credible elections within ninety days and who are says he supports dialogue as long as it doesn't threaten his nation's sovereignty iraq if he could. i consent to the plan that the montevideo mechanism is proposing supported by mexico you require countries in the caribbean and bolivia we are ready to participate in a process of sovereign and constitutional dialogue to look for a national agenda of agreements peace and understanding. still ahead on. anger in virginia after three of the state's top elected officials are engulfed in scandals more than democrats. dangerous rumblings of a crack a town volcano and the threat it poses to millions of people.

are going to welcome back to the national weather forecast for here across the western part of europe watching several weather systems making their way through now some of these are colleagues and very big problems in terms of the winds right now we have one pushing across parts of scandinavia and then into the northwestern part of russia over the next few days with then have another one coming in off the atlantic and this is going to bring some very gusty winds across parts of the u.k. as well as into eilidh notices when streams are here coming in from the southwest and that is means we could even see some power outages because of this very gusty winds rain along with that with london at about eleven degrees and then as we go towards saturday that makes its way more towards the north into parts of sweden here across much of the south though it is going to be cloudy down towards madrid we do expect to see a cloudy day for you with the time to there about thirteen degrees well here across the northern part of africa things have improved we did see one big weather system make its way towards the east bring some dust as well as some winds things are getting better you can see we are looking at partly cloudy conditions temperatures in the teens for most locations tripoli

a fifteen degrees there on friday as we go towards saturday much of the same across the region up here towards morocco though robot is going to be seeing a nice day for you at eighteen degrees and over here towards tunis we do expect to see a partly cloudy day for you with a temperature of about eighteen degrees there. as the geology of both sources. why are they so poor the measuring. would finally form of. the toxin when essentially nowhere the more we would push them the more they push back we knew it was coming to question was do we sit back and wait. to be surprised with a preemptive strike. or

not to top stories. you know the nation's human rights envoy looking into the killing of jamal khashoggi says the journalist suffered a violent death at the hands of saudi arabia. princes from the european union and latin america meeting in europe wise capital montevideo attempted to find a solution to the political standoff in venezuela. trucks carrying aid on their way through colombia to venezuela but on forces is still blocking the main route across the border. which from its reason may has held talks with e.u. leaders in brussels urging them to accept changes to the brics agreement or face the prospect of the u.k. leaving the block without a deal the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland is the main

sticking point has more. it wasn't a great start for the british prime minister and breaks it demonstrated dodged police and jumped in front of a car with fifty days left before britain officially leaves the e.u. some a feeling desperate. to resume ace back in brussels to try and reopen breaks it talks after the british parliament overwhelmingly rejected her withdrawal agreement last month british m.p.'s have demanded she find alternative arrangements over the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland something she's promised to do we must secure that in finding changes to the withdrawal of things to deal with the concerns the plant has over the banks storm and taking down changes to the backstop together with the other work that we're doing on workers' likes and other issues a stable doors in the image and that's what i will continue to push for now it's not going to be easy i'm clear the fight against mr bracks it gets delivered on

time that's what i'm going to do for that is public. knowledge in the coming days to do just that but there's a problem for to reason may be used refused to reopen the withdrawal agreement and renegotiate any new irish border arrangements the open borders protected by a twenty year old peace deal the good friday agreement that put an end to decades of sectarian fighting in northern ireland nobody wants to turn back the clock but the border question has made leaving the e.u. extremely complicated. brussels is determined to hold on to an insurance policy within the withdrawal agreement the so-called backstop designed to keep the irish border open if no arrangement is in place by the end of next year the u.k. automatically continues to be under e.u. trade policy there's also no way of unilaterally leaving the backstop nor any time limit on it and that's too much for some brick city is to stomach the u. is however prepared to offer more binding political commitments to avoid ever

having to use the backstop we are open as parliament from day one to upgrade his political decoration to make this political decoration more binding more precise also on the issue of the backstop explaining and saying very clearly that this is insurance and not more than that but persuading british politicians to back to reason may's breaks of plans may require more than promises this is the first last ditch attempts to finalize a deal british an e.u. brags that negotiators will meet on monday and to resume a will return to brussels at the end of the month but finding a plan to please her polity the british parliament and e.u. remains painfully out of reach the parka al-jazeera brussels. and other political battle is brewing in the e.u. this time between france and italy france has recalled its ambassador to rome after it is deputy prime minister luigi de mio met french yellow vest protesters on

