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Recognize this on the final day of the Munich Security Conference Benyamin Netanyahu israels Prime Minister confronts iran over a drone shot down by israel irans foreign minister hits back calling this an yahoos appearance a circus. After u. S. Officials and thirteen russians for meddling in the twenty sixteen election and next troll tells you they are just the tip of the iceberg of russias fake news factory. Also on the show a book mislead by full of the brucia mention gladbach host and dont believe its the visitors winning the last four times the two sides met but it proved to be a close game. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us. Its been a rapid evolution of relations between germany and turkey last week turkeys Prime Minister banally visited berlin and paved the way for the release of an imprisoned german journalist then over the weekend more signs of a thaw you know the ring told the german media he expected president era to want to visit berlin amid hopes for renewed military cooperation but critics say its the result of a secret deal for german tanks. Seeking speedy approval from germany turkish Prime Minister banally uniter him is hoping the two countries might soon cooperate on building tanks in turkey deal potentially worth billions. In january German Foreign minister sigma gabriele only signal berlin would ok a proposal to retrofit tanks with new anti mine systems but that plan was put on ice after turkey invade is syrias african region with german built leopard tanks gabriele rejected speculation a deal for a tank factory would be approved but critics fear there may be a secret agreement in exchange for the recent release of the german journalist in is your general also the foreign minister would never admit it but in my view its perfectly clear theres a connection there if you look at the whole story i assume is a direct link to. The German Foreign ministry has denied those claims it says the countrys acting government doesnt have the mandate to make such a deal and the putting on the stick this countrys future governing coalition has agreed in its negotiations to further tighten weapons exports so i wouldnt be able to support an agreement like that. The tensions between berlin and ankara where again evident in an incident at the Munich Security Conference German Parliament member gemmas demand needed Police Protection for the duration of the summit after the turkish delegation which was staying in the same hotel label tim a terrorist. But fifty eight of these are presented names of such a country can call a member of the German Parliament a terrorist then under normal circumstances one could react by asking have you lost your mind and when will you take this back but need to look indeed german turkish relations are far from returning to normal turkeys foreign minister was blunt responding to questions about dimia saying simply hes lying. Lets get some perspective on this with our Political Correspondent Thomas Sparrow good morning thomas first of all whats behind this allegation that we heard in that report there that the widely respected German Parliamentarian former cochair of the green party samir that he is a terrorist words is coming well were talking here about one of the most important german but i mean terry and its. Me and hes of turkish origin and also one of very particular critic of the add on government and as we saw in our report a party that was saying the same hotel and he was labeled a terrorist or a member of a terrorist organization something that he obviously rejected labeled a terrorist by whom well thats a big question if you ask. They say that thats not the case that he simply. And that hes doing so to boost his own profile given the fact that hes no longer than leader of the green party here in germany so its certainly an issue that just adds to it wide range of problems between turkey and germany its really confusing i mean we heard it also in that report there that you mention it yourself that theres a mirror is accused of lying lying about what it well specifically lying about all these allegations that he could have been labeled a terrorist that. Have said essentially that thats not the case that he wants to boost his profile by doing so and thats why all this happened very confusing ok just a couple days ago turkey released the german turkish dual national journalist. A very well known in germany for the different papers hes written for he was held in jail in turkey for a year without formal charges being laid against him now his detention was all an obvious strain on german turkish relations what do you make of the speculation that there is an arms deal done between germany and turkey to secure his release of this is being a very delicate topic in recent weeks in germany known. They now after his release about the possibility of this deal in order to secure his release if you ask German Authorities if you ask germanys Foreign Ministers that my god will they will say that theres no deal no dirty deal no clean deal thats what he said himself he stressed that his release was pure act of diplomacy but there are voices not only in the German Parliament but also well you can see on debate on television for example saying that that is not the case that its something fishy around for now there is to be nothing confirmed its a lot of speculation and some are saying theres actually a fall coming in german turkish relations well see about that so german takes relations thrust into the spotlight at the Munich Security Conference which is what were talking about really not a big focus at that security conference iranian israeli relations israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their conference stepping out using the platform for a very dramatic warning lets listen it israels Prime Minister was in hawkish form when he took to the stage and munich in a blistering speech he slammed what he calls irans aggression in the middle east. Heres a piece of that iranian drone or whats left of it after we shot it girl. I brought it here so you can see for yourself. Mr zarif. Do you recognize this. You should be george you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of terror on. Do not test israels resolve. Netanyahu is a vehement critic of the twenty fifteen Nuclear Agreement negotiated between six world powers and iran and he sees that as a form of appeasement that wont prevent iran from building a nuclear bomb or maneuvering to become the dominant power in the region. I think its time to stop them in their aggressive theyre developing Ballistic Missiles theyre not inspecting and theyre going to have a free highway to massive enrichment this has to be change a few hours later irans foreign minister Mohammad Javad zarif addressed the conference brushing off netanyahu his remarks and calling israel the true aggressor. Israel. Uses aggression. As a as a policy against his name they can blame it for ever on iran but that wont resolve their problems. As the fifty fourth Munich Security Conference comes to an end this verbal onslaught seems to indicate more uncertainty. Is really iran clearly on a collision course there were the only positive signals tomas from the Munich Security Conference concerning the prospects for diplomacy in peacemaking in the middle east well if you judge by what the chairman of the Munich Security Conference. Said not long ago he said there were some nice words but too many aggressive words and he described the situation in general the security situation as pretty gloomy and its important to stress that the Munich Security Conference is a place where specific where you can specifically have those good points towards diplomacy where leaders meet not only in these forums but they meet also on the sidelines so it is such and the portend for those leaders to have the possibility to meet what were seeing here what we saw by those two leaders there was certainly not positive in the very combative term as someone whos been following Munich Security Conference for years tell us what your overall impression of things this time are that there are security challenges essentially