when in the question how much and i will. do to you. this is d. w. news live from berlin harsh words from germany's president for the world superpowers including the us china and russia as he opens the munich security conference frank walters don meyer accuses them of stoking global mistrust and putting national interests over international cooperation also coming up delegates at the conference will focus on the international community's failures in syria

looks at families torn apart by the conflict. going to die and the planes are bombing us to be honest very close as the syrian government offensive against live province intensifies we talked with a syrian refugee camp in germany desperate to get his family out of harm's way. and in soccer you a full bands of manchester city from champions league competition for the next 2 seasons the preaching it's the spending groups will get reactions and look at what's next for the english club. and happy birthday to you tube and we take a look at how far the massive video sharing site has come in all sorts 15 years ago with an elephant a video. i'm

called assman to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome a laundry list of conflicts and uncertainty over the west's role in the world are the topic issues at the munich security conference which kicked off this afternoon nearly 3 dozen heads of states diplomats and top security experts are coming together for the annual gathering in southern germany the west's dwindling influence on global security as even spawn a new term west listener. the who's who of international politics. with plenty to discuss. the german president. spent much of his keynote speech deploring the decline of internationalism and of european unity he had harsh words for russia china and the us. unknowns and the footman that our closest ally the united states of america

under the current administration rejects the idea of an international community. great again great again if necessary also at the expense of maybe. fittingly enough it was a former u.s. secretary of state from another era john kerry who made a plea for reviving international cooperation snow country can solve the problems we face of climate change cyber warfare nuclear challenges extremism disease all of these things require cooperation if we didn't have the united nations we'd have to invent it so people do just stop playing with people's fears protesters gathered outside the hotel where the conference is being held they said social problems and climate change should also be considered major security issues this isn't the. house kind of but i know you cannot exclude

climate protection from the security issue because it's a huge issue. and war is definitely not climate neutral. when i designed the conference continues until sunday with debates over the role of nato and the conflict in syria likely to dominate. the chief political correspondent melinda crane is in unix for us. in this address the german president's was highly critical of the big powers we're talking about china russia the united states tell us more what exactly did the german president. well as mentioned in your report he essentially accused them of putting national interests 1st of prioritizing their own perceived needs undermining international institutions and international rules and norms and thereby making the world as a whole less secure he said that when we come to the point that countries

see their interests in terms of a 0 sum game meaning their strength is others' weakness and vice versa that in the end we will be unable to solve the pressing problems that the world faces as a whole problems ranging from nuclear escalation and essentially the decline of the architecture of international arms control and climate change he said very clearly and many speakers have echoed his words following his address that we absolutely must have multilateral initiatives to address these problems and many more besides one of these speeches are one thing but typically the real business happening in a place like the munich security conference takes place offstage behind the scenes what has been going on there behind the curtain. i think there's business on both both sides both on and off the stage tomorrow for example we're

going to hear to be hearing from the french president with his push for stronger nuclear arms control and i think that will certainly be something that will also create some dynamic but beyond that off stage absolutely right there are a wide range of bilateral meetings here because this does bring together so many national and world leaders and just one example of that today on the sidelines of the conference the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of the u.s. secretary of defense mark and the afghan president gandhi met and agreed on what's being called a one week long reduction of violence agreement now as you know the u.s. and the taliban have been carrying on negotiations for some time with the aim of eventually getting a framework during in which the u.s. can begin to withdraw its forces but the afghan government hasn't been party to

those negotiations it had said that it's precondition for an all afghan agreement that could to set the stage for a peace process and then for eventual u.s. withdrawal is exactly this this reduction of violence where the taliban will commit to showing for one week 7 days that it is able to reduce violence across the board and apparently specifying roadside bombs direct attacks attacks by its proxies that it will commit to that and thereby. essentially create a precondition under which the afghan agreement might be willing to sit down with the taliban so certainly that is movement and that happened right here on the sidelines in munich melinda we saw a clip from a climate activist a young climate activist one of our climate security what's the discussion like at the conference about climate. well i have to say after 20 years attending the