tuesday italy's far right interior minister matteo salvini has weighed in saying he is happy to meet french president. in attempt to end a round it is populist leaders have repeatedly clashed with france over issues including migration sudanese protesters are calling for the release of activists detained during weeks of demonstrations against president bashir. the rally was called to express solidarity with the hundreds of people who've been arrested since pressure started in december human rights activists say at least forty five have been killed president bashir has acknowledged that growing economic hardship in sudan that angered young people and sent them out into the streets i never will i'm ridin i just saw them as all but the most really any citizen in this country any single person let alone a cognized parties each has a right we need to reach it down in order to take the country from

a deep rooted political crises. peace deal has been signed in central african republic aimed at ending years of civil war the deal was agreed by the government and fourteen on the groups after talks in sudan but after other similar peace deals collapsed recently that's not much hope in the country at this time will be any different trial stratfor reports. this muted a pause is perhaps a sign that repeated attempts at forging peace in central african republic have been far from easy. this historic date brings us face to face with our responsibilities together in celebrating our diversity and respecting our differences i call on you to work together to build a new central african republic central african republic rapidly descended into civil war in two thousand and twelve after the mainly muslim seleka group rebelled in the north they overthrew the christian president of course warbles easy

a predominately christian militia calling itself the. rose arc in posies as defense thousands of civilians have been killed since the former colonial power france sent troops under a u.n. mandate his fears grew of a possible genocide. a quarter of the country's foreign a half million people have been forced to flee their homes. the selecta were forced from power in two thousand and sixteen a former prime minister four star shown to our data was elected president but the celica still control around eighty percent of the country. are fighting off in iraq over mineral resources including gold diamonds and you. the latest peace deal was agreed after talks in sudan so. we've brought peace back from sudan harmony national unity a must know reconciliation. have been seven peace agreements over the years to end

one of africa's bloodiest conflicts in one of the poorest countries in the world all of. chance trafford on to zero. one of the largest aid convoys since the start of syria's war has reached a remote refugee camp on the border with jordan one hundred trucks brought food and medical supplies to thousands of syrians stranded in what band camp a convoy was organized by the syrian red crescent and the u.n. aid workers will also provide an emergency vaccination campaign for ten thousand children there rescuers in turkey are searching for survivors after a building collapsed in istanbul thirteen people have so far been rescued from under the rubble of a potluck came down without warning on wednesday evening at least ten people are confirmed dead it's believed others are still trapped rescuers on the scene say they're still hearing sounds coming from under the debris stephanie decker has more from the scene. rescue workers have been working meticulously sifting through the

rubble for this heavy machinery here that is if you've been lifting pieces of war we've seen pieces lifted out of there with one thing that we still need to be a kitchen sink attached to it there needs to be around fourteen apartments in this building they did manage to pull out a four year old girl from the rubble a lawyer earlier on thursday but there are people still missing or relatives here waiting for news of their loved ones and this is what one gentleman had to tell us . you know we are in a scene from really so she is still in the second floor building we're all feeling well we're close to some this is the kitchen section. with his child and one daughter restore raping and she will be ok this is an eight story building an official there saying that three of those stories were built illegally the moment of this building coming down on wednesday afternoon it was actually caught on

c.c.t.v. footage and you can see the building imploding and you can see the parts of the line here scuttling away with officials are saying that there is now an investigation into what exactly went wrong here this is a densely populated area is down below that it highlights the concern about the health and safety and the structural soundness of these buildings. three top elected officials in the u.s. state of virginia all of them democrats are embroiled in scandals involving race and sexual assault of the precious seems to be falling on the state's governor with protesters a senior politicians demanding he step down additional name has more on the crisis facing virginia's democratic party. even with protesters outside his mansion the loss of allies within his party and presidential candidates attacking him virginia governor rouse northam is refusing to resign the embattled democrat is hoping the political storm will pass and he can continue to lead i cannot in good

