Says it is pausing its late stage testing to investigate and review Safety Measures 5 years after diesel gate a german court has approved prosecutors request to put former volkswagen c. E. O. Martin venter kwan on trial for fraud it was under vento khan that the carmaker developed and sold cars with a mission Cheating Software the scandal has cost the company billions and restitution hollywoods most coveted film awards the oscars have revealed new diversity rules starting in 2024 films vying for the top prize best picture need to include people from minority backgrounds both on and off screen the Academy Awards have been often criticized for mainly nominating white filmmakers and actors. Hugh the 77th Venice Film Festival is on this week the 1st major Film Festival to be held since a world went into pandemic locked out and a german film tomorrow the entire world is in the running for the top prize the golden lion really a fun heintz this film tells the story of a student who joins a left wing activists fighting right wing extremists in germany but eventually shes forced to question how far shes prepared to go to fight for her political ideals. And lets go to venice t w scott roxboro is standing by for us there hi scott great to see you so tell us more about why the director selected this topic i mean it seems really timely looking into extremism in the political spectrum yes no extremely timely could be ripped from last weeks headlines and i was able to talk to you earlier before the films from here here in venice and she told me that she thought it was crucial that the film be seen now because she thinks that the most pressing political issue in germany at the moment is how to fight right wing extremism because of the frightening new rise in support for far right ideology lets have a listen to what she said you have gone to and we have 13 percent of voters here in germany supporting the far right party they have seats in federal parliament and in the states before they were fringe parties thats right now theyre becoming mainstream yet weve had many deaths already you have there was a hollow someone tried to attack a synagogue calm down its escalating right now on the vine he does not go out shes looking like this is not. Ok so scott as we hear there it is timely i understand theres also an autobiographical element to this so tell us what inspired the director. Yeah the director you have hines actually spent 10 years in the far Left Activist Group this detected in the film she assures me. It was never as dramatic her experience as the experience in the film she was never involved in anything of violent never held a weapon or did any Property Damage but she said the emotional journey of the character and also the questions that the young woman in the film ask herself basically how far she willing to go to defend her ideals are the exact same ones that she asked herself that she went through as a young woman. Company in the last great what sounds like a great film scott and we see that youre wearing the mask tomorrow the entire world so i take it that youre a fan but what are at this point your favorites or your favorite to win the golden lion. You know im not sure if this film. Will have a chance or not i thought it was quite strong and so and the political aspects of it will definitely have an appeal for the jury here but if i have to pick my absolute favorite it would be pieces of a woman a film starring the nesa kirby as a woman who loses her baby in childbirth a very strong personal drama that really blew the way especially curvy as an as an actress and then a documentary that screened here and called. About people who didnt become refugees but stayed in the world torn areas of the middle east and struggle to survive in those war zones those 2 things i think were the most powerful that ive seen so far here in venice and well see if they have a chance to take home the gold lion come saturday and scott while we have you with us we just mentioned the oscars is now trying to address the lack of diversity in the Award Ceremony of the association has now announced new diversity whirls tell us what they do and if that is going far enough. Yes these new rules only apply to candidates for the best picture oscar is the top prize of the oscars and they wont come into effect until the 2025 oscars so people have a bit of time to adjust to them but basically the inforce diversity in front of the camera and behind the camera basically at all levels of productions only films that have diverse casts they have a diverse production staff will be considered for the best picture it could have are quite serious consequences because of the 10 films that were nominated this year for best picture only 8 of them will qualify under these new rules youll be interested to see how big an impact this will have on the stories that hollywood decides to tell but i think what the academy is trying to do with these new rules is to basically force hollywood forward that they dont think that hollywood will change on its own to make itself more diverse but it has to be pushed pushed in that direction and well see as these rules take effect what impact it has to be a scot roxboro reporting for us from venice thank you so much. Eva. Now twice a year storks follow a 12000 kilometer migration route between africa and europe and one of the best viewing spots for bird watchers to see this wonder of nature is a garbage dump in the middle east. Time troll break for flocks of white storks in the Jordan Valley and the occupied west bank at dawn on you thought it just yossi leshem is up early to observe to berts at this huge garbage dump. Twice a year distorts navigate their way thousands of kilometers from europe to Southern Africa and back israel and the palestinian territories are like a bottleneck there one of the main micro tare routes for millions of parents. Because they avoid to fly over their mediterranean so we are like a closer question between 3 called good and so we are lucky to have in fact 600000 stalks to our flag twice a year over year all there were almost all the World Population of whites talks about how the 50000. 