munich security conference i'm hearing talk about climate insecurity about that nexus between the climate crisis and insecurity in the form of migration insecurity in the form of massive population displacement and insecurity in the form of conflicts that are fed by drought and poverty that i'm hearing more talk about than ever before and in fact tomorrow i will be moderating in mainstage panel on exactly that issue we're also though hearing many people saying that if we don't get stronger multilateral cooperation we will not be able to address climate insecurity and certainly one of the key u.s. speakers here didn't have much to offer in the way of hope about whether the u.s. would at any stage return to the paris climate agreement that is certainly one of the big topics and one of the big driving factors behind many of those global problems chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you very much. the

syrian government offensive in the provinces leading to a growing number of refugees people are trying to get out of adlib they are heading for the nearby turkish border the u.n. estimates that 140000 people have fled their homes in the last 3 days germany is already home to hundreds of thousands of syrians who've fled the conflict over the last 9 years. and those with family members still stuck in the war zone feel powerless to protect the one man who fled syria in 2013 hoping that his family would soon follow but now nearly 7 years later that hope has proved wrong. deep checks the news from syria on social media all the time where did the latest bomb fall who or what was hit while he is in safety here in germany the rest of his family are in mortal danger and if. he is desperately worried.

whenever i meet or drink i think of my children do they have anything to eat do they have a warm blanket or. his sons mohammad and 9 and 10 years old he had to leave them with their grandparents and if he thought it too dangerous to flee with them if the internet is working he calls them several times a day or a little. while you know what's going on. it's cold the bombing and the plane crashed we were where we were. very narrow a village get us out of here. come and get us. well i want to but i can't we need to get passports for you and lots of other things i can bring you over here. we're going to die the planes are bombing us the

army is very close. to. the only adult member of the family social his face. people are suffering especially the refugees it's chaos i don't know whether i'm coming or going. everybody is heading north camping in the olive groves sleeping in the open i'm protected even though it's bitterly cold. the united nations estimates that more than $700000.00 people from it to profit and stuff left their homes many are heading towards turkey but they're not being allowed in the refugee camps are overcrowded it's freezing and there's a lack of drinking water and food there is no going back for them because most of their towns and cities are being bombed out and they are facing a humanitarian situation this is why an immediate ceasefire and it's why is the

only solution going forward. but there's no sign of that and the fighting continues to come would do anything he could to rescue his children from danger but he can't all he can do is follow events from berlin. nobody notices people see me and think i'm doing fine but inside i die a 1000 deaths every day and my heart goes out to my children and to all the other children. yes emotional situation for those watching what's happening in look from a foreign for those on the ground as well and for that part of the story let's bring in david swanson he is the u.n. regional spokesperson for the syria crisis he joins us from turkey now the u.n. says more than $140000.00 syrians have been displaced that's just in the last 3 days by violence is there anywhere safe for those people to go well tragically

the number of people displaced continues to spiral out of control as we speak with thousands of people on the move right now the poor highway area and the m it which is largely empty out of its population along with the m 4 area in which communities have largely emptied their you now have this a large wave of people moving northward into a very small shrinking area of land which for protection purposes are they being led across that border or is there anywhere for them to leave can they leave syria . no at the moment they are being pushed into a very small enclave in the area where assistance is limited and protection is limited i mean we now have one of the most densely populated areas in syria all this in shrouded in more zone in which artillery shelling and air strikes continue

as we speak david given what you've just said i mean is this shaping up to be one of the worst humanitarian crises of this 9 year conflict. absolutely i mean already we have a 1000000 the number of people displaced this particular wave of displacement is without doubt the largest individual displaced that we've had. since the very beginning of this crisis which is almost 9 years old so i'm really really saddened by the international in action in bringing this conflict to an end as humanitarians we are desperately trying to provide assistance to the people in syria there are more than 3000000 people in it live right now and there are urgent need of protection and humanitarian assistance tell me about those 3000000 people i mean our people of course that that either choose to stay or cannot leave and live what

