her. friends. there are brought this year. much hope to the christian. when you see this really terry to yoko who will church in your hook at tell us a bit about the christian community in your city soleimani and there has been a lot of persecution of christians in iraq how is the situation in your community. is in this not exceptional because. parts from iraq the christians oh very well liked it but here. we have a long tradition to live to get there we. we have a community here so the money is not to know where he would city but we have from the beginning from the foundation of the city we have christians here we have to be could jewish quarter quarter and we have of course the muslim neighbors

here and so the money of bus always very much known for its dial for the christians have been known for. for mediation between the different stripes here in the region the christian population and how iraq has fallen drastically over the past 2 decades there are reports of under 250000 left in the country do you see a future for the question communities there. is this that the. future. we have. much to work in iraq and i think especially the christian community is a community for the construct of peace here in iraq for the construction for the future and looking specially to young

people which are living today a year. so many young people and there's so much hope to see that will be half a year or so or conferences so there is very much. much hope for them and what is the pontiff to visit to the christians and not only our community but also the country as a whole. christian in general are from middle class and so to. the christians are in a very well respected part of the society. certainly the christians have big questions towards. majorities. and. maturity the sunni majority sunni sunni bigger minority and majority.

leader they'd be able. to rule for both for constructive if that dialogue or not. and that's all in selling my iraq thank you very much for speaking to you today. a year ago much of china was shut down to help contain the corona virus with a pandemic largely under control in the huge country its leader is now one to get the economy back on track around 3000 delegates are taking part in china's biggest political event the annual national people's congress they'll be rubber stamping laws drawn up by the communist party elite setting political priorities for the next 5 years. china lays out its plans for this year as it emerges from the pandemic at the top of the agenda the economy and hong

kong china was the only major economy to see growth last year the nation is the answering back thanks to its strong response to over 19 but beijing warns there is much work to be done. as the corona virus continues to spread around the world instability and uncertainty are mounting on the international landscape and the global economy continues to face grave challenges domestically there are still weak links in our works to control covert 19. the foundation for achieving our country's economic recovery needs to be further consolidated their ears to consumer spending remain and invest in growth lack sustainability. china's economic growth target may be modest yet their plans for hong kong are anything but beijing wants to overhaul the territory's electoral system citing loopholes and defects in the current system.

which. measures must be taken to improve the election system of the hong kong special administrative region eliminate hidden dangers and risks in the systems and mechanisms and ensure that patriots are the main body of hong kong people administering hong kong. you know also announced it will boost defense spending by nearly 7 percent. the rubber stamp parliament is also expected to discuss environmental issues and social development over the next week. he w a correspondent in hong kong has more for us last year in this very congress imposed a highly controversial national security law on hong kong this year china is planning to overhaul the city's legislature what will these changes need for hong kong.

for the most controversial measure of this election reform is that beijing is setting up a new screening mccandless them to this side the candidacy of the local that's just so of though our whole goal is to enjoy a wrecked democracy not the food the marcos the ever but. do want to take in this control to to make sure that both the administrative and the let's just take to branch under its control so under the new proposal the now at the moment is the chief executive is to buy an election committee which is dominated by probations focus in the future that is action committee will also be in charge of screening they can do those for the local legislature so nowadays the legislature in hong kong more than half of the seats are directly elected by the people but in the future the candidates will be screened and the fact by this election committee.

so we can expect also many and others as the servers expect that the opposition can will be excluded from the political institution and many analysts are actually saying that these proposals might be the end of hong kong's democratic dream how are the cities pro-democracy activists responding to this. yeah spoke to i have spoken to some of the incumbent councillors politicians on the ground from the opposition came some of them told me that they won't consider to run for any election in the future under the new proposal because they don't think they would have any chance to get through the election committee nomination and also to to to gain a seat without any risk because the stake for being a politician is on the ground now is this too high that just yesterday 47

opposition figures. we meant it in custody and they were prosecutor for national security law as the person charges because of their participation in the primary elections so this send a strong signal to politicians on the ground that they have to face higher risk by running for election and under the new proposal and they don't think they have any hope in the institution in the future. thanks for that update from. well let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world at this hour he sent me on mar have opened fire on protesters and mandalay local media are reporting that one person has been killed fresh protests have again erupted in several cities following the crackdown by the military junta which saw 38 deaths earlier this week the united nations is set to open talks on the crisis. and britain's prince philip has left st bartholomew's hospital in london where he underwent