conscience choose the path that would be easier for me in an effort to duck my responsibility to reconcile. i took an oath to uphold this office and serve the people of this commonwealth to the best of my ability the scandal began with this leaked medical school photo in north america your book from one nine hundred eighty four two men one in black face and the other wearing a clue klux klan robe and hood neither recognizable initially northam admitted he was in the photo though never specified which man he was he apologized then the next day he changed his story and said he wasn't in the photo but it was too late many in the state were angry and began looking at who would succeed northam if he stepped down as the spotlight shifted to lieutenant governor justin fairfax the

highest ranking african-american politician in virginia days later a woman came forward saying fairfax sexually assaulted her in two thousand and four this is one of the most blatant to be. seen over something it's completely an operating system for the reason it's an operating system. on wednesday the third ranking elected official in the state attorney general mark herring released a statement saying he wore black face at a college party in less than a week's time all three constitutional officers of one state have been implicated in three separate scandals so i think that that is and that they both head on touchstones in american society so both in dealing with racism and with sexual assault and violence against women all three of the politicians are democrats if the men were to resign next in line would be the virginia speaker of the house of

delegates a republican natasha going to name al-jazeera is. france says its military military cooperation with cameroon will continue despite the united states withdrawing some of its assistance u.s. officials announced the suspension on wednesday accusing security forces in the west african nation of committing human rights violations it comes after videos circulated online appeared to show security forces shooting civilians cameron has cooperated closely with united states in the fight against the armed group boko haram scientists say a volcano that caused a tsunami in indonesia six weeks ago still poses an imminent threat well than four hundred people died in the disaster on the islands of java and sumatra set fasten reports from an hour in west java. this is what's left of the. after part of it collapsed on this number twenty two causing waves to crash into

the islands of java and sumatra now it's less than one third of its original size but scientists say it's still as dangerous. just weeks after the disaster these eruptions were caught on camera and try most i have regularly recorded despite that order to stay more than five hundred meters away from this sea have now been lifted that if we can't work here how do i get an income my children need to go to school and they need to eat i just hope it won't happen again that tsunami hit the tourist heart of west java badly and visitors have yet to return. though i continue. of last month's. bill their life despite warnings of more eruptions and possible more tsunamis people are now allowed to stay on the beach again but they're also warned the state. scientists say it's hard to predict the behavior of the so-called

child of the notorious cock up. that erupted so violently in eight hundred eighty three that its ashes course extraordinary sunsets worldwide inspiring to paint his famous work to screen. for another option like the one in eight hundred eighty three to happen again at the volcano needs a much larger volume but there is a high probability that an eruption and tsunami like on december twenty second will happen again harvey says the government should have been more alert after scientists had predicted it to nami a few months earlier research dating back to two thousand and twelve predicting the collapse of the volcano flanks was also ignored so vive us are planning to sue the government for negligence something. that happened in the industry could have been predicted because of the earthquake dangers in the area and there are options of a not. so the government. taken preventative measures so there wouldn't be so many victims in there while the case will be taken to court in the next few weeks and

akaka is rapidly recovering only a few weeks after its collapse the volcano emerged above sea level again making it clear that time is running out for the government to repair install warning systems and take protective measures to prevent another disaster from happening again step fasten al-jazeera i new west java and you can find plenty more on our website any time they just flat out zero dot com. let's take another look at the top stories making news here on out is there are united nations human rights and void looking into the killing of jamal khashoggi says the journalist suffered a violent death at the hands of saudi arabia in a statement about her preliminary findings and yes kalama said that mr hersh algy was the victim of a brutal and premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by officials of the state

of saudi arabia our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the un although it's an initial statement it's a pretty damning statement it's a continued embarrassment i think to saudi arabia which had hoped to put this behind them this is still out there and of course this is only a short statement and there is likely to be more to come because the investigation continues but israel is armed forces have blocked a major bridge where humanitarian supplies can enter the country trucks carrying aid are on their way through colombia opposition leader one guy doe who declared himself interim president last month has said the supplies must be allowed in but it comes as ministers from the european union and latin america meeting in euro guys capital montevideo attempted to find a solution to the political standoff in venezuela. but the u.k.'s prime minister has returned from brussels after yet war talks to try to change the terms of her

