Festival Helena Humphrey and David Leavitts have been taking in all the action from the red carpet. Hollywood Actor Johnny Depp is making waves here at the festival with the World Premiere of his latest movie minamata will have a sneak preview for you of that runs under kathy pixels latest release coming up a little later on the show. Time soon is almost gone though its good to have you with us iranians are voting and a parliamentary election but many moderate candidates have been barred from competing by Irans Guardian Council the countrys president Hassan Rouhani has urged people to vote amid predictions of a low turnout many are expected to boycott the poll to defy the countrys leaders the election comes amid ongoing Economic Hardship under crippling u. S. Sanctions conservative iranian hardliners looks at. To dominate the election. Lets go to dave you correspondent to a set top a she is at a polling station in tehran for us hi took a set tell us what the voter turnout has been like today. Well some people are voting here in this polling station in instant hiran but not as many as 4 years ago when people were queuing up outside the polling stations to cast their vote and its not just quiet here its also quite outside a polling station and all that and silent iran where we checked it was more than 50 percent of the candidates banned from running this time many iranians feel not voting is the only way they have to show that they do not agree so many people told me theyre going to stay at home today so were really expecting to see the lowest turnout in years here in this group public at least in the capital tehran this is just on thursday at the u. S. Sanctioned 5 iranian officials on grounds of electoral manipulation what a fact will that have on the spot. Well that was a largely symbolic move and its not going to have any real consequences here inside iran not on todays vote and for sure not on the people affected by those sanctions as members of the Guardian Council irans electro watchdog but its important to see that theres been also a lot of criticism inside iran about the masters qualification ahead of this election especially since it was mostly reformists that got banned and so many in principle its candidates now dont have any real competition in many areas of iran and even the president rouhani himself has criticized that saying iranians should have a real choice at the ballot box of this that this really is the 1st test of irans leadership since the on raster with the u. S. At the start of this year could we still see a surprise result in these elections. Thats not very likely because many iranians dont see a reason why they should vote for the socalled reformist this time. Last time they did because they promised they would improve iranians lives but they failed to deliver on the promise so people are disappointed and the only people that come out to vote today are now the ones that wonder more hardline approach by parliament more resistance to the west and so thats why its very likely that the principle is that hardliners will emerge victorious from this election. Top are reporting from a polling station there in tehran thank you very much and now to our top story in germany interior minister Hossein Hoffa says there will be a Stronger Police presence across the country to counter what he describes as a very high Security Threat from the far right as far as the attack in the western city of homs 2 nights ago when 10 people were killed by a suspected right wing extremist that incident is being treated as a terrorist attack the city near frankfurt has a multiethnic population of about 100000 and some of the shooting victims were of turkish and kurdish descent many citizens of hannah are still coming to terms with what happened. Is a city in shock the crime scenes a place for mourners to pay their respects they say the impact of the murders goes beyond the tragic loss of life. Does this really worries me the social and Political Climate in germany is very scary. As a german with a migration background i feel and say we will go a few. Windows piers i go to my own members of a local youth club does it. Send a phobia has reached the center of our society and we germans with the migration background we feel theres. Many germans of foreign descent say its no longer inconceivable thats what happened to scandal muhammad at this shisha bar could happen to them. As often as i lay on the Floor Covering my wound and looking left and right with people drawing their final breath and have blood everywhere thats when i realized that this was a shooting. This is. A real sense of anxiety was evident at a vigil at berlins banda brigades on thursday evening. You know this is sort of this is terrible i have lived in germany for 20 years and always felt at home here. But after what happened yesterday i feel like i have a target on my back german president Frank Steinmeier has been offering comfort to han i was shaken residents summoned leave than what the far i say f d a growing force in parliament has to jane as azadi thinks that politics is part of the problem she lost a cousin in the attack. There a part of us that is now gone and they will not come back to show that bae is too strong and they would not be brought back by the words of a politician because until border. As far right violence increases in germany now as azadeh says talking a good game is not good enough. All right lets go right to han now where did you skate brady