a successful heart procedure earlier this week the 99 year old duke of edinburgh has been transferred to a private hospital in the british capital to continue its recovery. the european union is under pressure over a vaccine shortages as infection numbers continue to climb brussels is backing a ban by italy on the export to australia of a quarter of a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine the drug maker astra zeneca has delivered only a fraction of the shots and agree to supply to e.u. member states australia is asking for a review of the ban but playing down the impact. people have going to the right of 300. and so i can certainly understand the whole level of anxiety that would be used in many countries or across europe as is wriggly invited to be and so they have some difficulties the. broader the crisis situation that is not

the situation but nevertheless we've been able to secure those laws. let's make to band langer now he's an m.e.p. for germany's social democrats and chairs the european parliament's committee on foreign trade thanks for speaking to w today tell me does italy have the e.u. support on this decision. these are part of either your commission but the general paul i think it is them is expert to true and explode ben is not survive instrument to solve the problem to see the company you know of course as you mentioned you are paul that is a fault. because they are not stupid to the opposition also called for it and you've already voiced an opinion on the export ban in a recent tweet you called the move a mistake and said a quote pandora's box was opened so are you concerned that the european union could

be triggering a protectionist vaccine war here indeed that's a big list so as i mentioned that problem was one company but the us it is diminished which is to get our companies and the order and of course we have reaction force how the photos of the countries there's a 1000000 us to go through guardian who wrote on the one hand you are asking you to go to and used to. cut. us as a say moment is there would take this message union this is not is this is not sitting together up yeah right i say this is the excuse of cross the other countries to a standard to suit up with tech the us with vaccine rollouts and the e.u. having been comparatively slow doesn't it make sense though for governments to

prevent vaccines leaving a new territory. you know we're living in the open to it and of course we're also seeing the supply of that scene coming from ourselves. and you could easily argue why should they so all that is used inside the tube you can you know it's a global problem and we needed to build a solution and i see it every school should be a public good. it's to. we need more production capacity that's true this was a lot of thought and the vaccine strategy also u.p.d. union this interests in the pre-prohibition of the production but he did invest isn't actually capacity and of course it's not so easy to produce a smaller car out of a scene you need more capacity to know your permission is there's a task force under the. mistletoe to establish its separately this

procedure to go for more production capacity icing vision and really go for the boat pressure to companies to allow other companies partner countries to use the patents and the technical know how to establish more production capacity especially as an ally and has asked for the thetan to be repaired what are the chances that italy will lift the export ban. we will discuss with european commission inquiry. those with. intensity also by the way that now if you had more than 170 press for export. license and there are doubt it this case and your part why it was a lie it was not enough because it was from

a specific car this shows again the craziest aggression using an instrument boutros to see to secure sensitive products against attacks from pot most is a should be using now this instrument against this is not a prop and lagos a crisis what do you think that is going to do to the international reputation and . met their petition via from our so i mentioned 7 countries and that's really even the new director general of nato mentioned that are you not sure go for. the nationalist. regimes at all costs as you know india and south africa are asking for a very volatile has a more open possibilities. but actually carpet cease and desist.

4 in office and try to help these countries and now the latest on. the or petition of you creating union has really advantage and i have a european parliament international trade committee thank you very much for your time thanks a lot of the best. house is made of scrap material no running water and no electricity this is life for thousands of roma family as in serbia many ended up there are 2 decades ago while fleeing the war and kosovo temporary shelters have all too often become permanent housing our correspondent funny french are visited one settlement outside the capital belgrade crossing the road to a life no one wants to live a social worker takes us inside this roma settlement it's in the middle of a forest people here are left to fend for themselves they are poor.

and they're trying to live day for the. life and they are angry that various politicians have been here they say but nothing has changed me my you deven them they keep back to they only come when the elections are coming up they give us some flour sugar or oil and they think that we will live from this gift all year 9 minute spoke about it so they ought to be sure that this settlement started out as a makeshift camp for refugees fleeing the war in kosovo more than 2 decades ago that's when samson arrived back then a teenager now a father of 7 children. he welcomes us into his house made of scrap material his youngest child is only a couple of months old probably the most of the. lot because i don't want them to leave the same life through them or not i've been struggling for so

