people are suffering he said people have to suffer they have to keep it together keep together to actually try to put down what you doing. mohammed raise a taj is one of iran's and many revolutionaries he reflects on life changing events forty years ago with the style during pride. well before i. may need to power the hem of the razor defected from the shazam e joining the revolution. he went on to fight in iran iraq war of the nineteen eighties hundreds of thousands were killed and maimed among them mohammed raises a younger brother how many that raises. our belief in personal sacrifice for the revolution is our spiritual leader says we are the victorious ones because our enemies cannot put pressure on us militarily they are doing it

economically and culturally. mohammad reza says he's against moderates in government and believes foreign influence is to blame for economic problems outside of a city festooned with the colors of the islamic republic of iran many people now speak openly about economic hardship. but forty taxi driver a nola reza is as old as the revolution he says he can't pay his bills. no matter how much he cut back on my spending i can make both ends meet i'm distraught i've got two children aged eight and thirteen for decades since the revolution of a population of more than eighty million and there's a big gap than ever between the rich and the poor the economic situation getting worse and made much more critical by the u.s. sanctions has led to high youth unemployment and inflation increasing by the day

that's leading to subdued anger in many parts of iran. it's likely to get worse for the people before it gets better reimposed u.s. sanctions are now forcing more countries to stop importing oil from iran its main driver for growth we spoke to some iranians who say people have to show resilience . the issue has to be so we should all have the same goal we should protect our revolution from being. before he finishes speaking a bystander interrupts with her view of the revolution i'm going to right back here it has driven us to dismiss very and poverty people are poor and they have nothing left. young people in this crowded setting talk of leaving iran once they've graduated from university this twenty year old plans to move to canada to work as

a nurse i don't see my future here i don't think i can find a good job most of a rain and wind to. integrate. the divide between an often stoic older generation and younger people has undoubtedly grown since mama razor and others brought down a monarchy but he insists nothing can break the spirit of iran's revolution. and so the views of some iranians in a situation that gets more difficult by the day and where does this all lead well this is a landmark moment of this anniversary being celebrated marked in this way there is going to be a conference in warsaw a summit effectively which has been sponsored by the united states very controversial iran is describing this as an anti rain million gathering which is hostile to its interests european diplomats are concerned about it as well where

does this all lead the question is what the united states can really carry on with this policy in an affective way because the europeans are trying to keep the nuclear deal alive it is still the it still exists there is still big restraints here being observed by the international energy automaker and the authority and so therefore it's still in place is america risking a dangerous collapse or not there is a lot of concern about this situation it isn't over by any means it potentially could be getting worse andrew symonds live in tehran now we can get his aim and zane's inmarsat that is one of iran's largest religious shrines and around second city how does iran's fortieth anniversary of the revolution look from where you are. the world in many of the cities like much like home and the city with religious schools

universities and seven areas these are places that are in many ways a ron's religious heartlands they are strongholds for conservative leaders for those who have conservative religious and political beliefs and so here despite the economic struggle that iran has no doubt been facing very harshly for the last year but for many years despite that economic hardship. in the capital tehran created a great deal of disillusionment in the clerical system of government for the clerical system of government that's been in place for four decades in places like this people are unwavering in unflinching in their support of the islam and ideals that many people say the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution was a referendum for many people we spoke to here said that the decision was made back then through rebellion through revolution that iran in perpetuity be governed as an islam a country with islam laws in islam and ideals leading the way for both public and

private life so for those people they don't seem to be affected by the economic difficulties they've been facing certainly this is a more conservative place the twenty seven thousand protest against overpricing many of those protests started here by leaders of other political parties some rouhani doesn't have a great deal of support in places like this but the support for the supreme leader for the institution that you represents many people here are unwavering in their support of that they really see the company as a kind of sajjan from a family of revolutionary a leads that brought. government to iran and for them the commemoration of what happened the events that happened forty years ago isn't just an excavation of history if you will it's an opportunity an annual opportunity to reinforce islamic ideals to reinforce anti western sentiment and then bring the past to the present and reinforce that political and social status quo in modern

