now there are many facets to the berlin international film festival i'm one of them is the shooting stars project every year the european film promotion networks select ten young actors from around the continent as shooting stars the actors may have already made a name for themselves in their own countries but by inviting them to the film festival it gives them all a chance to hopefully branch out internationally. thank of the international film world war upon these ten young stars of tomorrow made their big appearance at the berlin international film festival accepting their european shooting star of this year's class includes in america even man from norway and milan markets from serbia. thank. the cheer the shooting stars come to berlin for a whirlwind four days full of activity one appointment after the next. they have interviews with the press and they meet casting directors from around the world as well as producers and directors. they take advantage of every opportunity to make their faces known to the film business which comes together in a concentrated form of the value no. i tho

all right it's time for some movie news in the highlights of day four of the berlin berlin international film festival also known as the berlin allah let's go straight over to charlotte charles until who is on the red carpet for us hello to you charlene great to see you so what is on the screens today. hey there marietta well the full day is a very important day and the better not the shuttle and that is because we have just approaching the whole flight point but there are number of films in competition that we've had a sneak preview also we also starting to get an idea now of the films that are hits and the films that people probably should miss there are seventeen films in total in competition here they are all vying for that big top prize the golden bad the award ceremony being next week now you've also got serious i understand that this isn't just about the films or a lot of the people that gathered here behind me these people also a braving the cold that braving the rain to try and get a look at some of the stars in just a short time they are going to see some big names i think you'

plus the golden bear goes to israel director not bottle of peter wins the top prize at the berlin international film festival for his drama centenarians about leaving once homeland will bring you all the berlin nala highlights. thanks for joining us i'm married to evanston. iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif has delivered a defiant speech at the munich security conference he condemned calls from washington for the european union to abandon the iran nuclear deal and he accused the u.s. of trying to exercise undue influence on the middle east his remarks rounded out a contentious conference where german chancellor angela merkel and mike pence also advanced opposing visions on iran and the direction of their nation's foreign policy what it has to do more iran's foreign minister mohammad shot sorry for sharply criticize the u.s. and dismissed vice president mike pence this recent demand that the e.u. withdraw from the nuclear treaty with iran under mr pence repeated this course when he and again to be demanded that europe must join the united states in undermining its own security and bre

was actually shot in the exact place where it happened and culture met with a cost at the berlin international film festival i'll be talking to film expert scott rocks for in just a minute but first more about the film the rains came late this year and now the trees are gone. now he's been dangerously. deceased. to. see that. the boy who harnessed the wind is the true story of young william and you won't sit idly by and watch his village start stiff did with an inventive mind and a thirst for knowledge william takes his family's fate into his own hands he sucked it. in with. them to do it. to retell it geo force directorial debut is based on a bestselling memoir of the same title it's the true story of william come conduct who at age thirteen build windmills to irrigate fields and save his village from famine. i was just deeply inspired by william story and what he did and i was very moved by it and i felt that there was. an incredible amount of layering to it and what happened to not only william but to his community just have such a white a resonance to me well you must parents hope that sen

and to berlin international film festival comes to a climax with the coveted golden they're going to no doubt the teats film synonyms it's about an israeli man who tries to suppress his origins after moving to paris. hello and welcome to the program on nick spicer political heavyweights made speeches on the second day of the new nick security conference with both german chancellor anglo methyl and u.s. vice president mike pence taking to the podium pence has repeatedly criticized europe of late methyl made an appeal for more international cooperation but she didn't shy away from the major points of contention between berlin and washington. machall 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 him and the month is no one wants to become unilaterally dependent or russia but during the cold war i was still living in east germany and we only got russian gas anyway but the former west g

plus norwegian movie out stealing horses stole the show at the berlin international film festival today but the spotlight is on its director after he defended actor the indecent over accusations of racism on the border brings us the story of the experiment. i'm calling assman welcome to the program nigerian president's muhammadu buhari made his case today for another four years in power he addressed tens of thousands of supporters at a rally and lagos there's just one week to go until the country's presidential election and he's hoping to secure a second term but he's also facing stiff opposition. as africa's most populous nation prepares to go to the polls president mohammadi bihari is pulling out hopeless stops. he's ruling all progressives congress party so to govern i supported a mass rally in lycos that year is largest city an economic powerhouse. but bihari has work to do to convince a jury that he deserves another four years in power many feel that the president has not done enough to fight corruption cover boko haram insurgency and revive economic growth is to go to station. you

