Second was in the running at the Berlin Film Festival and then withdrawn under mysterious circumstances well find out more from our correspondent on the red carpet. Im sara kelly welcome to the program the number of anti semitic crimes committed in germany has risen by almost ten per cent over the past year the highest level in a decade figures released today are causing alarm in jewish communities Violent Attacks are up by more than sixty percent this has prompted germanys Central Council of jews to call for stronger action from police and politicians. The signboards of a jewish restaurant smashed a pig head marked with a star of david dumped by a door swastikas and stars of david dunn a wall this was the aftermath of an anti semitic attack in the eastern german city of chemists in august twenty eighth. It was just one of more than sixteen hundred anti semitic crimes committed in germany last year thats an increase of ten percent on twenty seventeen particularly worrying the number of