day iran. zain mansour avi live from. iran thank you. we got on want to come on this. clue where is jamal khashoggi his body saudi arabia says it still doesn't. get a younger and loud protests for a full day against haiti's president. and inspired fresh concerns for a whole strange thing. in britain there's more cases of echoing flu are detected peter will be here with a teacher and. a top u.s. official is in afghanistan in the latest step towards trying to end the seventeen year war act in defense secretary patrick shanahan has made the unannounced visit to the capital kabul to meet u.s. military officials as well as the afghan president ashraf ghani that we talking

national security shanahan says it's crucial the government is peace talks with the taliban so far it's been sidelined because the taliban regards the government as illegitimate. so while donald trump talks about pulling u.s. troops out i saw is making inroads in afghanistan and it's attracting fighters pushed out of syria and iraq tony berkeley reports now from the mountainous border regions very close to pakistan. in the wild and rugged areas of eastern afghanistan life is difficult at the best of times now it has become the main battleground against i saw a fight that i saw is not losing these militia know the capability of the men their fighting commander zeitoun knows better than most he was and i saw fighter this is video of him when he was with the armed group he joined for idealistic reasons he says he left when he witnessed the brutality. i saw was very cruel to everyone

they killed people slaughtered them they used bombs they did whatever they could i had to leave his advice three assassination attempts the last a few days ago when a magnet bomb was attached to his car in a crowded marketplace killing one of his men and badly injuring him people here are scarred and scared by ice all the group launches regular attacks from mountain hideouts and bloodshed is a constant fear two goals nine sons were killed by i saw one was hacked to death with an axe or. i don't have power to take my revenge otherwise i would have hammered him all over his body from head to toe i would keep him for a week and then let him die slowly because that is what he deserves. with the afghan army overstretched in the fight against the taliban militias are the first line of defense in one go home province where some good there's an alert they are tough and not far from here if we leave this area they will come back to destroy

this place again but we will fight again until we die then the other queues these militias have only basic arms and equipment they say is insufficient to really fight i still they need more and us air power alone is not enough to destroy eisel bases or prevent their operations that needs to happen on the ground the network of tunnels and i saw hideouts in the tora bora mountains are easy to defend and almost impossible to attack from the ground commander zeitoun points out the spot where the americans dropped their biggest non-nuclear bomb containing ten thousand kilos of explosives to try and destroy eisel positions the militias say it made no difference. if the u.s. paid the amount they spent on this mother of all bombs we could have finished deisel. local commanders say that eisel here has men from chechnya turkey and pakistan in its ranks but communities fear that if i saw he's pushed out of syria

it will rebase to afghanistan that. is it and this was the foreign fighters a very cruel and don't have sympathy for anyone from the local i still have at least some feeling for afghans but foreign eisel are cruel or their hearts are made of stone on the battlefield i still may be contained for now but it's taking ground in the propaganda war last week afghan security services arrested a cleric and a professor who are alleged to be eisel spies western diplomats report that afghan universities have become fertile ground for eisel recruitment one car university in jalalabad was closed for a time last year so recruiters and sympathizers could be cleared out. of this. but there's not people who are using illicit deal for political lethal together gargling can bring that ideas to work again the interest of the country in the remote militia outpost facing eisel positions the hope is they get western support and weapons before they have to encounter the battle hardened men who will lose

syria but not a cause tony berkeley al jazeera eastern afghanistan. now the world's insects are on the road to extinction and could very well vanish within one hundred years that's the finding of the first global review of decades of research into insect populations scientists say the findings a frightening and a catastrophic threat to our ecosystems met anna holmes reports. they're beautiful sometimes bothersome but without in six scientists say life on earth is under three a global review of studies into one sick population shows they're declining eight times faster than mammals birds and reptiles at that rate the world and six could disappear completely within one hundred years. maize. is built in six and nine six disappear in

a hole. if the insects disappear we're going to disappear to the whole agricultural system the pens among other things on the insects that are most vulnerable to extinction to control the other insects which compete with us for our crops so this is a a brilliant paper but at the same time one that scares the pants off of any biologist who understands how the world works it's not just the place of in six in the food chain that has scientists worried that poland that plants purify the soil and waterways recycle waste and have an important role in pest control and their numbers are declining by two and a half a cent every year while climate change and been a zation our fact is scientists point to the intensification of agriculture as the main culprit the report's authors say in sick decide to have little real bearing on food production part of the solution is the art of all of how the world grows its