unpopular breaks it deal to resume a told you parliament members that there will be a backstop on the irish border in the final brics agreement with her demands for a renegotiation of the terms of the agreement her family rejected. its reason terria minister matteo salvini says he is happy to meet french president emmanuel mccall and attempt to end a diplomatic route so really he was responding to france's decision to recall its ambassador to rome for a new meeting between italy's deputy prime minister were due to my oh and french yellow vest protesters. in sudan protesters are calling for the release of activist attainder in weeks of demonstrations against president bashir the rally was called to express solidarity with the hundreds of people who've been arrested since protests started in december. those are headlines do stay with us for the stream which looks at iran's future direction forty years after the islamic revolution of

more use for you after that by for a. walk into the stream i'm femi oke and i'm really good today we look at a topic chosen by you our online community around forty is since the revolution now as events are held to mark the anniversary we'll look at what the future holds for the country senator comments and your questions via twitter and our you tube live chat. thanks to all who took part in this week's online poll to choose

a topic for today's show iran forty years after the revolution was the top choice there will be other opportunities to choose a show in a future poll but remember we are always happy to get your ideas reports coming shows just send them to stream on twitter joining us for today's discussion. she's an assistant professor of middle east studies at johns hopkins university. that is a journalist monitor who has reported extensively on iran he joins us from sienna italy. he is a ph d. candidate at the university of the iran she joins us from the iranian capital i feel i'm saddam we have geoffrey he is an historian focusing on iran hello everybody it's good to have you here let's start with some history it's forty years since the islamic revolution swept a wrong the events of early one nine hundred seventy nine were some ways to make the revolution of thoughts the ruling shah into exile and ended more than two

millennia of the monarchy for the first part of our discussion let's take a look back at how the revolution reshaped iran. looking at that speech that we knew what a minus six. is and there's still

a good parents. but you shared a picture with us which is about ten years to the iranian revolution when to show everybody here your little brother your your mom and dad what was the stories that they would tell you is kate's about that time. many of us started were stories of hope of the first few years first few months after the triumph of the revolution there were people were very excited there was a them and vibrancy and society that they hadn't experienced before and more than anything i hope for things being different but then another story that they would tell me and sort of immediately after those stories of hope were when my mother was pregnant with me and this was about two years after the revolution. and my father was a part of the leftist groups and then they were at my grandmother's funeral and during the funeral someone had tipped off the security and intelligence apparatus in their city and they stormed my grandmother's funeral looking for my dad and my uncle and

they had to run away and go underground for a few months so it's really those two stories for me kind of sum up in many ways different parts of the the revolutionary moments in which there was hope and then later this fierce repression i want to share on the back about another story from a member of our community on her family's experiences like you she was not born at the time of the revolution but she talks about what she learned about that time from her family this is this is what she told the stream. there's a lot of cultural trauma that exists around the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution many families were forced into exile and their security was at risk my family along with countless others had a different experience and they came to the us to pursue their education they actually wanted to return back to iran after graduating and unfortunately they were not able to as a child i always knew that my parents had immigrated miron and it was something that i was curious about i remember in school we had school projects about where your family's from and what your background is and that i had

a different experience than some of my classmates at that time in high school i became involved with an iranian organization in the diaspora and this ultimately led me to becoming more interested in learning about my history and led me to pursue studying middle eastern studies in university. says that they could hear what it's like room someone a member of the diaspora learning about her parents homeland what was it like for you as someone who grew up in iran. well the stories that i hear from my parents obviously because i was not born during the revolution. are just full of hope and aspirations for a better iran and iran would enjoy equality and social justice in also the rule of religion because the majority of the people at that time were really just so they're what they were all i hear from my parents and my

family members is about those aspirations. and also about a unity among people coming from. different and you know social backgrounds or even religious ideas they were all united in their aspiration for the and the to radical regime that was really involved every run. how the country remembers its milestones and so important to sort of national identity this moment is a moment that was set global they are many countries have a view of what the iranian revolution meant but for iranians not thinking of them but from a historian's perspective what did this moment mean well it was really a rupture it was a continuation of a development that started in the early twentieth century of iranians aspiring for democracy and fighting for it wanting to gain national independence because the

