Safeguard if you could try that agreement safeguarding the internal market and safeguarding also the peace grossest now is not going to be easy and im going to mean. In the coming days to do just that. Also coming up tonight to the Berlin Film Festival gets underway with a film premiere my colleagues charlotte shelves until the David Leavitts are at the bell and alla hi guys. Hi lay on the red carpet on the evening day of fallons night Injury InternationalFilm Festival and were going to give you a first look at todays World Premiere the kindness of strangers by Award Winning director Lone Scherfig and of course well tell you about the Hollywood Star getting everyone here really excited. But you our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day going nowhere thanks to that brags blockade the british Prime Minister was in brussels today trying yet again to convince e. U. Leaders to renegotiate their Withdrawal Agreement to start the u. K. s departure from the European Union now keep in mind breaks it will begin in less than fifty days and after two years of talks there is still no deal or next week theresa may will return to parliament and shes supposed to present a revised greggs agreement as it stands tonight the only agreement that mays conservatives will say yes to is one which includes changes to that controversial irish border backstop the backstop remains a mystery to most people you can imagine it as an insurance policy ensuring that there will never be a hard border between the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland when brics it has happens. Well getting rid of a hard border manned by Security Forces that was part of the one nine hundred ninety eight good friday agreement and to understand help breaks it seems impossible without endangering peace in ireland you need to know why i really needed that good friday agreement sectarian conflict has divided Northern Ireland for decades on one side the nationalists who want a United Ireland on the other the unionists who want to remain part of the United Kingdom its a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives but the region has been largely peaceful since the good friday agreement went into force central to the peace deal is an open border on the island of ireland between Northern Ireland and the irish republic goods and people can flow freely without borders checks because both Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland are members of the European Union. Brecks it however if you put all of that in jeopardy you see the u. K. Wants to leave the trade in Customs Unions which make that open border possible and at the same time keep the status quo the irish border or brits it makes that impossible yet to rescind me and some of her conservative party appear dead set on using bricks it to make the impossible possible the reality is that any agreement we reach with the e. U. Would have to provide for the friction this movement of goods across the Northern Ireland border equally clear is that as the United Kingdom government we could never accept that the way to prevent a hard border with ireland is to create a new border within the United Kingdom to those who think we should reject this deal in favor of no deal because we cannot get every assurance we want i ask what would you know to do to strengthen the hand of those campaigning for Scottish Independence or indies those demanding a board a poll in Northern Ireland surely this is the real threat to our union. Its british politics cannot accept the specific needs of this country of the north of ireland if british politics is incapable of acknowledging and upholding the good friday agreement and preventing a hardening of the voyager then the only last option the backstop of last resort is a referendum on irish unity. There was Mary Lou Mcdonald there from the Irish Nationalists Political Party she and fame were to understand the role of the irish border and breaks it were joined tonight by Tony Connolly hes the brussels correspondent for the Irish National broadcaster r. T. E. He is one of europes leading commentators on brags that the author of the book breaks it and ireland tony its good to have you on the date first and foremost i have to ask you what happened today theresa may she left brussels and the agreement with the European Union is what. Also its not. Just with the promise not talks would continue. She had two or three key meetings today ones with the president of the European Commission and she also mentioned that senior officials in the European Parliament which was also asked to ratify the Withdrawal Agreement and finally she met donald tos of course the president of the European Council who made those fairly colorful remarks yesterday about a special kiss in hell for. Six years who didnt prepare for all of the problems that we would be currently out of she didnt put forward any concrete details on unholy she wants to see it this withdrawal grievance i think she wants to simply come in saying look i want to have legally binding changes to this backstop and we can then talk about how we actually manage that and how we decide together but she did she did not get a very warm so actually in brussels because whos the European Union says that the Withdrawal Agreement cannot be reopened yeah thats a very good point tony i want you to listen to what gives the European Parliaments brakes a good team and what he said today about what can be done take a listen. All proposal is to try to solve the problem in the political declaration because we are open as a parliament from day one to the greatest political decoration to make his political decoration more binding more precise also on the issue of the backstop explaining and saying very clearly that this is insurance and. So tony what he is saying hes not talking about a legally binding agreement but theresa may is so if we have a situation where the e. U. And the u. K. Are talking past each other all the time. Yeah i mean theyve been doing that consistently for most to go seditions what gave or hostile it was referring to there was talk about a political document russian so on the one hand you have the Withdrawal Agreement which is essentially the poor st e three which is legally fine i think its going to be an International Treaty but alongside got you have a political declaration which spells out in and broader terms what the future treaty relationship could be like between britain and the European Union after the divorce the political decoration dulles or for change or making it either more or less and vicious so what the e. U. Is telling tories made is look if you want to avoid the backstop of the words if you want to avoid that policy then the this the the secret of the un surmise and what your future creates relationship will be with the e. U. Now of course if the if britain remains closely aligned with the e. U. In terms of customs and terms of Single Market recognition then of course that diminishes the need for checks on the irish border but the problem is that treason may has made it her red line to leave the Customs Union and a