plus one of the latest from the berlin international film festival no region movie out of stealing horses stole the show day three but the director is facing criticism for defending actor liam neeson over accusations of racist. i'm sumi so muskaan that's good to have you with us the u.s. has presented a draft resolution to the u.n. security council calling for a presidential vote in venezuela that immediately triggered a counter proposal from russia moscow supports venezuela's president nicolas maduro and is likely to use its veto power to block a u.s. resolution washington is also calling for a deliveries to be allowed into the country those supplies have been held up at the venezuelan. border a soldiers loyal to mother are preventing food and medicine from getting into the country so aid can't get in but increasing numbers of desperate people are getting out every day hundreds cross the border in search of a better life more than three million people have already flat. these images have shocked the world venezuelan soldiers preventing much needed aid from coming into the country from ne

and the latest from day two of the berlin international film festival we take a closer look at five agrees of god the french film about sexual abuse by catholic priests is a fictionalized account of our real life story and is in the running for the golden bear. thanks for joining us i'm married to evanston. a roller coaster of twenty four hours in thailand the political party that nominated the king's sister for a prime minister has suspended her candidacy obeying an order from the king shocked the country on friday when she announced she would be running for a populist party loyal to oust of x. premier taksim shinawatra overwrought had defended her decision to stand saying she had relinquished her royal titles when she married a foreigner in one thousand nine hundred seventy two. will be speaking to our correspondent in bangkok a little bit later in the program but now we'd like to take you to some of the other stories making news around the world. u.s. prosecutors are investigating an american newspapers handling of amazon boss jeff bezos says extramarital affair bezos has accused the pu

and clearing out the berlin international film festival today elisa and a marcello it's based on the true story of two women who married and spain in nineteen zero one that will certainly controversial back then but our correspondent will tell you why the film is raising eyebrows now. i'm simply so much god it's good to have you with us spain central left government faces and uncertain future after parliament rejected its spending plan a move that could result in a snap election prime minister pedro sanchez needed the support of two catalan pro independence parties to get his budget passed but they both voted against a budget that is because sanchez refused to engage in talks about self-determination for catalonia something spain's constitution doesn't allow. let's bring in a journalist mayville ask us he's following the story in madrid just outside of parliament there hi hi may the spanish parliament as we said rejecting sanchez's budget what's been happening there right now. well as you can she is very quiet at the moment members of parliament has just gone out an hour ago very imp

and we'll have the latest from the berlin international film festival where fans have been finding out a whole bunch of stuff but nothing teenagers take over the not naples mafia movie the running. i'm sumi so much got it good to have you with us we start in spain where a government crisis is growing it could be a snap election if the socialist government spending plans don't get approved by parliament prime minister pedro sanchez needs the support of two cattle on pro independence parties to get his budget passed but those parties have said they will vote against the budget they want sanchez to agree to talks on self-determination for their region but the government argues that spain's constitution doesn't allow that. let's bring in journalist and a martin roberts who's covering this story for us in madrid hi martin good to see you how likely is it that the prime minister can somehow strike a deal with these catalan national parties and pass this budget well that's looking very unlikely in days because talks last week between the government and the two cats and the nationalist policie

if asked waymark for the berlin international film festival our correspondents on the in s.f. and david leavitt's are standing by with details on the latest contenders for the top prize the golden bear. the competition is heating up at the berlin international film just we've got sneak peek for you up to world premieres will they make the cut. i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us venezuela's opposition is renewing its push to bring in humanitarian aid from neighboring countries in defiance of the government and the military now the country is facing dire shortages of medicine and basic supplies and more than one hundred tons of u.s. aid is still waiting in the colombian border city. but president nicolas maduro has ordered the military to block the supplies from entering venezuela he. says this aide is a trojan horse and part of a u.s. plot to overthrow his government now the opposition leader and self-proclaimed president of venezuela one by dole has repeatedly called on the military to switch sides and he did so again in a one on one interview with news th

