a little due to the profession. and also coming up on the program did have use my fader and scott roxboro at the burl and international film festival guys what do you have. we have coming up an amazing documentary about aretha franklin r.-e. s.-p. e.-c. t. say to do w. she sounds like you guys like that we look forward to hearing more. but first we begin in the united states where president donald trump says that he is declaring a national emergency to free up funds to build a wall along the mexican border he said the bill approved by congress on thursday provided insufficient funding for the project declaring and that emergency allows the president access to budgets usually air marked for other purposes that mr trump says that he needs about eight billion dollars and he was confident that his administration would defeat the expected court challenges. and here he is at
flicks is just ripping off the festival and it should be and so that s a controversy that was here tonight and it s going to be continuing throughout the rest of all and i m sure for the rest of the year ok fascinating stuff guys thank you so much my shader scott roxboro as always we appreciate it. well the day is nearly done but as always the conversation continues online you can follow us on facebook twitter instagram all the social media sites i m sorry kelly and our land thanks for watching.
a smart strategy at that and to the day as long as they continue to pursue it and continue with all the resources they have that includes u.s. assistance we have treasury department officials who work on these on the money side of things that s necessary and it s a great tactic malcolm be author of the last narco inside the hunt for el chapo the world s most wanted drug lord thank you. announced the berlin international film festival which is underway just across town and our correspondents you see them popping up there scott roxboro there on the red carpet they re standing by to tell us first of all about a little bit of controversy because we have this chinese film one second it s been withdrawn from its world s premiere in fact and from the competition what happened . yeah we were all extremely surprised yesterday when we saw that this film had
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 girl an international film festival he was the first ever chinese director to win 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 remember it was so memorable and one thing that our correspondent my colleague scott roxboro has found through his reporting and his connections that this may actually be unfortunately a case of censorship this film that he was about to premier was dealt with the time of the cultural revolution which is still a very sensitive topic in china in even though the director is also very highly regarded in china it looks like not even he could get the cul
world s most wanted drug lord thank you. announced the berlin international film festival which is underway just across town and our correspondents you see them popping up there scott roxboro there on the red carpet they re standing by to tell us first of all about a little bit of controversy because we have this chinese film one second it s been withdrawn from its world premiere in fact and from the competition what happened. yeah we were all extremely surprised yesterday when we saw that this film had been suddenly canceled the press screening had been canceled and just it was completely gone this is particularly surprising because this director johnny moo is very beloved at the barely not only not only a barely know of it in his home country lots of people have been looking forward to this movie and as far as we knew it was ready to go up until