u.s. had always tried to interfere in iran there had been the one nine hundred fifty three could it so this was really a rupture and as the others were telling this was a moment of aspiration and high hopes so for everyone and it also inspired lots of people around the world everybody was looking to iran. the iranian revolution to achieve a better iran. but from that historians point of view i want to share with you two perspectives that we're seeing online and these are from people who are not in iran anymore this is daniel who says as you may know after khomeini hijacked the iranian people's revolution for freedom its forces began to crack down heavily on society my family had no option but to leave iran in the one nine hundred eighty s. and become refugees due to christian persecution they haven't returned back so there is antagonism there for the islamic revolution but here on the other side is

a view that several people in the us share but perhaps not so in iran this. please mention in your program that everything the revolutionaries and global media said about the shah was pure propaganda against him iranian people have a strong sense of respect for the policies and the salad for ron under them and i was going to give this you pay money but as i was reading i can see that it's not as face there kind of smile ironically what are you thinking as i read this well the first thing that i have to tell you is. this twitter account how it's used is the name of. t.v. series. in iran right now. but that's word really really. really coming from her so. i mean it was funny how the words were put together. well i definitely do not agree with

the. person and. character in the series. i think you know one thing to remember is that. they run a revolution was a mass revolution so it was and relatively during the time of the revolution itself not extremely bloody and so this was a massive revolution against the shah and i you know i understand people have different views but that's one thing we can't forget that no matter what ended up happening after the revolutionary period itself and how people feel about the outcome of the revolution the revolution itself was a massive movement against the shah before we just move on to it so what's happening right now i just i want to show one side from nine hundred seventy nine your family now some of the earliest memories that kids have

a when the about three years old you would about see. what do you remember. well i do remember the first years where i was participating with my mother into the most gracious. on a very early stage but i particularly remember devoir period of course that the war started in september one nine hundred eighty between iraq and iran and it had a massive impact actually on the course of the revolution because like other revolutions russian revolution of war broke out and it's the consequence of actually. making the state stronger in consolidating its power and repressing the oppositional forces so i think the war really dramatically changed the course of the revolution. there and i want to take that point to push on a little further let's move on to life in iran now while the

a summit republic has stood firm in the face of continuous opposition from countries including the united states many iranians have expressed discontent at how the country is run people who remember the days of the revolution are split on how things have gone sense how to look at this. of us sure we didn't achieve what we wanted things have changed and revolutionary values have now worn out today unfortunately we still suffer from discrimination favoritism corruption and lying even more than it's any time under the shame of the has which now. i am not dissatisfied with my current situation or my job and income it is true that some people are complaining about high prices but they should put things in perspective and be more tone. saying i want to bring you in here as we talk about what life is like now with this tweet from iraq she says i thirty one am very proud of our great one nine hundred seventy nine revolution that brought down a dictatorship and fought for freedom and equality the corrupt dictatorship ruling

iran today has no right to claim the legacy of the great event since it has betrayed its ideals brazenly in your view saeed to the ideals and ideas of the revolution still hold. well i think we still have we still have some kind of some crimes of faith that people are still follow for example people forty years ago went to the streets for for asking the freedom for asking their independence they were there they were against the big ship they were asking for democracy the situation now i think in some extent this changed. but these concepts are not that of they are not absolute we still have to work we have to continue to trying to achieve to our goals if we can stay in some kind in some cases we can. be very successful but in some extent no we have to continue to overcoming obstacles in

already. yes but i'm going to add something to that yes it's going well as a historian again i'm always very interested in both change and continued to be as i was telling the iranian revolution really brought massive change to iran if you think of the expansion of political participation now i guess was already saying that it was a massive revolution so millions of people participated in that river lucian and also demanded political say so we in content free run we see people actually engaging in political debates participating in many simple councils. neighborhood organizations etc on the other hand on fortunately there is also continue with the with the previous regime to dictatorship of the shot was toppled but power has been our consent treated equally among the elite around the supreme leader so a participatory population is actually now clashing with those political

limitations so this these are really the contradictory outcomes of that revolution so it's not black and white we have to see both the changes and the continuities so that i have that. this time going one time but you are actually moving in have on do you concur wow i think it's the first part i would agree with both. analyst on the show that. iran. iranian revolution the islamic revolution of iran was a massive movement and all types of people took part in the movement and. all the mom khomeini the one. cars magic leader that. managed to unite all the people everyone how to share on it and one of the greatest

