infantile and tom green. have fun n.p.r. news starts february 28th w. . this is news live from berlin cost words from germany's president for the world's superpower. frank found the accuses the us russia and china of stoking global mistrust and putting narrow national interests of international cooperation also coming up the u.n. wants of a humanitarian crisis as the fighting in northern syria intensifies the looks of

families torn apart by the conflict. that's going to die in the planes up on maintenance the army is very close we hear from one syrian refugee in germany who's desperate to get his family to safety. and english the giants manchester united manchester city fined 30000000 euros and banned from europe's champions league the 2 seasons city was found guilty of breaching spending for years. i'm anthony howard thanks for joining me a laundry list of conflicts and uncertainty over the west's role in the world the dominating the meaning security conference some 3 dozen heads of state diplomats and security experts have gathered in southern germany the west's dwindling influence on global security has even spawned a new target lists. the who's who of international

politics. with plenty to discuss. the german president frank steinmeyer 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. and the been 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 no 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 a united nations we'd have to invent it so people need to 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 i said jesus and nothing. else 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. mistreatment i designed the conference continues until sunday with debates over the role of nato and the conflict in syria likely to dominate. the german president's words fell on mostly receptive ears with numerous participants bemoaning the decline of cohesion within the transatlantic community

a decline for which the organizers of the security conference even coined a new term west meaning the lack of will or ability on the part of north america and europe to promote complex multilateral solutions to difficult problems amongst those problems climate change and nuclear proliferation came in for the most frequent mention but few participants held out hope of a new initiative to revive cooperation on either ultimately it may be the bilateral meetings on the sidelines of this. conference that deliver more in the way of results for example a reduction of violence agreement that was affirmed here today after a meeting between the u.s. secretary of state the u.s. secretary of defense and the president of afghanistan if the taliban can prove that they are able to reduce the violence over 70 years time then the afghan government

says it is willing to sit down for peace talks that could pave the way for a drawdown of u.s. troops that's it for day one of the munich security conference i'm willing to create. the united nations is warning of a growing humanitarian crisis as the conflict in northern syria intensifies the syrian government has stepped up its offensive on the last rebel stronghold in the province more than 140000 fled their homes in recent days most heading for the nearby turkish border thousands of syrians have left the region altogether and traveled to germany we met one man who arrived here 7 years ago hoping his family would soon follow still left behind. checks the news from syria on social media all the time where did the latest bomb fall who or what was hit while he's in safety here in germany the rest of his family in mortal children

do they have anything to eat do they have a warm blanket or. his sons mohammed and 9 and 10 years old he had to leave them with their grandparents and he thought it too dangerous to flee with them if the internet is working he calls them several times a day or a little hello how moody or how well you know what's going on. it's cold that bombing and the plane crashed where you are where we were. very narrow village get us out of here. come and get us. 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.

the only adult member of the family says show 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 unprotected even though it's bitterly cold. the united nations estimates that more than $700000.00 people from it to profit fled 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 in their humanitarian situation this is why an immediate cease fire. 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. already we have 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 really really saddened by the international in action in bringing this conflict to an end as humanitarians were 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 police here in germany have to times 12 men following a series of raids targeting members of a book the men suspected of planning attacks on politicians asylum seekers and muslims this morning investigators raided this house near berg 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. for months 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 given. 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 kido did anyone who has anything to do with this should know that our intelligence agencies are on their trail there is no where these people can feel safe not even on the internet. 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 to sports now in european football's governing bodies your wife has banned in cliffside manchester city from champions league competition for the next 2 seasons that's because of quote serious financial fair play breaches wife a said in a statement premier league champions manchester city were coached by. were found to have falsely inflated their sponsorship revenues he wife or rather have also found man city $13000000.00 euros the club says it will appeal against the decision.

or joining in the studio's debuts had a clever have a what is it now that manchester city are alleged to have done they fundamentally spent loads loads more money than they should have done it is complicated because there are rules these financial fair play rules that are supposed to limit how much of a loss each club is allowed to make but we have a specific situation with manchester city where the owner is shake monsoor from the abu dhabi ruling family and he's just poor billions of pounds into the city into manchester city and that has made the finances of the club very uneven he's put loads of money and bought expensive players paid them lots of money and didn't have it seems like didn't have enough of a sponsorship deal to offset the losses so the club made far too much of

a large loss making the whole place really unstable so these you have a financial flair fair play rules is this not exactly what they introduced it is exactly why they were introduced they were introduced to control or to try to control this billionaire kind of you know play boys who buy themselves a football club for fun and want to go and win a big trophy and yet may not have the same kind of emotional attachment to these clubs that generations of fans might have and so my not wanting actually to think about long term investment rather than you know make a splash with loads of cash basically so if you're a cynical football fan like me you might think this is going on all over the place why is it all blowing up now with manchester city whether it's going on all over the place or not i'm not in a position to. but emails were leaked last year basically there was a great big cache a data dump of emails relating to football relating specifically also to manchester

city and that showed that this offset of finances. that had been supposedly happening with it with a massive sponsorship deal by actually had allied airline also an average of the company that was actually not to this massive amount of money i think 67000000 pounds a year supposedly the sponsorship wasn't coming from the airline but most of it was actually coming from shaken and swiss family for so looks like there was a bit of a dodgy dealing going on in terms of where the money was coming from in order to offset this massive flux of money from the shakes investments into the club those emails were leaked and there is a man currently in prison awaiting trial for alleged hacking of those emails so whether that will actually play into warehouse to take him is another question but much of the city has been breaking the rules from the get go i when these financial

fair play rules for 2011 so they know that the whole thing now goes to a tradition and. sport in switzerland manchester city say they can appeal we might have a ways to go and a club or thank you very much. in the bonus league is friday is not dortmund dominating for their victory against frankfurt moving up a 2nd place in the table that are in the final look just got the party started with just over half an hour gone. and judging sanchez it's not a guy who's on golden boy early in holland then set a record but nothing is goal in his 1st 5 bundesliga just a few minutes. and a referee where i rounded up the score with. whatever now left on the clock. in stock. okami on next the worsening security situation in africa's the health reagan and how the world leaders on making it

a priority at the munich security conference we'll have more on that in day w. news africa don't forget you can get all the lads news and information around the clock on our website at state of the a duck duck call in the meantime anthony how it thanks for joining us. is the world becoming less western what does it mean for the world if the west leaves the stage to others key questions at this year's munich security conference and join us for our coverage of the new security conference 2020 today on d w. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language the 1st word pollution nico.