load. play. this is d w news is live from dublin ally is on diverging courses as the munich security conference nears its close to german charles i'm the one that called warns against removing the pillars of international political order in a rebuke to the u.s. and u.s. vice president mike pence condemns european allies for not backing washington on iran will be live and be an extra also coming up the most senior catholic cleric to be defrocked in modern times the vatican expelled a full my u.s.

cardinal from the priesthood as a sexual crimes against adults abd children. plus the golden bag goes to his frail director now a battle appears wins the top prize at the international film festival for his drama synonyms about leaving one's homeland will bring you all the berlin not the highlights. i manuscripts mackinnon thank you so much for joining us. the munich security conference which draws to a close today has highlighted the growing divide between germany and the u.s. german chancellor angela merkel spoke at the conference and defended a multilateral approach to global affairs speaking soon afterwards the u.s. vice president mike pence doubled down on the trump administration's criticism of

europe he called on the e.u. to stop undermining u.s. sanctions against what he called iran murderous revolutionary regime. pangle america was not going to mean so words relations between the u.s. and germany have been tense recently and energy policy is one of the points of contention the u.s. criticised north stream to america defended the planned gas pipeline linking russia to germany. the months no one wants to become unilaterally dependent on russia but during the cold war i was still living in east germany and we only got russian gas anyway but the former west germany also imported a lot of its gas from russia and i don't know why the times are supposed to be so much worse now that we don't say russia's still a partner. america also spoke out against threatened us tariffs on german cars trump claims that all too imports are

a threat to national security but marital poing to doubt the german companies also produce cars in america. trumps daughter did not seem impressed. though continued with a passion of police for multilateralism and corporation at the end standing ovations risking communiqué. mike pence didn't even arrive in the auditorium until after american speech he responded to the issue of germany's business links with russia with the threat. we cannot ensure the defense of the west if our allies grow dependent on the east with that the us vice president also criticised over iran. applause for pence was more restrained than it had been for america. but despite the major differences of opinion the two did meet face to face with

a friendly handshake for the photo op at least. ok let's bring in political correspondent simon young his at the security conference in munich hi simon the contrasting priorities between the the u.s. and germany have never been so clear is this the point when germany and europe have to admit that the historic alliance isn't sustainable anymore and that they need to strike a more independent course. well certainly chancellor merkel hasn't got to vax place yet in that speech yesterday that you saw there she was talking trying to answer the question that this conference is posed who will pick up the pieces if the global multilateral system somehow falls apart will her answer at the end very clearly only all of us together can do that and she was talking to this audience of europeans of americans but also chinese are very global perspective that she

presented and she said you know well look at the nuclear missile treaty that the doubts have been raised about you know america the russians are pulling back from that but who picks up the pieces is the europeans so interconnectedness if the united states pulls its troops out of afghanistan other nato allies will be forced to pull out early perhaps as well and they don't want to do that so that the nexus is what she emphasized and she also said you know there's nothing the small country of eighty million people like germany as she described it can do if the economic might of the united states with these powerful dollar or indeed the population weight of a country like china is put against it so to solve the world's problems you need to bring the countries together because some could say well if you if you go too much for compromise it's going to be too difficult to get a deal in this idea of network security in defense terms is also been suggested you

know we need to have a flexible bilateral alliances like the americans want but angela merkel presented this strong vision of a multilateral order and she really said that there is no alternative to that going forward in case there are real focus on working together now obviously there was a lot said about iran as well and the iranian foreign affairs minister will be speaking in munich this morning how is he likely to respond to the heated discussions over iran at the conference. yeah it will be interesting to see if he directly responds to those comments by the u.s. vice president yesterday might pence saying that you know more pressure needs to be put on the urania and the americans want to follow the route of economic sanctions really turning up the heat and he called on the europeans to stop undermining as he put it u.s. efforts to get iran to be compliant we've been in the in only its nuclear

ambitions chancellor merkel said well we share that goal but we want to use the iran deal that we've agreed with other partners to do exactly the same thing so it'll be interesting to see if the iranian foreign minister refers to that or whether he prefers to sort of drive a wedge between us and american positions that discussion between parents and medical after their speeches was described as frank by the american side of thing that's code for not all that friendly or productive all right they don't have political correspondent simon young and new nick thank you so much. pope francis has expelled the former u.s. cardinal theodore mccarrick from the priesthood and then came after vasquez officials found him guilty of sexual abuse against both adults and minus a character is the highest ranking catholic cleric to receive the sanction in modern times in outspent was made just days before the pope hosts