is standing by for us there hi kate what more can you tell us at this point about the victims of this attack. Well several more details have come to light in the last few hours we now know that 9 of the 10 people who were shot. When say knight shootings were actually a foreign just send some where are the foreign or german nationals and of the 9 people that was shot at the 2 close to those bars they were all aged just between 21 and 44 he is old there was one pregnant woman among those victims as well as a young man who had fled to bosnia during the war with his family as well as another young man who had just finished his exams and we can take a listen now to what one father had to say having lost his daughter in wednesdays night terrorist attack. The words youre older you my child was murdered she was only 35 years old. She came here to eat a pizza and drink a coke and then she was shot down over. Her i ask all of hono to understand what happened here the tragedy. Devastated and the children. Who. Are. Kate such an incredibly difficult time for the victims families and their friends and relatives i mean how of people there have been expressing their grief today. Was the day they was just a couple of hours ago a memorial held just behind me a demonstration if you will of somewhere around 200. 00 people who united in a sign of solidarity against for rights extremism they held hands and that is being organized via social media into the hashtag we can now but many people throughout the afternoon have been coming paying their respects to the victims laying flowers and candles and it seems have you spoken to many people around the city center today it seems that somehow everyone knew one of the victims either directly or shall we say through some 3 degrees of separation so what happened here on wednesday night really is hitting home with many many people here who have been only if they havent lost relatives or loved ones themselves they know someone who has kids that there are signs of solidarity there today and what are people telling you about their concerns are they afraid for their own safety. Certainly some people are and many people that ive spoken to particularly people of foreign descent who you are even themselves german nationals say that theyre not sure anymore whether they should be closing up their shops early but at the same time they dont know whether some of the measures that have been announced like bringing more Police Presence to the streets of germany whether thats really the answer and whether instead germany should be having a closer look at the fundamental change the change in thinking of how immigrants and how people of foreign descent are accepted here. Kate brady reporting from the ground there in higher now thank you so much well as we said this is a terror attack that a shock the country we have our chief Political Editor michelle or cousineau with us shes been following the investigation and the political reaction as well hi michelle thanks for joining us at the german interior minister home. He held a press Conference Today talking about the aftermath what is the good German Government planning to do here well in concrete terms he says there will be more Police Presence outside of sensitive sites also including some mosques but at the same time he stressed that there wouldnt be any call for legal changes in fact just on wednesday in the German Cabinet a hate crime hate speech law was being debated was being discussed thats being brought on its way and theres a sense that the government really has to react by using all the measures available to its max and quite clearly politicians are also understanding that there wont be a simple moving on that was the direct question towards him how much blame lies with the far right party in the parliament he said and he couldnt really comment on that but then pointed to a quote of one of the leading figures of the f. T. C. Saying that the nazi period that dark history was only a dropping in german history and that that really prepared the ground for people who clearly had mental issues to then move towards actually taking violent acts in here so there you have it and this is a new chapter in the political debate were seeing here now on this question this broader question of far right extremism in germany had some strong words about this lets listen to a clip from that press conference talked. Act and unequivocal terror attack with a racist motivation after the murder of. The attack against the synagogue and this is the 3rd right wing terrorist attack in germany in just a few months. So since the n. S. U. The rampage in munich a trail of blood has been left by right wing extremism in our country up until this day so i dont. I heard it there michel and thats very chilling a trail of blood i mean how seriously is the government taking this threat is taking it very seriously and to me has seen a learning curve from what was just mentioned that the end is you basically on the ground terrorist trio which managed to kill people in broad daylight for most a decade and the authorities were unable or unwilling to connect the dots i also spoke to Security Officials around that press conference he said yes this really was a turning point in thinking that authorities are no longer blind on the right as it was put also in many reports that no longer simply is a focus on a muslim extremist terrorism this is also something muslims represented support that this is always seen