red line to lead the Single Market so essentially even saying if you sue if you ship your red lines then excuse me then you will need to have this faxed up in place and as it looks now were headed for a no deal breaks that and that would mean an automatic return to a hard border on the island of ireland and what would that mean then for the good friday agreement. Yeah i mean this is the great paradox facing the i wish governments and the Irish Government imbedded its concerns but the average Peace Process in the negotiation. System the e. U. Has taken on its concerns about the good friday agreement the return of a hard border and and turned those concerns into a legally binding fade and Withdrawal Agreement but its not very boxed up which is potentially going to mean the Withdrawal Agreement doesnt get signed and in turn you have a heart breaks if you have new details on that in turn could lead to a hard border so its the problem and its hard to deal without and of course the irish and the e. U. Is position is well it would have to sit on it but weve all promised that you know to return to our border so whod be up to the u. K. As well to work out how we do well tony explain to those of us on the outside why you know this seems to be such a delimit lets say you do have a hard border youve got customs agents youve got Police Officers at the border would that really be enough to trigger a renewed sectarian violence. It is its a risk and its a risk that nobody wants to take and certainly the e. U. Just much too risk because the e. U. Vested quite heavily in the Peace Process in ireland and Northern Ireland that the problem is that the good friday agreement was a very delicate balance of concessions its. A structured i was extremely extremely delicate it required constitutional change in the irish public it required potter movies to name the top of the weapons the whole prize for Irish Nationalists was that the border became irrelevant it became to disable its own order but it starts to become visible tend to feel that what they sacrificed and what the good Party Meeting promises will have been taken away and then once you put infrastructure there for even for cameras that infrastructure could become targets then you have to put armed officers perhaps to protect those targets and before you know once you have a more militarized situation so thats really the risk people are talking about and before we run out of time tony i want to ask you the former irish Prime Minister bertie ahern was interviewed today and he said that the locals there along the border would not even allow cameras to be installed i mean thats how radical it is so if nobody wants any semblance of a hard physical border arent we really may be heading towards a referendum on a United Ireland it means sounds like in the at the end of the day thats what youre going to have well certainly a United Ireland is the discussed at the moment whereas it was something of a time before i mean the good friday agreement. Senate thats there can be a United Ireland has to be the consent of People Living in Northern Ireland so that its really begun to unionists and much of the state are written the trouble it brings us rearranged dont ya tree the irish political situation. If you are living in Northern Ireland and you resent being taken out of the European Union then there is a great back into e. U. Membership im not is if art is united as one country of the promises they did by the e. U. Its a legally binding promise that the e. U. Has to reach if not in ireland and the republic of ireland where we unite its just like the way germany was reunited in the early nineties then the rule and we ought to be a fool member. Tony connelly the brussels correspondent for the Irish National broadcaster r t me totally appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you very much think. Of the people of venezuela again looks set to pay the price for the countrys political crisis because of a tense stand over over that standoff rather over a humanitarian aid convoy the dissuade his government led by Nicolas Maduro has ordered the army not to allow it into the country now the aid was organized by the United States and venezuelas opposition who want to see midyear were removed from power or with the aid convoy arriving at the border with the lumbee have been as well as military has to choose whether to obey government orders or to let the aid go through. And so far we know that aid is not going through to talk about the situation im joined by journalist brom in this he is in colombia near the venezuelan border good evening to use what is madeira what is he hoping to achieve by blocking the border crossing. This is just a very media that it was so much good knows that the United States spied. Character with humanitarian aid the longest post for certain things where its ok to dismiss so much of europe doesnt one of these countries though you study the process and he feels it is a necessity. Everybody knows that it was less than International Sanctions made their way by the states against sentence way that especially gives him a Good Government so he feels he has a lot of the some kind of the mobs so you basically are the United States to lift old sanctions except. Its not often we look at this and see it as a foreign intervention. Who brought do we know what is in this aid shipment and talk to me a little bit about why does aid is needed so badly there is this arctic crust in america intrinsically one that we havent seen before in modern history and inflation already rose. Percent there are no medicines for the sort of sparse people are basically creating a country as you saw it different concerts with a mass. Exodus is lot of variance with its crisis people dying from hunger or absent a case so i think you know of this dire talk about sending humanitarian aid with various food trucks i think general purpose is quite stupid but if it is rated for permission to survive and this is basically the example of things that will. Not be able to take care settings and burn we understand that european in latin american leaders they met earlier in europe wide to discuss the situation in venezuela what came out of that meeting. But were still trying to assess. That in terms of their its just. My demise its their reconsidering their Aerospace Way of different terror groups its best to go to the u. S. Especially to the fact that. Your state. In this is that with global. Humanitarian aid from. Not only breast spec basically breast ot its three years. Journalist abrahm it was stringing us tonight from cuckoo to colombia there at the border with venezuela thank you very much. But there is more trouble for facebook here in europe germanys competition watchdog has ruled that the social media giant can only gather user data from other sites if it gets their explicit consent that means facebook would have to ask users if he can pull data from the different apps that it owns like whats app in instagram the decision represents a major threat to the companys Business Model in an era where data has become the worlds most valuable