a church summit on preventing child abuse. the punishment handed down to this american cleric is unprecedented the former archbishop of washington theodore mccarrick soliciting sex from aspiring priests and abused at least two minors between one thousand nine hundred ninety and one nine hundred ninety. he had already been stripped of his status as a cardinal last july in itself a bombshell for the church father bad harken caught the vatican you say the move is a good thing. is that there are churches law is quite clear in this regard the problem in the past was that it wasn't applied the issue was covered up people look the other way now it's simply gone through official channels with a very prominent figure it's not a papal decision but it really should be. the. last summer pope francis ordered an investigation into mccarrick the vatican reached its verdict on january eleventh

mccarrick subpoenas were rejected beginning this thursday leaders of bishops conferences from around the world will meet with pope francis for four days in rome on the agenda abuse in the catholic church and how to protect children critics accuse the pope of doing too little too late in dealing with allegations of abuse victim to charge the battery can with not paying enough attention to their claims. this was acts of bruno god has died at the age of seventy seven he was known as one of the most important axes in german language cinema made his international breakthrough starring in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven movie wings of desire but recession and one of his most challenging roles was playing in the oscar nominated film down he called up before month a particularly overwhelming task also started numerous international productions including night train to lisbon and the button thriller. for.

now the international film festivals awards ceremony paid tribute to guns as the festival rounded out yesterday evening this is ten day event featured hundreds of movies israeli director. one the festival's top award the golden bear for his film synonyms. the golden bear for best film ghost two soon enough to have dad left. soon and then was directed by peter tells the story of an israeli man who moved to paris to escape the politics of his home country and discovers a whole new world of trouble for the film as a personal project. the silver bearer for best director went to germany. before i was at home but about the return of a prodigal teenager. best male lead in best female lead went to wearing jeans on

and young made the stars of so long my son a chinese film that was also a favorite for the golden bear but controversy over another chinese film had threatened to overshadow the festival. we as members of the international jury at the very early regret that we were not able to consider one of the film selected to compete this year. that film is one second one second deals with the chinese cultural revolution it was pulled from competition officially due to technical difficulties but many suspected fell foul of chinese government censors charlotte sells some pill and scott roxboro have been following the festival the better know it's made its name as the most political of the festivals this year the jury went as far as to say they were looking for in these where the personal collides with the political and that was in evidence with all the films that won this year and i think it's a real tribute to the rector peter costello who said his goal in running this

festival was to make the berlin carpet a place for political statements not for taking selfies the jury had a fond farewell for a cost look who's directed the belinelli for eighteen years. we have and will surprise you thank you. thank you thank you and then as the festival wrapped up it was time for khosla to join the winners one last time. our time for a quick look at saturday's bundesliga and stuck out all having a dreadful things on the step down the bottom in dire need of points but against top four sides like it was not meant to be even though there was a new face on the bench to help save the saints. she got well hoping that

new sporting director thomas hitzlsperger would be the lucky charm against light sake but the home fans were disappointed just six minutes in use of pals and scoring his eleventh of the season with a whole lot of help from a calamitous took up defense. but in contrast to last weekend's three no loss they should fight to get back into the game a careless handball from video bomb spotted by the v.a.r. gave stevens the chance to convert from the spot. his first goal since joining on loan in january. at the break hitzlsperger had reason to be hopeful that fit and passion were clearly on display in the second half they had the first big chance some shall go ask a c. about thwarted by an excellent peter kulash he saved. instead it was light sick with the luck paulsen pulled his opponent down but was

awarded a foul in his favor the resulting free kick converted excellently by muscles to one light sick with a big helping hand from the referee. around fifteen minutes from full time leipsic sealed the away when you sort of pulse and scoring his fifth brace of the campaign to make it three one it's the fiftieth goal still got sleepy defense has conceded this season. and some just the boys showed fight and discipline but that was a mission to keep the shank and they did that for most of the game but in possession they moved the ball up the pitch quickly and so lots of positives the days of an a but it seems for now coach michael finds hill will remain in his job alongside hitzlsperger despite a run of six losses in seven games. a quick reminder you can always get news on the go just download from google play or from the apple stole that will give you access to all the latest news. from around the world as well as

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