Record highs a scientist warned of dramatic and unforseen facts of warmer weather on the icy continent. Under control the serb disgraced Filmmaker Roman Polanski leads to turmoil in the french Film Industry the entire board of the country says to me resigns just 2 weeks before its awards ceremony will bring the details. I feel gail welcome to the program. A long list of conflicts and uncertainty of the wests role in world and the world the top issues of the Munich Security Conference which started this afternoon World Leaders and Security Experts have gathered for the annual meeting in suffolk germany on everyones mind the war in syria where a government offensive in libya triggered a full blown humanitarian crisis. Another issue is concern over the wests shrinking influence on Global Security its even spawned a new Wesley Snipes in his opening speech german president frank. Had some critical words on this issue and on the role the United States has adopted in international relations. And our closest ally and start with the United States of america under its Current Administration rejects the very concept of an international community. And. The needs of the every country it believes should look after itself and put its own interests before well as us as if everyone thinking of him self meant that everyone is being considerate great again but even at the expense of neighbors. Thats what it appears like. At the Munich Security Conference melinda crying welcome what do you make of the german president s harsh words about the United States. Well it must be said that those words came at the end of a list of 3 countries that began with russia continued with china and then named the u. S. By name basically the president of germany accusing all 3 of putting National Interests 1st as you said of transgressing International Norms and rules and of undermining International Institutions and he went off on though to say some pretty selfcritical things about germany as well saying we often consider ourselves to be particularly good europeans but the fact is we too tend to put our own interests 1st and we could use a great deal more humility curiosity and the ability to see things through the perspective of others and basically he said to this me 1st point of view and an approach that essentially sees your. Ranks as my weakness and vice versa leads all of us to become less secure and he named 2 particular crisis that illustrate that the Nuclear Proliferation in the world is the destruction of International Arms control architecture and then secondly the Climate Crisis and he said unless we Work Together we are not going to solve either one of those as well as other challenges. Security come from so it has spawned a new catch phrase with Wesley Snipes what is that. Well 1st of all im not sure quite how far this phrase is going to go if you talk to people here they all kind of raise their eyebrows over this term pickups because in a way its an almost cute designation of something that is very serious indeed namely the sense as the german president put it that there is no longer a we when we talk about the west that all Transatlantic Community of north america and europe no longer sees itself as a community and as a group that must act in concert to solve International Challenges and its basically about the idea that the consensus on multilateralism which has been a recurrent topic here in munich for the last 5 years that this consensus has in a sense reached a new low point precisely related to nations putting their own interests 1st but that it absolutely impedes our ability to face some very very grave challenges indeed stay with us a. Close look at this notion of west look at one of the wests key agencies nato. The biggest deployment of u. S. Military might to europe in a quarter century is heading this way for nato is defender 20 exercise 20000 american soldiers and 13000. And pieces of equipment should give the enemies pause and allies confidence. One more on the way. Through showed up real reliable loyal portals within the nato framework but that reinforced military framework risks being undermined by weakness on the political side increasing apathy across the Alliance Regarding its most fundamental value collective defense what if nato has the weapons but it doesnt have the will a recent survey by the Pew Research Center indicates that across 16 nato countries fewer than 40 percent of respondents would want their militaries used to defend the Baltic States or poland in case of an attack by russia the Munich Security Conference has coined a new term to describe this kind of ambivalence west listening for those wistful about west listening this geopolitics expert shot at islam has some advice move on the west has had its wonderful moment it can still matter i think europe Still Matters definitely but it will have to work in coalitions and and alliances with countries outside the comfort zone so we would have to work with the indias of this would with russia with china with australia which upin and not just rely on this once very strong Transatlantic Alliance french president emmanuel mccaughan has seized the stage to position himself as a disruptor presence a moment to lead. It can lead in rhetoric it can lead in ideas so it can lead to its actions and actually know yet which way its going to go it is a Nuclear Country as a state in the Security Council they can do therefore what no one else can. And it can do that on behalf of europe. But while the west to deals with its identity crisis kremlin tactics are working better than ever warns retired u. S. Army general ben hodges causing people to lose confidence and trust in each other in their own institutions in the ally. Yes thats thats where this competition knows and. I think that we have to compete hodges praises the massive defender 20 exercises for making sure the military side is ready waiting for political cohesion to make it come back. To melinda creating them into typically of the real business of a gathering like the Munich Security Conference is conducted offstage behind the scenes what do you think is going on that. Well there are there are a couple of perennial topics in here and then a couple of new ones as well one of the perennials is ukraine always something that is very important as leaders from the region come together this conference as you said offers the opportunity for National Leaders and other important global actors to come together behind closed doors to talk about how to make progress for example in trying to bring peace to east ukraine so thats thats as i said a perennial here but there are a couple of new topics as well that will be of great importance 1st of all libya germany in january hosted a Major International meeting of all the players who in one way or another are involved in the conflict of libya trying to get agreement from all of them to cut off flows of arms and Financial Support to the warring parties there and theres been some concern about the follow up or lack of follow up to that meeting another meeting will be held here on sunday bringing in even more concerned parties as a very very important step for how to get this agreement in principle that was agreed in berlin in january how to give that real some real tooth and claw is Going Forward so that that situation can possibly be mediated and then finally syria russia turkey both represented here. There will be opportunities for their highest level of representatives to meet behind closed doors and talk about it credibly inflammatory conflict so plenty of stuff going on off stage as well as on. The course of the day for now that melinda crane at the Munich Security Conference thank you. Well a Syrian Government offensive in a province is leading to even ever greater numbers of refugees or people trying to get out of a labor heading for the nearby Turkish Border the u. N. Estimates that 140000 have fled their homes in the last 3 days germany is already home to hundreds of thousands of syrians who fled