as a threat but then they really are the victims and we saw the interior minister for the very 1st time say that the right wing extremists was the biggest threat to durban security at this moment in time that is significant and as you said they the government is promising concrete measures your concrete steps to fight far right extremism and there was also a press conference from Muslim Association survey what did they make of the governments reaction while they welcome that but they say that a lot of trust has been broken there they want to see their concerns being taken seriously they say many of them there are they are germans theyve lived in this is sized for decades and theyve been through several episodes of debate. Actually belongs to germany and they want an end to that they want to no longer be question marks over their identity and they too are very concerned about the climate of debate here in germany and what violence could spring from that all right our chief Political Editor with us thank you very much. Now to some other stories that are making news around the world is Prime Minister thomas to ban has failed to appear in court to face charges connected to the killing of his a strange 1st wife and his son is that he had gone to south africa for a medical check out police say they will issue an arrest warrant if its proven that to bonny is trying to flee justice libyas military strongman Khalifa Haftar said he will accept a cease fire if turkish and syrian mercenaries leave the country in an interview with Russian Media he also demanded that turkey stop arming libyas internationally recognized government in tripoli this week the government pulled out of a un hosted ceasefire talks talks after have to use forces shelled tripolis port. And the taliban is set to begin observing a week long period of reduced violence in afghanistan the measure is supposed to show the militants commitment to peace and it will start on saturday if this agreement holds it could pave the way to finalizing a peace deal between the insurgents and the us. As iranians vote the countrys Health Officials have announced 2 more deaths resulting from the corona virus 18 cases have been confirmed all in the city of cold were officials have closed all schools for the week lebanon has also confirmed its 1st coronavirus case globally some 76000 people have been infected and more than 2200 have died in ukraine violent clashes erupted over fears that evacuees arriving from china could be infected with the coronavirus. The i see is over the spread of the corona virus trigger an eruption of violence thousands of kilometers from china. Efforts to quarantine more than 70 people evacuated from move on plunged this ukrainian town into chaos hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police into the night. I never went back to that was the response you were afraid of being infected it just spread all over the world even to egypt but those countries cant be compared with ours and why didnt they prepare and organize to somewhere else not to know a village. Sentiment going to get or know nothing about him. Just to isolate them here. We dont want to come an isolation zone exclusion zone only we are going to live here and we dont want this to become a new route hard for people to make which will help to move us you know we could. Buy lancer up to outside the facility where the evacuees and now under quarantine. Locals tried to block the road the lighting fires and pelting the arriving buses with starnes. Oath already say the 45 ukrainians and 27 foreign nationals on board had been screened twice for the virus before being allowed to fly the serial the new what we know when you believe in them but theres our poll of accurate people who are at the hospital healthy where you can stop because of that there are no reason to say that theyre elderly so obviously theres a Key Insurance or starting to just go measures are on the way to accommodate people comfortably that is local to the border but rubicon for some of the will to stay for the Prime Minister has tried to assure locals they have nothing to worry about. The police before the gloria the Health Minister has agreed to stay with these people and this hospital was to demonstrate that there is no threat to your craniums for. Several offices and civilians were injured in the violence. Dozens of protesters were arrested. 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Here in berlin it is day 2 of the belly now a Film Festival and the stars dont get much brighter than this man here johnny depp he is premiering the film minamata in which he plays an activist photographer depp said he feels a personal responsibility to tell the story of how big business covered up the mercury poisoning of japanese coastal communities in the 1970 s. Ive been following it in the herald in the time small stories every couple of months where no one is really covered i mean its and we got the impression. And thats all those poor people have to the times has a tokyo doesnt really have deadlines literally in one that sounds to me. Time is of the u. S. And you know the cover up is going to be as much of the story as the stores though. Helena humphrey and David Leavitts are chasing the stars that the 70th birthday and fall Film Festival there at the red carpet hi guys good to see you all eyes on the premiere of this film minamata tonight what more can you tell us about it. Absolutely see me today is the day all good really with