food to be more environmentally friendly it's an overly optimistic paper because it mentions. the things that we should be doing in order to avoid the extinction of the insects the point is we're not doing any of them. this isn't the first time scientists from around the world have issued a warning about three pts to humanity the first was back in one thousand nine hundred ninety three the second was just last year a problem as they say too few a paying attention made in the hunt al-jazeera. time for the weather now is rob and robot looks as they are taking us to the hawaiian islands which sounds like yes it's no resurface paradise you know trade winds big fetch big waves this is a winter storm that did quite the opposite now it's coming down in code you can see it circular they happen every now and again the wind and of course given the big expensive ocean and nothing to stop with the winds get very violent there with the

waves opposed and sells and has been no damage if at least one person killed on their islands the cause of this storm so not the paradise you might like and some of the wind ways with twenty beaches in height again in normal conditions i love this but not in a storm of this magnitude so the weather's unsettled in this part of the pacific ocean of course the general flow is take everything to the u.s. and also the majority of the cold air has come all the way if science now has for the stream of storms has produced this resto for on the strip in las vegas the majority of proper snow has been further north but even here in seattle you can expect i mean the things sixteen millimeters on the ground over the averages for has been the snowiest february seventy years and that's a so far but winter care is on a pace in the u.s. with the cold air covering most states towards kept in this this wavy line here of course is where you expect to find most of the weather where the temperature contrast is so you've got rain stretching from texas northeast snow in the northern flank now that's going to continue for the next two days but so too is the snow

potential in seattle itself. still to come here on this al-jazeera news. nigeria africa's biggest economy. with the largest number of people there preparing for elections. in sport to form a new one come made entirely of lego they will tell you how much it sold for i don't show. up. largest democracy goes to the polls to elect a president parliament and govern this corruption insecurity and economic uncertainty that dominate nigerian politics remain widespread al-jazeera brings you coverage of the issues the candidates and voters nigeria which. with the most eight billion people in the world production is under increasing

strain to communicate with a growing global population sirrahs environmental solutions program discovers new ways of feeding the world sustainably. eighty thousand just from this bit of liquid that's unbelievable. see there's the vegetable of the scene right there. on al-jazeera.

television a lot of the top stories here in the hour jazeera news hour venezuela's president says his military is ready to fight the u.s. and other enemies but opposition leader and self declared interim president won by dough walls president but during a blocking aid saying it's almost genocidal to do so. the acting u.s. defense secretary is on an unannounced visit to afghanistan patrick shanahan says government involvement in peace with the taliban is crucial to ending the seventeen year war the taliban regards the government is illegitimate. iranian president hassan rouhani is vowing to continue the expansion of iran's ballistic missile program he's addressed tens of thousands in tehran on the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution. well now we can speak to ford is a professor of world studies a terror on university and he's joining us from iran's capital city thank you very much indeed the tone of defiance coming from president rouhani who is generally

considered to be a reformist as it shifted as a consequence of the tough stance being taken by the trumpet ministration. i think so i think when he came into office about six years ago his main goal in foreign policy was to improve relations with the west what trump did to him has caused him to speak in terms that you heard today expanding iran's missile program and threatening united states back given the fact that u.s. has certain to attack iran so i think you see a shift not only in rowhani but people around him people the very far foreign minister here and others and the whole generation of iranians that thought that maybe reducing tensions with the versed was something that could happen during their lifetime and i don't think they believe that anymore if there's a tension or a hostility or of a feeling of resentment that extends to europeans as well because of course the

europeans all apparently desperately trying to save what remains of the nuclear deal they set up this this payment mechanism in order to try and circumvent the u.s. sanctions so does this hostility extend to them as well. i think so europeans have done little things not anything serious that terminology too little too late i think applies to europe and. tart that europe would actually be able to offset some of the negative effects of u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear agreement in europe hasn't done that much so when we say that the best lost an opportunity to improve relations with iran being could europe in that and i don't see anything serious coming up in the next few months.