aspirations of the iranian people was to have a share in the decision making of the country and i think to agree to stand out has been achieved nothing is perfect like many other countries have dynamic democratic system which has its own faults and needs to be like updated and reformed every every few years so i'm not one hundred percent happy with everything that happens around our political decision making but i am very happy in the progress that i see making is being made and i'm very hopeful about a future of the country because as i see people of my generation my age who did not witness the years of the revolution but who. you know and here to those ideals are coming into the scene they are taking to the. new political iran

and having a greater share so. one thing that i feel needs more improvement on is having even a greater share for the young people in who live in iran i'm glad you mentioned the young people there now because i want to go to you with this this anecdote here from i mean who says when i visited iran in one thousand nine. thousand them more adapt to the new normal than the older generation who were found lamenting in the construct environment and cherish the past and they go on to write when the revolution came the pendulum swung. from one extreme to the other and is now settling in the middle iran needs no intervention and is capable of sorting its own issues the settling in the middle is the part of hoping you can pick up on what's your thought on the yeah i mean i think you know. one of the things is. that we're saying there is this incredible you know in any society that has

a revolution and it's a massive revolution people are involved in the political process i mean it's very involvement that brings an old regime down and brings a new regime in and so that did not go anywhere even though there was repression people were finding different ways to make their political voices heard and mobilizing from the bottom and they would mobilize from the bottom of things that they didn't like and it would force the system to compromise so that is definitely there and i think as you know the person on twitter mentioned it really is the generations that came after the revolution the ones who were born in the eighty's and the ones who were born you know in the ninety's and early two thousand that i think are beginning to make significant changes in iran on a cultural and social level and those are things that are constantly being given take with the government but one of the things i would say that the values of the revolution some of them i think are gone but i think one of the ones that has them that hasn't been a race is this clear. desire for independence and i think that is something that in

the generations that have come after the revolution even if they no longer agree with the government or even if they are extremely frustrated by the government they do embrace this identity that iran needs to be an independent nation free from sort of the neo colonial and colonials environments in which the revolution came out of let's just push on just one more time because i want to look at the what that holds for iran the vast majority of the population posts with additionally rule but what will the country look like in a few years time and will its outlook on the world change some people want to stop by abandoning one phrase that's also ruddy's over many years is death to america. the slogan death to america is wrong we shouldn't want death for any country when we want death for someone they want the same for us. as our officials say death to

america but some of their children now live and study their dollar bill for this slogan is not a good thing because it explicitly calls the other side hostility it's not enough i never said it i never will not all people in iran say it so easy can see the western journalists really seem to cause anything that looks like the iranians are challenging that a society and their relationship with iran have you seen that change over the us and do you think that will change in the future. well i think we still have some some cliche that didn't change during the during the years for example some slogans that you showed in your in your video some people. comment about the best america this is maybe it's some of the some of the cliche that we have to maybe during the week in the years we have to change it but yeah i think in arthur to your question

yeah i think you change the situation is changed. by ideology and our. government our political system is going to be creased their radical radical attitude. for example you cannot compare the situation now days with their what happened in the first first months and first years of the revolution for example we didn't have any good relationship with the world with the european countries with even. our neighbors so you can see you can see these. change land aren't yes second i get. about the slogan that a part of the video was i mean covering that in iran i should mention that there are a lot of people who still chant that slogan and the farsi words that we use for it

does not really mean. that's for a nation it's directly. i mean addressing the american government and we have a lot of reasons to chant that slogan against the american regime because. they they support the shah they were one of the ones who gave for a future to shah after he plundered iranian nation's wealth and ran away from the country they are the one who are trained and armed a lot of terrorist groups against iran they are the one who are in the brutal regime against iran they are the ones who are still sanctioning iranian people and blocking. you know like draw exe and medicine on in iran so iranian people have a lot of reasons to hate the u.s. regime and you can ask american people who have traveled to iran how welcome they

have felt were were i cannot even say hatred where reason to feel that the u.s. is our enemy is based on reason based on statistics that can and based on history so it's very important to make a distinguish between the two that the people the people who are chanting that a slogan. actually do or not getting that from the from the only from the iranian government and yes that's true that there are you know governmental officials who may chant the same slogan because the people the majority of the people are. those slogans while their own children are living in those countries and that these are the grievances that exist among the iranian people and actually in the lake recent maastricht as that have been whether pro-government or anti-government they all have i hear you there and i think it's interesting because