the conflict over the last 9 years and those with family members stuck in the war zone feel powerless to protect them we spoke with a man who fled syria in 2015 and hope that his family would soon follow him but that hope proved wrong. Check 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 in egypt. He is desperately worried. Whenever i eat or drink i think of my children do they have anything to eat on the ill do they have a warm blanket or are there. His sons mohammad 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 whats going on. Its 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 cant we need to get passports for you and lots of other things i can bring you over here. Were going to die the planes are bombing us the army is very close. And the only adult member of the family who lets us show his face. People are suffering especially the refugees its chaos i dont know whether im coming or going. Everybody is heading north camping in the olive groves sleeping in the open unprotected even though its 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 theyre not being allowed in the refugee camps overcrowded its freezing and theres 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 its why is the only solution Going Forward. But theres no sign of that and the fighting continuous. Would do anything he could to rescue his children from danger but he cant all he can do is follow events from berlin. Nobody notices people see me and think im 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. So take a look at some of the other source making news around the world china says 6 Health Workers have died from the new corona virus with more than 1700 medical staff infected the news came as the country announced more new cases in a single day than ever before another 5000 chinese death toll has risen to nearly 1400. U. S. Attorney general william barr has blamed president trumps tweet for making his job impossible on wednesday the president tweeted in praise of mr barrs handling of a case involving former president ial advisor roger stone. Free w. Says it has offered an out of Court Settlement of 830000000. 00 directly to consumers involved in a case relating to the emissions cheating scandal this follows the collapse of talks between the german car giant and a Consumer Group representing hundreds of thousands of german diesel car owners v. W. Blames the talks failure on what it said were disproportionate fee demands from the groups annoyance. Teenage climate activists grettir totenberg has praised young people for keeping up their protests that valentines day message for older generations was last quarter you accusing them of mouthing empty words and not taking the Climate Crisis seriously she was attending her 1st fridays for a future protest in her home country since last may. Now after the hottest january ever scientists in antarctica reported that temperatures have risen above 20 degrees celsius for the 1st time theyre warning that if the trend continues it could have dramatic unforeseeable effects on sea levels the news of the record temperature coincided with a big break in the ice on pine island iceberg 300 square kilometers an area calved from a glacier last weekend. Giant blocks of ice have always broken off antarcticas ice shelves but in places like pine island the losses are speeding up scientists are worried there are 4 warning of even larger events as Climate Change drives higher rates of thaw on the frozen continent. A new study says if temperatures continue to go up in antarctica global sea levels could rise by up to one and a half meters by the year 2100 at chilis escudero based on King George Island the ice and snow pack has melted almost entirely this year. Its the 1st time we see a lack of snow that is so impressive it really caught our attention we left some sensors installed weve see temperatures over 13 degrees so you know in the last 40 years ice loss in the antarctic has increased 6 fold and as it continues to melt the warm temperatures are also having an impact on wildlife like chinstrap penguins populations of them have plunged dramatically we did find one colony an Elephant Island had a very large colony that declined about 77 percent. Tremendous loss over a very short period of time and with january of 2020 setting new heat records theres no sign the melt is going to slow anytime soon. At the opposite pole dozens of scientists are stranded themselves on oct ice to investigate the north poles weather and climate in the age of global Climate Change the german ship paula stern and a Russian Support boat which themselves to an ice floe moving slowly through the region they plan to stay for a year. Theyre not far from the north pole and the temperature is as low as 35 degrees below 0 the ice here used to be called eternal but it doesnt seem like that anymore this is why theyre here the ships and their equipment on the ice prove interesting to the locals. Say the bears a difficult to pick out against the snow. A sniff around a research container. And a careful inspection of a flag on. The research is cool at the citadel 2 ships forming a makeshift town tied to an ice floe all of it moving 10 kilometers a day through the long arctic darkness the only light at this time of year comes from search lights on the boat. Large cracks keep appearing the ice at 1. 5 meters thick then suddenly open water its unsettling for the scientists in an attempt to understand whats happening they send up weather balloons to gather data from the air and sink instruments into the water to measure currents and temperatures the 1st measurements here were taken 100 years ago comparisons show alarming changes. To veto the arctic winter has become between 5 and then 10 degrees warmer thanks to Climate Change its where we can see Global Warming at its most dramatic and its very clear are not expedition spring is coming to the north pole shimmers of sunlight can sometimes be seen at the horizon at will and the polar night every couple of weeks the teams a switched out and necessary routine for the biggest ever expedition to the north pole. I was indeed there will be news still to come so watch to love kids from around the world to tell us what fills our hearts for the hottest its valentines day. First of 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 is coming since our awards a french polish director fled from the u. S. After pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a teenager and the late 1970 s. Because youre going to be on the money deliberately. In the Roman Polanskis film about alfred jury 1st a jewish french officer unfairly accused of spying for germany in the eightys ninetys has been well received by critics it picked up the grand jury prize at last years 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 season academy and outs that the film lead the nominations the academy initially defended its actions saying it could not be expected to take a moral stance. Polanski fled the u. S. To avoid imprisonment after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13 Year Old Girl in 1998 and in november 2900. 00 french actress valentino manye allege that polanski raped her in 1985 when she was 18 an accusation he has denied. For the time being the nominations for an officer and a spy i remain in place. And uses on board will be selected after the awards ceremony which takes place on february 28th. Just look up with the sports on in the. Dortmund have been the german jackal high a brilliant one minute hopeless the next patch of form striving to do by all their title challenge after losing to leverkusen last weekend they badly needed 3 points on friday as in form frankfurt came to town. I sings on ravelled in a flash for dortmund after going 32 up i leave her couzin level that i was. And then grabbed the winner himself just as she minutes was for one of dortmunds big name signings it was a better home debut. Despite a stunning 1st goal i was i. 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