if europe continues to activate they do i don't think you see any improvements if the u.s. which is publicly stated that it's pursuing a policy of maximum pressure against iran we know the hawks in in the administration like john bolton really want to see regime change in tehran where do you think that is going to take the political the political framework within the country could we see iran becoming ever more active in the region for instance which is something of course that the americans are particularly displeased with you know given the fact that the nuclear agreement to the united assess didn't really work out and others didn't do much to save it i think iran will be iran iran of the last ten years twenty years forty years bolton was very much in people's mind today as they were walking in line with what the government wanted to come and participate in the demonstrations today because he predicted iranians wouldn't see

the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution so people are laughing at bolton because his predictions are not in the anything that you can take seriously and i think he's going to be disappointed as he continues to finish his them and get out of the white house. forward is r.d. thank you very much for talking to us live there from tehran thank you it's a saudi arabia says it doesn't know where the body of the murdered journalist jamal khashoggi is in an interview and u.s. t.v. the minister of state of foreign affairs said the kingdom is still investigating addle algea bear accused turkey of not sharing intelligence jamal khashoggi was killed in an october in the saudi consulate in istanbul. where is jamal khashoggi body we don't know what do you mean you don't know we don't know they said that the prosecutor is working to try to establish this fact we have asked for

evidence from turkey asked them several times formally through formal legal channels to provide evidence we are still waiting to receive and you have been streaming out there france has insisted on dialogue to try to solve the ongoing gulf crisis for train cutter and for arab nations the french and the cattery foreign ministers discuss the issue here in doha along with other regional disputes including libya yemen and palestine both countries have agreed on dialogue for a strategic partnership on defense on the economy and counterterrorism saudi arabia the u.a.e. dark reign and egypt cut ties with cata claiming it supports terrorism a charge which it denies. africa's most populous nation is to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on saturday the president mohamed who bihari is running again for a second term and election commission office meanwhile has been burnt down but that

doesn't seem to dampen the fervor ahead of the big day our correspondent armitage's reports now from my degree in the northeast of the country where preparations are under way. nigeria's president. in the final push for votes ahead of the country's presidential election. it's been a long tough campaign season. his main challenger is businessman and former vice president. who vows to deny him a second term. as a competing groups to close attention shifts to the election commission which has come under close scrutiny and attacks will we go to the left the party accuses us of pandering to the opposition party will we go to the right do position party accuses us of plunder into the weeds like up with this of the of the of the of the ruling party but as a commission we have swung to do what is right to look at the justice of the case

also to make sure that our primary cause you to remember is the nigerian people and the voting public voting machines have been delivered across the country ballot papers will follow last minute tests are underway the election commission has registered one to one political party someone to three of these are vying for the post of president election officials say they are ready despite the logistical challenges now what is on the other hand some difficulties of well they have to go through a list of ninety one political parties on the ballot to choose their candidate. some three hundred thousand policemen will provide security during the vote along with thousands of other security personnel. the army is also ready to help. but this warning is sort of to stick clear of politics.

the biggest task goes to the voters more than eighty four million people are registered their job is to elect the president one hundred and nine senators and three hundred sixty members of house of representatives two weeks later protests will be asked to come out again to choose governors and members of state brotherhoods. other trees. northeast nigeria. is a law say of the african union summit in the capital egypt's president. is taking over as chairman from rwanda president paul kagame me and that see end of his reformist tenure at the helm of the organization this year has focus is to be refugees and internally displaced people. seventeen australian residents are believed to have

been detained in china as part of a crackdown on the muslim we get minority activists say the individuals with their visiting relatives when they were arrested about a million wages have believed to be held in camps against their will the chinese government though says the cancer voluntary and designed to stamp out extremist tendencies of the australian government says it's not aware of any residents being held in china andrew thomas has more now one sitting. there are about three thousand chinese people of the week at this is he here in australia and i spoke to the representative of that community on monday and she's told me that while she's very reluctant to go public with her concerns she feels she's getting nowhere behind closed doors with the australian government she's concerned about seventeen we get chinese people living in australia either on spouse visas or as permanent residents here in australia those are people who've returned to china for short