are their living conditions like. well i think what's important for viewers to understand is up until now whenever the syrian government forces took over an area people were evacuated to it live and in live today is the last opposition held area in billable for people to flee to there's no place else this is the end of the road and that's why what's happening in england today is so important and comes at such a critical time you know it is bitter cold temperatures right now we have people in women and children shivering at night fleeing for safety not knowing where to go i mean the only way of describing it is it is a crisis within a crisis i mean the situation is going from bad to worse a crisis within a crisis david swanson the u.n. regional spokesperson for syria thank you very much for the perspective. our here's

a check now of some of the other stories making headlines around the world thousands have taken to the streets of algeria marking one year since their protest movement began demonstrators have marched every friday since last february in that time they forced the president to resign and seen dozens of leading figures arrested by the protesters say they will not stop because much of the old ruling elite remains in place. china says more than 700 of its medical staff are infected with the coronavirus raising questions about how the country will continue battling the outbreak the number of infections in china has jumped more than 55000 the virus has now also reached africa with egypt's reporting its 1st case. u.s. attorney general william barr has taken anywhere public swipe at president donald trump are told us television the trumps tweets are making his job impossible after the president tweeted praise for his handling of a case involving a former advisor trump responded to bars criticism tweeting that he has the legal

right to interfere in criminal cases. today's climate activist gratitude berg has praised young people for keeping up their protests but her valentine's day message for older generations was less friendly accusing them of mouthing empty words and not taking the climate crisis seriously she was attending her 1st fridays for future protests in her home country of sweden since last may. the police here in germany have detained 12 men following a series of raids targeting members of a far right network the men are suspected of planning attacks on politicians asylum seekers and muslims. this morning investigators raided this house near oxburgh as well as 12 other locations in 6 german states the federal prosecutor's office has accused 5 men of forming a right wing terrorist group 8 others are accused of providing them with support on friday afternoon the federal prosecutor ordered the detention of 12 of the men they

allegedly exchanged information in chat groups. according to our information in these chat groups they discussed killing a politician or carrying out an attack on a mosque but the plans were not concrete they did not state names and locations where the attacks would be carried out. on the interior minister of north rhine-westphalia said one of the men charged was a civil servant in his state the man was immediately suspended. anyone who has anything to do with this should know that our intelligence agencies are on their trail there's nowhere these people can feel safe not even on the internet oh internet the 12 suspects are to be brought before a judge at germany's high court on saturday the judge will then decide whether or not to issue arrest warrants. are in sports now and european football's governing body wafer has banned english side manchester city from champions league

competition for the next 2 seasons as because of quote serious financial fair play breaches waif a certain a pretty in a statement premier league champions manchester city who. were found guilty of having falsely inflated their sponsorship revenues also find a man city $30000000.00 euros the club says it will appeal the decision. i join in studio now is max merrill with sports max i mean walk us through this what exactly did manchester city do wrong well they fall and fall of financial fair play rulings which were introduced by the way for back in 2011 have been completely unfolds over time if you ask me basically it's set up to prevent spending more than clubs so that's meant to secure long term investment we've seen a lot of 1000000000 is invest into football clubs over the past decades and also

designed to encourage. rather dampen player wage inflation which we've seen quite a lot of as well now manchester city's owner is shake monsoor who's part of the abu dhabi ruling family and he has ploughed literally billions into this club and one thing that you mentioned there is that they falsified their sponsorship revenue now what happened last year to speak to the german magazine honest the so-called football leagues and among them were emails which for instance detailed that the sponsorship deal with etsy had. ways of $67000000.00 pounds per year ok actually $57000000.00 of that was being paid by shaikh mungo himself his company so there was already a little bit of it all came out in these these e-mails that were leaked exactly and so but city have really been flouting these rules since the beginning in 20122013 they exceeded the permitted losses now 45000000 pounds is permitted over 2 seasons they posted losses of 180000000 losses in that period they will find out the time