teenagers takes over the mafia and make those around us as the latest film to premiere the berlin international some. time soon be so much got a welcome to the show we start with breaking news on the growing government crisis in spain in the last hour the spanish parliament rejected the socialist government spending plans which means a snap election is likely prime minister pedro sanchez needed the support of two catalan pro independence parties to get his budget passed but they both voted against the budget that is because sanchez refused to engage in talks about self-determination for catalonia somethingness spain's constitution doesn't allow. let's bring our journalist jaime bill ask us he's following the story in madrid just outside of parliament there hi heini the spanish parliament as we said projecting sanchez's budget what's been happening there right now. well as you can she is very quiet of the moment members of parliament has just gone out an hour ago very important vote took place here vote pro really putting an end to. either sense of government and and use terms. that was just sta

plus we'll have the latest from the berlin international film festival norwegians moving on stealing horses stole the show day three but the director is facing criticism for defending actually and neeson over accusations of racism. thanks for joining us i'm marion evans dean. leaders from across the african continent are in the ethiopian capital addis ababa for the annual african union summit rwandan president paul kagame e who's the outgoing head of the e.u. has been pressuring for the body to expand its powers he has just passed the baton on to egypt and president. who will lead the block for the next year the main focus of this year's summit is involuntary migration ones because africa is home to a quarter of the world's refugees and ethiopia has become the continent's second largest food for displaced people. well some four hundred thousand of them are in the region funny five chart visited a refugee camp there please note that some viewers might find this just reports disturbing. we are traveling through a beautiful but dangerous region need to sell sudanese in the impoverished

and the latest from day two of the berlin international film festival we take a closer look at by the grace of god a french film about sexual abuse by catholic priests is a fictionalized account of a real life story and it's in the running for the golden bear. thanks for joining us i'm marian evans dean we begin in thailand which has seen a roller coaster of twenty four hours the political party that nominated the king's sister for prime minister. has suspended her candidacy obeying an order from the king google rock shocked the country on friday when she announced she would be running for a populist party loyal to ousted ex premier toxins shinawatra the right had defended her decision to stand saying she had relinquished her royal titles when she married a foreigner in one thousand nine hundred eighty two. all right now to some of the other stories making news around the world the fiance of murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has said she would welcome a change in u.s. president donald trump's approach to the killing meanwhile there's been an angry backlash on capitol hill aft

big stars strong scenes tough negotiations we're going behind the scenes of the berlin international since estival for an up close. and more on the road with three purposeful women asserting themselves in the film world. is a photographer she gets the stars in front of her camera at exclusive one on one sessions the betty knowledge close encounters. and is a european shooting star one of the ten most promising european actors of tomorrow . as a springboard. is an author and filmmaker she wants to build a network for african filmmakers betty nala as a kickstarter. my interest is to support the diversity of voices so that more african women filmmakers can tell this story to the world i'm expecting to know more about european film and get inspired by all the different angles and perspectives all the film loving people that i'm in that i get to meet. women at the lab which i think is great i'd like to meet some of the filmmakers. like moderates that would be exciting. and and charlotte rampling of course. actually photographed charlotte rampling once before in the year two thousand. to d

now we are heading to the berlin international film festival, which is underway just across town fromere. and dw correspondent maya shwayder is on the red carpet for us reporting this evening. we have to start, maya, with some controversy, because the chinese film "one second" has been withdrawn from its world premiere and from the competition. what happened? maya: we were all extremely surprised yesterday when we looked at our schedules and saw that this film, which had been somewhat highly anticipated, was suddenly canceled. the press screenings were canceled, it was pulling out of the competition. and the explanation that we were given was that there were technicacal problems preventingt from being screened. but the thing is the director, zhang yimou, is rather beloved at the berlin international film festival. he was thehe first-ever r chinee direrector to win n the golden r back in 1988. his films have had good runs here, he is always well received. he is also the man who directed the 2000 opening ceremony for the bejing olympics, which was something so many people remember, it w