many years is for me i'm most sorry for my wife and 3 more of them she has to do laundry by hand i would buy a washing machine but i have nowhere to turn it on. the. with the ongoing pandemic the children had to drop out of school without internet no access and then there is a key legal hurdle to improving their lives from them on the one of the problems we have encountered a lot of problems because i did not have any documentation when i came here we did not have the time when we left kosovo. he story is that of so many here one of their biggest obstacles to proper housing and health care documents without i.d.'s people who live here have become legally invisible in serbia. there are hundreds of informal roma settlements but this camp is one of the worst people here are living in inhumane conditions with no electricity no running water they feel ignored and

overlooked by the government the local government in belgrade did not want to answer all questions about the living conditions here mark of us are yet each is not surprised he's been advocating for the rights of the romans to be for years living without access to the very basics is a serious health risk at any time but especially during the current pandemic he says is that can happen or to turn a mental or physical their health is extremely affected both physically and mentally and this may at some point escalating or story are sporadic housing programs for people living in informal settlements but there's no systematic approach to all informal settlements systems to police to the problem the cine research he believes this is due to discrimination of a community already marginalized in so many parts of the world. they are already various action plans and national police ensued via to improve the living conditions of. together there one of drew quiet ones to join the european union one

day but such plans and policies to quiet a stronger political will to implement them so settlements like this one ceased to exist. the report by your reporter funny for each other the burning dollar has awarded its top prizes on the closing day of the film festival and the golden bear for best picture went to bad luck banging or louie important well talk about some of the other winners and just a minute but 1st let's take a look at the jury's favorite film. this woman is a role model she's a teacher even she has a right to privacy but these days private lives all too often end up on social media. in this case a totally private video has gone viral it shows the teacher having sex it's no one's business but everyone has an opinion should she be allowed to stay in her

profession and continue to teach children. the teacher is now suddenly in the public eye. 2 to 3 when they meet the little girl reversed on appeal by god but it's a bit well that. the film is about chauvinism conspiracy theories and hypocrisy in post communist romania told as a biting satire for the jury of this year's barely knowledge it was a stroke of genius. a stroke of genius let's get the opinion of our movie buff in chief culture scott roxboro welcome back what's your take scott is a deserving winner. yeah i mean it deftly had the best title of the bally nala but i'm not certain if it was the best film i mean this is a it's a social satire this movie i found the humor a bit scattershot really but there is definite something quite significant about

this film and that was how it was made it was made in romania during the cold that walked down and all the members of the production including all the cast members were wearing masks the entire time also on screen and socially distance so it definitely is of its time and i think that's one of the reasons maybe the jury gave it its top prize because just looking at this film you know this is a covert era. the big question is whether it's going to stand the test of time and whether anyone will be interested in watching it 2 or 3 years from now at this wasn't the only one or there were others around them up for us. yeah i mean a couple of films that were that one today i really agreed with the jury gave its 1st a gender nonspecific acting prize the 1st time and barely know the history for the best leading performance to a man on aca to german actress for her performance and i'm your man this is a side by screwball comedy and she plays a german scientist who's sort of wary of relationships was assigned an android

played by dan stevens of downton abbey fame and he's supposed to satisfy her every need but the things don't really work out as planned and the 2 end up in couples therapy a lot of fun one of my favorite films of this year's ballot now that's another one of the highlight is another german film it's a documentary called have bachman and his classroom won a special jury prize today this is a fly on the wall documentary set in a german classroom in a small village which has a vast majority of migrant children of children on german descent in the classroom very touching very heart warming documentary that i really i really loved and you're a big burly knowledge and how did this 1st ever online edition feel was the magic on. i wouldn't quite say that i mean i think either one of us really good i loved a lot of the films that i saw but it's not really the same watching all these movies on your couch at home i mean i really love that experience of the bell and i was seeing you so much together the big audience in a dark theater in the cold of berlin. hopefully we're going to have a little bit of that this summer hopefully not the cold but at least the group

experience because we're going to show the winners of this year's ballot at a big event in the summer cold it will right scott always a pleasure thanks for that update. before we go here's a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you today pope francis has arrived in iraq for a historic 4 day visit it's the 1st ever papal tour of the country the pontiff says he felt duty bound to make the trip a number of questions and iraq has collapsed after years of persecution and religious violence. are up today up next as india our environment magazine and i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour in the meantime remember there's always more on the d w. w dot com or of course also on instagram and twitter at daily news is our handle on the call for that for me and the entire team here thanks for watching.

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