despite all of those facts in the u.s. particularly you still have viewpoints like that this is ali he says iran has been a pain in the neck for the u.s. so i hear those points in those historical facts and yet you still see this discourse but i want to push on just a little bit because i wanted to get the view from someone who's looking at this from a historic perspective this is shervin associate professor assistant professor here in the u.s. and this is what he told the string we underestimate how deeply dislike republicans compromise by its own etiology should be unsurprising that a state ostensibly committed to the mobilization of self-reliance and righteous men and women forever vigilant in the struggle against injustice around the world should find its own citizens demanding the same commitment to the injustices thank you place in their own backyard that the system continues to come up short in this regard guarantees that we will continue to see protests and mass mobilization iran not to overthrow the regime but to press it to do its job to live up to its promise

payment and at about a couple of sentences your take on that video. totally agree agree with that and i want to add to the fact that you know independence is still very important for iranians but i think they do have a problem with perversion of independence into something of continuous animosity and creating you know fortress relationships with other countries in the world because there is a long tradition internet around in history that goes really to the twentieth century that is fighting against domestic dictatorship and fighting against foreign imperialism as well ok and i think what iranians really want is coupling both having both of them. democracy. thank you so much for your thoughts on the iranian revolution the anniversary forty years after it occurred in really a time and of the get your comments or so i did. come forward slash the stream

and also have a look at. because they can pick different shows to vote for and if the highest vote. and so what. filters state one of nigeria's largest producers of oil is gradually becoming a safe haven for business kinds pleasure talking with a lot of investors of that company and that we're going to see many of those since crystalline infrastructure is a span across different sectors are being put in place come and experience still to state.

in the first time lines of moments between. me out where the first settlements formed the cradle of civilization iraqi people have depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by womb and pollution algis their world reveals how the manmade decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. it's fourteen years since i was home a humming the return from exile to lead a historic revolution in iran. a moment the transformed the country shape surrounds relationship with the wider world to this day join us for special coverage of the iranian revolution forty years on al-jazeera take the worst possible material you radio ground into dust comparable for flour and make

a whole lot of it and put it into a place where people live it is a cause a loss in the battle. as well and so many people i feel to this are the silent. but doesn't make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. hello i'm lauren taylor in london the top stories on our jazeera the u.n. human rights envoy looking into the killing of jamal khashoggi says the journalist suffered a violent death at the hands of riyadh in a statement about her preliminary findings and yes kellam are said that mr herzog was the victim of a brutal and premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by officials of the state of saudi arabia she also called into question the saudi response in the days after

his death saying that willfully inadequate time and access was granted to turkish investigators to conduct a professional and effective crime scene examination and search required by international standards for investigation our diplomatic editor james bays is at the u.n. with more. this is just her initial statement it's only a week ago that she was in istanbul that she went to the consulate where jamal khashoggi was killed looked at from outside what happened there and also of course listened to that recording was played that recording by turkish officials which we believe is a recording of his last moments alive and then of his murder but although it's an initial statement it's a pretty damning statement it's a continued embarrassment i think to saudi arabia which had hoped to put this behind them this is still out there and of course this is only an initial statement

and there is likely to be more to come because her investigation continues trucks carrying humanitarian aid from the u.s. have arrived at colombia's border with venezuela the venezuelan government is still refusing to let the supplies enter the country opposition leader one by doe declared himself interim president last month has said the aid must be allowed in but it's unclear how that will happen without the support of venezuela's military still backs president nicolas maduro. i mean all this venezuelan people are becoming increasingly desperate inflation is expected to hit ten million percent this year and there's a dire need for food and medicine to risible has more. we're here at this hospital in the city of dallas to learn in this state and so are they get this is about four hours away from the capitol got access there's all of this long lines of people with children waiting to be treated the reason why is because most of them are suffering from body bob meaning and diarrhea the main course we're being told is