resource. It is a long awaited decision three years thats how long it took Germanys Federal Cartel Office to decide to clamp down on facebooks Data Collection the question was whether obtaining data from activity on social media widgets on Third Party Sites could be considered anticompetitive behavior is being used as a given is. The whole conclusion is that facebook can still collect data on its platform that invited them and Facebook Facebook can also continue to gather data on its other Services Like whats up or instagram or on Third Party Sites. But they may in the future collect such days out only with a users explicit consent. Does stand. Indys it was a. Veiled collision im british. Like in most countries facebook is the leading social Media Network in germany it has more than thirty million users and the second most Popular Social Network instagram with some seventeen million users is now also owned by facebook that leaves the competition far behind. The decision to restrict facebooks Data Collection in germany is the latest in a long line of walls for the company that began with a major privacies gondolas last year since then authorities around the world have been turning the heat up on the tech Firm Facebook has already responded to the move by German Authorities thing to appeal the decision. It is bill and all the time again the sixty ninth Berlin Film Festival is kicking off today and that usually means two very lucky and cinema buffs get to leave the studio and that is charlotte tells them pill and David Leavitts look at you two looking very fabulous there on the red carpet whats been going on this evening guys. Oh i thank you brant we were provided today why this festival every year drew with tens of thousands of cinema fans to screens it has been so exciting this evening we had the opening film the wild print me at the kindness of strangers and there were just lines and lines of people standing at the red carpet hoping to meet the stars thats right this is this is the festival where the mere mortals get to rub shoulders with their favorite celebrities all you have to do is show up at the red carpet and youre bound to meet some of them that was definitely the case here as well right just give them a roll call and some of the stars oh yeah they were not expected ones as well Andie Macdowell get up out of nowhere and rumor is were expecting that brant you might remember her starring alongside hugh grant in for weddings and funerals and seeing how he was pretty exciting but then of course were all say the stars of the film that was premiering like bill nighy the british actor from that actually that was great you know he did kind of a weird dance i mean some of them are very good way and some of them were very glamorous on the red carpet and he did some weird like. It was sort of a weak old time like the snake you know in the one nine hundred eighty five i heard tell us more about the opening film. So the kindness of strangers is about just that its about a group of People Living on the margins actually some of them living on the streets of new york city and fate brings them together one very cold winter almost as cold as berlin and for. Were. They managed to help each other out yeah theres a kind of themes that the director of this film really does deal with a lot in what out of cools it is the female director opening up the festival this year shes danish name is known as shafi she is stream the critically acclaimed shes been nominated for three oscars in her career and has won one of ballad not is very coveted silver bad as well you know i have to say given that and i loved her movie and education which was nominated for best picture at the oscars back in two thousand and ten i was really prepared to love this movie i have to say i did not i found it pretty contrived it was a little bit like if you took love actually i mean it really threw in some homelessness and still night and some. Respect and some spousal abuse and beyond that what was what could have been really cool about this film for me was there was a good mixture of american and european actors but suddenly you had like this cop from buffalo new york he had a danish accent i mean being a little bit harsh i know i found it quite believing while i liked it right i would still recommend that you go check it out i want to i wanted to like the characters they were sweet but i just couldnt bring myself to print i know its tough its tough david i feel for you i know well we know that every bell and all that every year you know we hear that the berlin wall is special. And it is but here is different whats special about this years bailing out. Was it special and this year particularly because its the last year that thats was directed do you think theres a conflict everyone is very sad to see him go hes a huge figure here on the red carpet beyond that more serious stuff you could argue is the fact that they really trying to deal with the issue of representation here at this festival and they have decided to choose seven films for competition all of the seventeen that are competing to have female directors thats a huge deal thats cos likes parting gift so to speak of the four hundred films that are shown here in total one hundred ninety one of them are directed by women yeah i mean thats more than can and then it can buy and thats really impressive but of course speaking of gender diversity its also got a very tight best jiri as well this year which is headed up by the one be only you know star of european cinema best known for short or the English Patient and shes got quite a jury including Sebastian Lelio the chilean director who won the oscar last year for best foreign picture for his movie fantastic woman but we cant talk about women in films without bringing out one really big issue bryan and thats the issue me too thats been consuming the Film Industry for a couple of years and that is what a question that was put to Juliette Binoche at the press conference earlier shes worked extensively with the producer Harvey Weinstein whos of course been accused of sexual numerous allegations of Sexual Assault heres what she had to say in response to that he could see had problems. As a producer he was wonderful most of the time. And i think it was a great producer and that we shouldnt forget even though its been difficult for direct some directors and actors and specially actresses i want to see peace to his mind and let justice do what he needs to do. Yes they got something that really made the headlines on the opening day of the festival people surprised at those comments and briefly guys weve got about thirty seconds first days over what can we expect tomorrow. Well the big premiere tomorrow is false what was a new movie shes one of the top french directors and this is about sexual abuse in the church its based on a true story yeah thats right it was say deals with a cool case this just started in france actually so its extremely relevant a lot of people are going to be watching not tomorrow and a lot of people will be watching. 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