00. 6000. 00 or so we are lucky to be at their best high rate of the job and stalks. Rather than taking a shorter route over the many terrain and like smaller bags stalks fly over land to catch up or streams of warm and pockets to write a thermos to conserve energy. The landfill is like a pit stop for the storks they just stay for the night to rest to feed and got the strength before setting off on the next leg. In the last 10 years they go to look for. That you are places where you catch a fish but for garbage there of course they have plastic bags and stuff like that which is of course dangerous but they go where they have the easy food although bird migration happens twice every year it still amazes he was studies to birds for decades unlike most humans to storks dont need g. P. S. To arrive at their destination we had one stalk that was amazing for 15 years she was going every you for the same nest in your book new 1000000000 to this same tree near kept a year after year. If they have strong winds she can compensate and she knows how to go but said the company exactly where she wants to go because theyre doing it for billions of years. Its time for this truck to take off every day they fly between 300 to 500 kilometers next up the chips in sinai before they continue their exhausting journey to what still winter home in Southern Africa. Lets get a recap of our top story at this hour on g. W. More than 12000. 00 people have been left homeless after multiple fires got to greeces largest migrant camp overnight officials are investigating the blazes on the island of less post as are said the camp had been placed under coronavirus lockdown. Coming up next on the news a show videotaped evidence emerges of the armys alleged atrocities against the rohingya in me in march but can it be believed. And a new disney film faces boycott calls from prodemocracy activists in hong kong for being cheap subservient to china. Those stories and more coming right up on to give you news asia with the rage on or g. Dont forget for all the latest headlines you can follow us on twitter handle there is an t w news or go to our website to get you dot com for all of us here in berlin thank you for watching. Little odd. Research points to. The fears and uncertainty among the books emma has been a labor of innovation. Solution. Progress. Come on. Me conservative. Team 16. W. Is for me. Is for you. 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Correspondent who covers the region joins me now from kuala lumpur whats your assessment of these videos i mean how reliable are they oh my things have been obtained under duress yet well i can tell you that i saw a video that has been made public that came out in may that the same 2 soldiers were in now they do not go as far as that video that came out in may as the one that the New York Times was reporting on yesterday that everyones talking about now but when you watch that video from may they do look like theyre under duress and it leads to questions about whether or not their answers were rehearsing but heres the thing they are i. C. C. Investigators are talking to them so thats really whats going to be the most important thing what do they say not i. C. C. Investigators what new video is my i. C. C. International criminal court about to get is might they be getting will they be testifying in any sort of International Criminal court down the road thats the key thing the fact that they are in the hague now ive been talking to International CriminalCourt Investigators that is a huge deal and it cannot be stressed enough the significance because weve been hearing now for years from victims which is important is that is this is the 1st time that were hearing these sort of confessions from perpetrators. Exactly as you just mentioned a lot of what the soldiers are saying has already been said before and ledge before but it has to be that any action taken by me against members of the army so far. There has been a small number of soldiers who got on trial and get relatively light sentences again the army has been saying that there is no command from the top to do this that these were isolated incidents done by robes soldiers thats been the defense of the man army and the small number of soldiers whove been punished again these were closed courts theres been no transparency about any of this so theres been minimal done by that me and my army there their main argument has been all along that there is no orders from the top coming from this that this is not something organized on the top thats been the me and our army friends and thats the way theyve stayed so far really but there was a damn good about them in kuala lumpur thank you so much. A live action remake of a disney animated film is facing boycott calls from activists in hong kong thailand and taiwan. For news online last week is facing a bug if it was revealed. The film. Went off to a 1000000 