that a pipeline broken contaminated the drinking water you can see the amount of children that are just waiting here for them to get treatment when you were able to go inside the hospital and there are at least three children in each one of those beds the doctors are telling us that they simply do not have a syringe is untied by all takes and many of the other thing they need in order to be able to treat them so far fourteen children have already died here because of this issue two of them died last night all of this is happening as president. appeared on state television. saying that venezuela is getting ready to fulfill its own need well a pharmaceutical among other things is also saying that we won't allow humanitarian aid into the country the request by the united nations and n.g.o.s is that both sides the government and the opposition not politicize the current situation the humanitarian crisis that exists here and that their main objectives should be to

help those who are in the. a group of european unless american nations meeting and year ago i says it will send a technical team to venezuela international contact group says the mission will help provide humanitarian aid and support your lections a soon as possible meanwhile the u.s. state department says the time for dialogue with president maduro is over and has announced it is imposing visa bans on members of the pro-government constituent assembly. you case prime minister has returned from brussels off to get more talks to try to change the terms of her unpopular breaks it deal to resume a told you parliament members that there will be a backstop on the irish border in the final breaks that agreement but our demands for a renegotiation of the terms of the agreement were firmly rejected as the headlines coming up how the u.s. and taliban held secret negotiations to build a pipeline through afghanistan taliban oil is up next hour more news for you after

that thanks for watching so you know it. we started this thing i mean know who the taliban were and i didn't know how radical they were just what they were about. one of the things of the talabani as

is they they didn't have a clue about oil and gas business the idea was was to bring him over and establish credibility with it with the taliban that we were a real company. multi millon secretly invited a group of taliban leaders to unit cows headquarters in sugar land texas. no press covered the event. i have some the statues that i got in indonesia and their figures and the people carved out of iron wood and the people are neck it. and i had that one of these professors islamic professors check my house out when he saw these things he said i

don't think that's going to work with the taliban. said well with this you got some black trash bags of the adhesive put workers on the spot that's what they did with the burgers on the statue. and. marty miller was a vice president of oil company unocal. they wanted to build a huge oil and gas pipeline through taliban controlled areas of afghanistan. but how did these negotiations influence us foreign policy towards the taliban. and. i am.

lucky. enough can capital of kabul is preparing for a new iraq foreign forces mostly was drawn from the afghan soldiers and police will now be responsible for security in the country. but in twenty forty five thousand of them were killed in battle is against the taliban. but the taliban hasn't always been an enemy of the west today their former foreign secretary lives in a heavily guarded house in one of couple's better suburbs. during the ninety's he was involved in discussions with the american oil company unocal. i will take my advice you will cause in a lot of. those there are

a lot of new just for which the. then one of the men jewish. that owns it is. enough as a loophole for the lid to be political will come but it's not as if the he wants that if they bought the levee of etiquette i took as long as i was at it he out of it by the homeless but that's it because he will have of my psyche of. those if i there was that they think it will last. since the soviet invasion of afghanistan in one nine hundred seventy nine the country has been in a state of constant new face. during the afghan insurgency the mujahideen received extensive weapons support from the united states and britain in their struggle against the russians. and.

the soviet occupation ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. two years later the soviet union full song collapsed. you know cows c.e.o. john saw an opportunity in the full of the iron curtain. at the time the soviet union broke up and china opened up which shop and more last sametime read a very senior guy. kind of cruising the former soviet union to look for opportunities. where you realize that turkmenistan had a huge world's last gas reserves which were produced by the soviet union but after breaking up they were not produced any longer because russia had his own gas supplies to bring to market from siberia so turkmenistan was stock was reserves and no market. unocal wanted to build two pipelines one

for oil and one for gas the pipelines would go from many stunned through afghanistan pakistan and india a distance of well over seventeen hundred kilometers construction costs would be close to ten billion dollars. of damage done could earn four hundred million dollars per year in transportation costs which would more than double the afghan government's income at that time the whole area is just in turmoil you know the pakistanis don't like the afghans afghans don't like the fact stan is the turkmen are skeptical of both of them and then you've got india and pakistan all is just a mess in there. just. as he gets set up there was

a power vacuum off to the withdrawal of soviet forces and local schools foot of the territory in a for truxton civil war and. you guys are. going to go. in the north people gathered around the northern alliance and its leader ahmed shah massoud the so-called lion of publishers. in the south and east another movement began to assert itself in s. nic past june areas they called themselves the taliban and was supported militarily by pakistan then in conflict with india. the pakistanis were trying to them.