and had some squad restrictions in european competitions but it was a fairly lenient settlement this is a lot what surprises you more here that the manchester city was caught so mean you you said this evidence was out there in emails or that you waif actually implemented these rules and they did so in a strict way well it's actually. surprising that your wife of acted the way they have i for one think that in many cases your wife or have been very hesitant if we talk about racism in football tackling that transfer bans and also financial fair play regulations they really have been quite has it and then they have been. not really tended to go off to the big clubs and that's a huge problem when you want to prevent these kind of things happening and in those leaked e-mails that we've been talking about one thing that came out as well was that the city chairman khaldoon al mubarak a few years ago had proposed supposedly told johnny infantino then the u.s.

general secretary now fifa general secretary that he would rather spend 30000000 on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue your way for over the next 10 years than pay any fines now they paid their last fine but they said they were going to appeal this decision for $3.00 max about that appeal any chances they'll be successful well i think what they might be successful in doing is moving this decision further along so what's happening now is they can rebound from european competition the next season and the following season clubs like chelsea boss alone and ryall have gone to the court of arbitration of sport and managed to prolong these decisions will move them into the future ok interesting stuff there in the world of football max merrill with sports thank you. all too different kind of scandal now the entire leadership of the french film academy has quit over a controversy involving disgraced filmmaker roman polanski his newest film received

several nominations for the academy's upcoming says' are awards the french polish director fled from the u.s. after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a teenager in the late 1970 s. they're going to do going to the other. film about alfred carey for a jewish french officer unfairly accused of spying for germany in the 890 s. has been well received by critics. it picked up the grand jury prize at last year's venice film festival and it topped the french box office for a while. but screenings in france were also met with widespread protests the outrage intensified in january when the cesar academy and the outs that the film lead the nominations the academy initially defended its actions saying it could not be expected to take a moral stance. that polanski fled the

u.s. to avoid imprisonment after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13 year old girl in 1978 and in november $2900.00 french actress valentyn manye allege that polanski rapes her in 1985 when she was 18 and accusation he has denied . for the time being the nominations for an officer and a spy remain in place. and he says on board will be selected after the awards ceremony which takes place on february 28th. well today marks 15 years since you tube was born the site was set up by 3 former colleagues of paper how to give people a place to share clips online and while they've done that a decade and a half and countless kathy rio's later accounts over $1500000000.00 monthly users and netted $15000000000.00 in ad revenues last year here's

a look back at how it all began. here are. really. really. few chips very 1st video could scarcely have been simpler during his trip to the zoo co-founder jahvid karim had no idea what his primitive creation would become just a year later he and his friends chad hurley and steve chen would be striking the deal of a lifetime this worth it to keep it we have. been acquired by google banks are now less than $1650000000.00 since being bought by the world's most visited web site you tube itself has become the world's 2nd most visited web site. and it's not just job chad and steve who it's made rich has created

a whole new brand of celebrity the most successful you tube is such as hyperactive sweet purity probably make in excess of $10000000.00 a year. over the past 15 years you tube has become more than just somewhere to share videos branching out into music and subscription services and never 70 languages now you tube is country using $15000000000.00 a year in ad revenue to owners google out for that if you told the founders that that would be the case back in early days they might well have nothing to do. about it. well in case you haven't noticed today is valentine's day and in thailand more than 20 couples marked the occasion i'm getting married aboard hot air balloons under as of people turned out to watch the lovebirds receive their marriage certificates and then take to the skies as newlyweds the weddings are part

of a balloon love festival in chiang rai so if you fancy starting your married life on a high you should know that organizers are hoping for more participants next year. are minor now the top story that we're following for you this hour the munich security conference has opened with a warning from the german president frank walter steinmeier told world leaders that a lack of unity in the west is fueling global insecurity. watching the news i'm carl asked and after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day we'll be looking at antarctica and why global leaders meeting in munich say the climate crisis is also a security crisis thank you for that.

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