years. By the Chinese Government the films lead was already facing criticism for her support of police in the cracking down on prodemocracy protests last year. Father cannot find a tale from chinese folklore that stirs National Pride disguises herself as a man to stand in for her ailing father in the army a sure fire hollywood blockbuster aimed at a giant market but the Films Production Company disney is facing accusations of ignoring human rights abuses for the sake of business activists are urging people to stay away from the movie. Now its time for people to through the action to let this need to know that cult out of china should not be the way out and for us at our parties and actors and also to Police Brutality the well respond and back fire to it and the outcry already began last year when the film star liu face expressed support for Hong Kong Police and chinese social media i. Rights groups and the un have accused police there of brutality in their response to prodemocracy protests in hong kong the irony of the situation has not been lost on some hong kong theres. I dont think i didnt get the character is that of a righteous person but lou said she supports Police Brutality the Police Brutality in hong kong what the police have done is completely unjust shes so different from the actual milan shes the opposite it is really ironic. Then last week more bad publicity it emerged that milan had been filmed at least partly in chinas shin junge province shin jiang is the homeland of the weaker people and ethnic and religious minority but china has been accused of systematically persecuting. A colony of detention camps there is believed to be holding and trying to brainwash over a 1000000 we china calls them Vocational Training centers. Usually. Youre saying that the film involves changing issues right. There are a few things id like to point out 1st theres no such thing as reeducation camps john. Credits expressly thanked chinese authorities and shin jiang including some blacklisted by the us for human rights violations. So what are the business interests behind the film director entertainment reporter Scott Proxmire address going off from venice where hes covering the Venice Film Festival scott good to see you how important is the Chinese Market for hollywood. Vitally important i mean china is already the 2nd largest box office. In the world just behind north america Something Like 1500000000. 00 in box office out of china last year and for the really big movies for the big sort of hollywood blockbusters they desperately need that market in order to really recoup their money and to make a make a major profit so china is seen as incredibly important and really the big Hollywood Studios will do everything they can not to annoy china Scott Hollywood has also been increasingly featuring chinese actors in Major International movies and also story lines to not specifically to the Chinese Market matt damon starting in the great wall of comes to mind is theres also a further example of how much hollywood needs the Chinese Market so it can succeed yes definitely and i think also shows the extent to which the hollywood is trying to appease the Chinese Market the Chinese Government you also maybe by have noticed that in recent hollywood films youll never see a chinese villain the chinese and the Chinese Government are always portrayed as heroes or at least helpers in the story lines that he was presenting and what i find is interesting though you mentioned the great wall with with matt damon a big attempt by hollywood to to make a real chinese movie with a Hollywood Star it failed completely it was a huge bomb showing that hollywood really doesnt know what the chinese audience wants or what the Chinese Government wants but still they keep trying and they keep sort of self censoring in order not to offend particularly the Chinese Government so enjoy the prodemocracy activist in hong kong says that it appears that it is something element of kowtowing to china on the part of hollywood and Big Companies like disney for example hes not wrong. No i completely agree with him i mean this isnt all of american filmmaking there are plenty of american filmmakers who make films that are critical of china but when it comes to the really big studios and the really big movies they desperately need and want the chinese audience in the box office the billions of dollars of box office that comes out of china and will do almost anything to. Avoid annoying the Chinese Government so they can get their films into that market because thats the big problem with china the Chinese Government controls what films are shown there so any Hollywood Studio has to get through that censorship system and they do kowtow completely they censor scripts they change characters there was a film dr strange movie it had a character from a comic book that was tibetan that was changed to a nontobacco character played by Tilda Swinton and that seems deliberately done in order to avoid offending the Chinese Government and that film of course was shown it did very successful was very successful in china speaking specifically about this firm and it was already facing backlash last year when the lead actress a few years a posted on social media in support of hong kong for news but on the mainland should receive a lot of support how much does approach imo stunts help with the firm success in the mainland. Well well see actually with this film because i dont think disneys pro china stance necessarily hurts it in america i dont think peop