holidays and then disappeared initially that had their passports confiscated and then they've just gone off the radar people in their families here just do not know what has happened to them and they say they've been asking a straight in government to find out what's happened to them whether even they're alive or dead for some months and i'm just not getting on says the lady i've spoken to says that if these were australian citizens rather than permanent residents then she thinks a lot more would be done she says she's spoken to people in the u.s. state department who say that if they were u.s. residents the u.s. state department would have done a lot more to find out what was going on but she doesn't think enough is being done by camera to find out what has happened to these people. have been a fourth successive day of anticorruption protests in haiti demonstrators are demanding the resignation of the president priyanka gupta reports. protesters in haiti's capital port au prince i'm not giving out but a fourth successive day they marched in the hundreds torching cars outside

government offices. and demanding the pressure to juvenile maurice to resign. darwood juvenile really going to burn the country down if he does not step down. protests to say the government is corrupt and is ignoring the hardships the twice by earthquakes hurricanes and a cholera epidemic he do you realize it employs for vital commodities such as oil rice and wheat the rate of inflation has risen fifteen. cent over the past two years while the value of the currency the cord has fallen against the dollar people in one of the world's poorest countries simply can't afford what they need. we are tired of these killers down with juvenile we're tired of these drug dealers and all of the people and. a report by haiti's auditors last week accuse several former government ministers and officials of a bestselling development venezuela over the past eleven years protests to say the

government isn't doing enough to mystically to company headed by marie said the time after two years in power he's resisting demands to step down instead he's calling for national unity. we went to elections are part of the population voted i am president i am ready to speak to all my brothers and sisters over the difficulties the country is facing to my brothers and sisters in the opposition the doors open so as to reach a solution his critics say those are just empty promises this is why. the government makes the budget just for them this is not how you provide change the government took their money and spent it on themselves on people who don't deserve it. he is the poorest country in the western hemisphere protest to say their corrupt leaders must face justice until then they will not stay silent priyanka gupta out syria. in the us there could be another government shutdown

after talks store the head of the friday deadline to get asians and border security funding collapse after republicans and democrats failed to agree on the immigrant detention policy president trump agreed last month to end the thirty five day partial shutdown with a three week spending deal but he wants billions of dollars for his border wall and the democrats are refusing to approve it. for three decades north macedonia and greece have forth over the name greece's neighbor would adopt and its claim to alexander the great's as its national hero now that political issues have been pretty much laid to rest the two countries are discovering that a close economic relationship could be the key to a future friendship up of those reports from skulking. she has traveled two hundred sixty kilometers from her hometown in central greece to fix her teeth over

the border in north macedonia she can no longer afford greek dentists who charge two to three times the prices here and the bus that brought her is free operated by the clinic. i'm very satisfied the surgery is amazing much better than what we have in greece they do x. rays and cat scans on one really increase they send you left and right and the infrastructure is not the same order in fact every client is greek victims of the economic crisis that has claimed a third of their living standards many come here to shop by cheaper petrol for their cars according to one study greek consumers spend half a billion dollars a year in north macedonia it's their business if this clinic alone provides work for stuff for fifty after taking a quick thinking is separating them this clinic started ten years ago with the idea that it would serve as patients from greece we started small with four people and we see more than thirty five thousand patients during that time some worry about this capital flight hundreds of greek companies have fled

a corporate tax rate of twenty nine percent in favor of north macedonia's ten percent tax and they employ north macedonians for an average of four hundred fifty dollars a month two thirds of the greek minimum wage greek companies own the largest supermarket chain here the largest network of petrol stations and sole refinery and one of the largest high street banks greece was consistently the top foreign investor in northwest since the fall of communism and even after it fell to third place during its prolonged economic crisis it still manages to sink more than half a billion dollars a year into this economy accounting for ten percent of foreign investment there are currently some four hundred greek companies here representing investments of two billion dollars this vision was impossible two decades ago when greece imposed a trade embargo on this country the economic and political war over the country's name is now over leaving only cultural issues to be settled the first.