everywhere not only in the middle east not only challenges here in europe but there were also interesting panels about africa about the situation in africa and the sahara region or you can look wherever you look there are very important challenges and challenges that essentially need cooperation on a on a wide scale its not something that can just be decided by one specific actor i think thats one of the key elements that i would take from the Munich Security Conference just now so multilateralism not dead thomas thank you so much Thomas Sparrow from our political desk. Its a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today hungarys Prime Minister viktor orban has called for a Global Alliance against migration this as his right wing party began campaigning ahead of an april election thats expected to win or been has pushed this anti immigration stance ahead of his bid for third consecutive term. Search and rescue efforts in central around are due to resume on monday crews are still searching for the site of a plane crash in which sixty five people are feared dead and weather forced rescue workers to break off their efforts on sunday. And mourners in the city of russia have attended the funerals of two seventeen year old boys shot dead in the Southern Gaza strip Israeli Forces say they also conducted air strikes against eighteen targets in gaza the raids came after an explosion near the border injured four israeli soldiers. Even a special council has indicted thirteen russians accused of meddling in americas president ial election and that is putting kremlin backed internet propaganda in the spotlight in an exclusive report russia correspondent yury rich chateaus spoke to a former socalled troll she worked at the Internet Research agency in St Petersburg thats a body identified by u. S. Investigators as a factory for fake news. Were not allowed to disclose an exact address not even the district this Young Journalist could face repercussions two years ago she was working among russias socalled internet trolls she had a job with the Russian Agency for Internet Research thats the official name of the St Petersburg troll factory whose buses have now been indicted by the United States. Employees at the troll factory get a list of topics every day that they have to work through that news about the United States was always one of the more important topics. That it was getting. Two years ago we tried to make contact with those working inside these walls to no avail the revelations by luke miller lifted the lid on the trial factory on several skin a street here in russias second city. Curtains on the windows no sign at the entrance into that unsuspicious looking building here in san pitt as burke so called internet trolls are supposed to have dramatically meddled in the u. S. Election american investigators say. This video from inside the building was sent to us by another was who according to let miller theyre better paid than the average russian more than a thousand people work here according to her but its not even the only troll factory in russia. Always Less Movement today no one can exactly say how far these trolls have really influenced the us elections and individual voters. But its absolutely clear that there was a meddling going on. Its enough for just one person to put out false information in return for payment that clearly constitutes an attempt to tamper. Yeah. Miller says the u. S. Charges should serve as a wake up call for many. In that state worse there werent just thirteen there werent even just one hundred thirty of them there were many more that there was and still is an enormous operation going on. At those base and the thirteen who have been accused are just the ones the americans have got hard evidence against i hope the investigations will continue. With them there are simply so many people who are working professionally for the russian Propaganda Machine hope that others will soon be investigated would suddenly shown. Up on. Until that time so petersburg is unlikely to be the sole source of russias fake news. Bulletin and some light at the end of germanys very slow internet tunnel we can but hope we certainly need it dont we terry not germany is one of the worlds top exports but when it comes to Digital Infrastructure what you might be surprised to learn it is still lagging way behind take for example the internet most data is still carried via underground kulpa cables which have been there for decades now the Coalition Agreement between germanys still not official new government specifies that every person living in the country should have access to High Speed Data Networks by twenty twenty five. Its hard to make anything anymore without access to the internet its what startups are all about and central to the operations of Midsized Companies and major corporations alike. But many places in germany outside the big cities suffer from slow connections germany is virtually a developing country when it comes to super fast fiber optic cables in japan over three quarters of all broadband connections are over fiber optic cables. Latvia leads europe though with over sixty percent via fiber optics by comparison the average for all always nation to slightly over twenty two percent but here in germany only about two percent of broadband is delivered via fiberoptics many businesses are frustrated with berlin because there has been little progress over the last few years there have been ambitious initiatives by earlier governments but investment remains lacking. Well joining me now in the studio is yanina mitzna shes a board member of the German Startups Association and a startup founder herself and last week that association launched a petition calling for the creation of a Digital Ministry in germany good to see ya nina thank you for coming in how could a digital minister help bring germany up to date so as we saw in your film germanys leaving behind invitation in so many ways no matter if its about economic transformation. Governor men are there to tell if you cation and we think that central person responsible no matter if its a minister or a secretary of state in the chancellery would help to to to bundle all the efforts in the to tell affairs to other countries have a digital minister they do so if we look at france at u. K. Opponent austria we see that they already put in place a central person for these Digital Transformation process of if you could then have sort of the agenda for this digital minister what would you like them to implement first would it be a case of faster broadband simply more Cash Research whats needed i think its probably a combination of all of it and especially a change in mindset so i think that we cannot tackle are the biggest challenge in our society with doing everything that we always did and you name the broadband for example as a Digital Infrastructure would be very important that we accelerate our commitment in these fields where you are the board member of the German Startups Association but if you could just change hats for a minute youre also a startup found yourself in your experience has there been a moment where you have felt held back in your company because of a lack of Digital Infrastructure can you give an example i think if you look at startups theres always two crucial things states always about money and its about people and if we look at money i would say that we have a good start of ecosystem when its about seed. Investments whenever its about Growth Capital so when the need of more capital is there for a start of we all saw way behind the what the u. S. Market could probably provide is quite interesting that you mention people that because most people when they think about this theyre thinking about you know cables the thinking about networks so is germany lagging behind when it comes to the development of personnel in these industries is this also about education i would say so so if i look for example my own company we are tech company but in bass tech company but we hire almost every second developer from approach just because we dont find the right people within germany and were certainly seeing now in berlin itself when we