insights with us thank you we appreciate it thank you very much. you're watching the news coming to you from berlin coming up after a short break as our documentary truth detective goal is to teams play each other in the one that gets closest to the house gets two points and the closest to the stone one point of them is how the house is the one block yes it's a wooden block or it's called a bottom you play around it and whoever has the most points away was the one. with . a disappears the road goes well if you start the ball in the soup dealt. with the combat so be.

it about three hours freestyle but it's all right to go. well but very encouraging is not so easy but it sure is fun. coming up next a very special tip for a trip to munich them from work palace it's considered to be one of europe's most impressive castles for a long time it served as a summer residence of the vittles but dynasty and today it's one of the city's favorite tourist destinations. back in the seventeenth century the site of one of europe's largest palaces was just farmland. veteran and maria elector of the very i wanted to give his wife henrietta adelaide ups a boy a very special gift. she had given to him a long sought after heir. maximillian emmanuel. construction of the palace

began in sixteen sixty four. the first building pleasure palace known from bog was finished in sixteen seventy nine and it. is relatively modest preselector maximillian a man who well would go on to expand the site to its current size. for the park he took land from farmers and had a canal dug for the courtly gondola trips. his subjects' had to stay outside. today it's different of course the palace has been in public hands for a century. it was partially renovated for its three hundred fifty year anniversary including maximillian emanuel's room. but it looks different today. that's not how it was here. was the beloved summer home of

all of the various rulers it was used regularly lived in and therefore it changed the size so we can go from a rock to late the rock style and onto the classical rooms of the bavarian rulers. still true to the original is the room where the second was born in eighteen forty five. he's known as the very tail king. from the parking lot visitors today can take a gondola to the palace just like the various royalty from centuries past. now let's get out of munich as promised away from the city and into the countryside

. telling us because they want to get to the mountains it's just sixty kilometers away and easily. reachable by train. and just an hour i'm at the alpine fun hell's. enough time to have a look at your travel experience as the videos you send are really great thanks for sharing them with us. this week some e-mail comes from a nurse rising you traveled around him instead of raw just on and send us amazing footage of fire eaters temples and dancers a cultural explosion as you told us and we're excited to be able to share it with you and our.

langley's is at the entrance to the alps historically home to raftsmen and farmers other than farming it's tourism that brings in the money here the area is full of old farmhouses and classic inns. the road saying jacobs church stands at the center. it's really pretty here but more than anything i want to hit the slopes this time and not to.