i mean some of the biggest star power were talking about johnny depp is what is the british actor bill nye who also stars ada minamata mimosa tells the story all of a war photographer eugene and we meet him at a time when hes suffering from amphetamine diction and hes an alcoholic as well so its a chilling time hes also suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder you know perhaps unsurprisingly some of the genocide in the press conference did question him johnny depp about some of the difficult moments in his personal life recently he was a pretty great they were trying to draw a parallel between w. Eugene smith the character hes playing and johnny depps. Issues in the past years Domestic Violence allegations with his exwife amber heard johnny depp stuck to his guns talked about this story the story is that in 1971 w. Eugene smith the photographer went to minamata japan to investigate the devastating effects of mercury poisoning and i mean its a serious film but i think what is wonderful about the spectacle is that this is the largest public Film Festival in the world in fact simi so you know tonight were expecting just hundreds thousands of members of the public from here in berlin people who traveled across germany coming out to see johnny depp bill nighy where weve got your plugs ready the all you have to do that every man is just roll up to the red carpet anyone can come see the stars so this is this is going to be the big night for that yeah a lot of star power there with johnny depp and you guys also got a chance to look at what could be one of the biggest commercial movies of the year called on board and we have a clip of that film lets take a look. At it to meet you why then you need. To go tell us they are. That my. Your and that you are. Are you guys anything pixar is generally great i mean you saw this film whats it like. Oh man pixar there are 300 filmmakers working on this they worked on the story for 4 years alone and they just have total control over the audience i mean total control over our heartstrings our tears my palms were sweaty i kept being like whoa what if youre going to have a heart attack during some of the chase scenes unbelievable story teller i mean i think david made the really a very nice knew you could not turning up at any tissues to this film which i told him before because we certainly need it and it was very moving it tells the story of 2 young boys in a fantastic elves who very sadly lost their father and then given the opportunity through a bit of magic to meet their dad and spend just 24 hours with him and they go on this incredible adventure where the spell that theyre cast to bring back there that doesnt quite work because it only brings back as a lower half so they have to go on this quest to find his upper have through magic and whats really cool about this is the dynamic between the 2 brothers the younger one is afraid of everything the older one is afraid of nothing and the older one has this role play magic nerd who thinks he knows everything about magic but it turns out its the younger brother who actually has magical talents and i think what we found really moving is that at a press conference the directed and scanlon who came up with a screenplay actually said that it was inspired by his own story he lost his father when he was just one years old and his brother was 3 and they always wanted you know what their dad was like and try to retrace memories off him so it was inspired by that and some people are saying that perhaps this isnt the the best of the best of picks all but i mean i think lets be honest thats a pretty High Standard right it is and were too its really cool about this movie too is unlike a lot of other pixar and disney movies that are coming out of the moment this is not part of a franchise its not a reboot its not a sequel its an actual standalone movie and theyre showing that they still can do that yeah definitely looks like a beautiful film and it is expected to be a Box Office Success but isnt the berlin Film Festival meant to be more art house. It is indeed that we got our 1st big taste of that today with a film called the intruder this is an argentinian production about a young voice artist named in this who at the beginning of the film has a rather traumatic experience at least we think she does because its hard to tell in this movie whats a dream nightmare or whats reality and a different you blows the line and i think its really interesting i mean this is the 1st time weve seen a female director here and met i think better by name method by nature i mean there were dreams within dreams it was also about according to the act is a new wave of feminism in latin america and kind of shaking off who controls you in life and it also posed on the very philosophical question about whether we should pay and pay more attention to our dreams as opposed to our conscious waking life i mean it was very deep i generally pay more attention to my conscious waking life in my dreams at least i try to the theme of this years Berlin InternationalFilm Festival is inner turmoil outer chaos this movie definitely fills the bill it also had some inner chaos some outer turmoil all over the place where were bracing for a lot more art house right in this vein all right our correspondent helen unfree and david levitz down the red carpet there guys good to see you enjoy johnny depp well talk to you live it later. 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