and also coming up on the day we take you to the berlin international film festival where as you can see my colleague charlotte tells impale and david leavitt's are on the red carpet guys what if you got. a that yes another world premiere today could this be the winner of the festival's top prize that and growing speculation about why a chinese film was pulled out of competition. all that more coming right up thanks guys. but first u.s. vice president mike pence today lashed out at some of america's closest traditional allies accusing european countries like france and germany to bust sanctions against iran in a speech to a middle east security conference in the polish capital warsaw mr pence called on europe to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal the talks in warsaw are led by the u.s. and israel who want to push a more aggressive stance on iran delegates for more than sixty countries including a number of arab nations are taking part but several countries including france and germany chose not to send high ranking delegations well let's listen in now to those comments from u.s. vic

and we'll have the latest from the berlin international film festival elisa and marcella tell the story of the first same sex marriage in spain more than one hundred years before it was legalized. thanks for joining us i'm mary haven't seen european aviation giant airbus is ending its production of its superjumbo passenger jet the a three eighty after major orders from australia's qantas airlines and dubai's emirates were canceled well it's good news for rival boeing a big blow for airbus the company had hoped the a three eighty would squeeze out boeing seven forty seven and revolutionize air travel but their lives have been cautious about committing to the costly double decker planes the a three eighty took off for the first time in two thousand and eight and seats around five hundred passengers. we'll talk more about this joining me now is debbie's financial correspondent who's in frankfurt so there you are really good to see you so the a three eighty in its day was really a major engineering achievement why wasn't that enough to make it a financial success for airbus. well you know t

and now we're heading to the berlin international film festival which is underway just across town from here and correspondent is on the red carpet for us this evening we have to start my own with some controversy because the chinese film one second has been withdrawn from its world premiere and from the competition what happened. we were all extremely surprised yesterday when we looked at our schedules and saw that this film which had been somewhat highly anticipated was suddenly canceled the press screenings have been canceled it was pulling out of the competition and the explanation that we were given was that there were technical problems that are preventing it from being screened but the thing is the directors john you mo is rather beloved at the berlin international film festival he was the first ever chinese director so when the golden bear back in one nine hundred eighty eight his films have had good runs here he's always well received he's also the man who directed the two thousand and eight opening ceremony for the beijing olympics which is something that so many people rememb

plus as berlin's international film festival enters its second week we take a look at an espionage thriller starring dan kruger some scenes were shot in secret in iraq but the film's israeli director insists his film is nonsense political to our correspondent as all the action on the red carpet. i'm calm assman welcome to the program iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution. tens of thousands of people have gathered in the capital tehran for a rally led by president hassan rouhani he told the crowd that iran is determined to expand its military power and ballistic missile program anybody ask anyone for permission to do so. our correspondent are joined at those crowns in the streets of tehran to see how people in the capital are celebrating today. this way of strength by the government here there are several under her years under. one so still in law. school children. watching from the five year old phone if you want to make that you know that side of the main demonstrations back in nineteen seventy many of them are supporters of the revolution story that range . fr

now to the berlin international film festival which is on the way just across town correspondents my skull to. the red compass. welcome both with can travel say the chinese film has been withdrawn. from the competition why. well we were all really really shocked yesterday when we suddenly saw exactly what you just said that it had been withdrawn the screenings were canceled and what was really fascinating was that the directors on the movie has been a fixture at the ballet now if you are very much for years now is very a beloved chinese director and the film as far as we know was packaged up and ready to go until suddenly a day or two ago the production just went dark and i mean i talked to a lot of people within the industry both here and also in china through two projects i have and there's a lot of mystery surrounding this but it does look like it although this isn't daughter official it is still a rumor that this is a case of censorship particularly because of the timing but also because the subject matter because this film is a film about the cultural revolution usually a comple

and we'll have the latest from the berlin international film festival elisa and marcella telling the story of the first of same sex marriage in spain more than one hundred years before it was legalized. thanks for joining us and staying. three key players in the crisis in syria are holding talks in the southern russian resort town of sochi today the leaders of russia iran and turkey are on opposing sides in the conflict but have previously come together to try and bring about a truce in the ongoing civil war there is said to discuss the situation in the demilitarized zone around the province of idlib the last rebel held on klav well that buffer zone was established in a deal between russia and turkey last year but hostilities there have continued now while russian president vladimir putin and iran's hassan rouhani are the main backers of syrian president bashar al assad turkey's president supports rebel forces fighting assad also on the agenda will be the planned withdrawal of u.s. troops from the conflict after u.s. president donald trump made a controversial announcement in decembe

welcome to your business update i'm to know that we're not in berlin thanks for joining us. the international monetary fund has warned of a possible economic storm brewing as growth that misses expectations of the world the government summit in dubai i.m.f. chief christine lagarde cited trade tensions and tariff escalations uncertainty over brags that a weakened chinese economy as reasons for slowdowns last month the i.m.f. lowered its global economic forecast for this year from three point seven percent to three point five. so as a result joining me now is our financial correspondent yan's court in new york dns good to see you now all of this sounds like a repeat of previous warnings we've already heard from the i.m.f. this time at the same event however we've heard about recession talk so how seriously are they taking this in wall street. it's really fascinating to see because there is a lot of talk but little action and meaning yes traders and the financial industry is talking about those headwinds for quite some time or as christine lagarde put it there are a couple of clouds forming that

and the berlin international film festival the movie tells the story of a same sex marriage in spain one hundred years before it was legalized but it's caused controversy because it's produced by netflix. i'm sumi so much conduct's good to have you with us air bus is a pulling the plug on its largest plane the a three eighty it was supposed to revolutionize air travel but it never really took off it is a plane that was beloved by pilots and passengers but in the end it did not have enough orders from airline customers now the a three eighty represents a more than twenty. in dollars in development costs it's also the world's largest passenger aircraft a double decker with. eighty meters of wingspan also room for eight hundred fifty three passengers and a range of almost sixteen thousand kilometers that's enough to a cover virtually any connection on earth without refueling as impressive as it sounds only eighteen airlines found that the a three eighty was actually worth of that investment another major customers were emirates also singapore airlines the australian carrier quantas and

all right time now for the latest from the berlin international film festival also known as the berlin olive day to showcase veteran director france falls on film the grace of god which depicts france's biggest church abuse case and its attempted cover up the film itself has also been caught up in the scandal the priest accused of molesting more than seventy boys is now trying to block the film's release in france. it was a rather quiet night on the red carpet with the premiere of the movie taking it difficult issue. a claim french director false well known tales to story of several men who were abused by a catholic priest when they were kids. long repressed memories awakened when they find out at the same priest is still in charge because if. you got connected to these awful. sci fi moment i had also been talking to us and call them. the film is based on the real case of father bear now play in the stomach of a french priest who is currently facing charges of sex really is salting around seventy. director of false wells also as he wanted to break the silence about the alleged crimes i

big stars strong scenes tough negotiations were going behind the scenes of the berlin international since us from up close. and more on the road with three purposeful women asserting themselves in the film.

well the berlin international film festival kicked off today with stars and starlets on the red carpet the opening film was the kindness of strangers which premieres at this year's barely known of the names a german international cinema bore out for the gol the opening of the outgoing festival director you see him right there are costs like he was right there in the middle of his last festival almost achieves gender parity with seven albums seventeen films in competition directed by women. of the jury for this year's festival appeared today for the first time to answer questions from the international press this year the jury president is the french star julia. she was asked about the number of female directors in competition this year. well when i spoke with detached he said to me i'm very happy that we have seven films some women directors this year and he said i didn't select them because they're women because they're great films so i think that's a good step forward. it was really have been speaking earlier today of the barely knowledge american runner michael ward had staked his c

big stars strong scenes tough negotiations we're going behind the scenes of the berlin international film festival from up close. and more on the road with three purposeful women asserting themselves in the film world just look at cable it's a photographer she gets the stars in front of her camera at exclusive one on one sessions the betty now that close encounters.