through history starting january fourteenth on d. w. . this is news live from berlin ten more people are killed in protests in iran bringing the total number of dead to twelve as the demonstrations escalate iranian state television says some protesters have tried to seize police stations and military bases but have they've been repelled by security forces also coming up. north korea's leader kim jong un tells the united states that the nuclear launch

button is on his desk but to south korea he offers an all of french. and what is it about new year's day that makes people want to jump into really cold water we'll take a look at that and some of the other things people get up to around the world on the first of january. it's been a long time coming but today america's most populous state california legalized cannabis for recreational use will this be a new high or new low opinions could not be more divided. and it's good to have last night the country experienced its worst night of violence since the protests started last thursday at least thirteen people have now lost their lives. this footage has been provided by demonstrators people have been

on the streets in various parts of iran's since thursday protesting conditions in the country and this is footage provided by iranian state t.v. which claims that protesters are violent and that some have damaged a.t.m.'s buildings and other property and also claim that some protesters tried to take over police stations and military bases on monday iranian state t.v. showed president hassan rouhani meeting with members of parliament to discuss the situation rowhani claim that protests are happening because iran's enemies are angry due to the country's accomplishments and are therefore provoking protestors state t.v. provided interviews with iranians who don't agree with the demonstrations because one in these protests the chakotay of a message of unity that they should be held peacefully not to finally that's violates our well being and safety don't reach it initially thought there are so many people who intend to exploit the situation and take advantage of the violence

they're destroying our society. a pro-government rally took place in the northern city of rushed where protesters voiced their support for the government. they've asked for a peaceful solution to the country's problems. so far though anti-government protests continue the fear now is that the government might crack down hard on the protesters. for more we're joined by ali noorani he's a journalist with the a.f.p. news agency in toronto thanks for speaking with us another death in iran iranian police say one of their own officers has been killed could we now see the start of a general crackdown on protesters. this could be this could be going down toward a crack down because sunday night was the most violent day of the protest of these five days of protest we have had now to

a protest there isn't one police man dead in as a forward intentional iran that was cast as that one protester used hunting rifle started shooting at police forces injuring three and killing one and we're also in for a g.m. protest up in got a rally popping up across the country's official president rouhani head of the jewish judiciary all of them have that iran will not tolerate this and they said they will be spies to be confronted also intelligence. ministry as that we have and they fired the protesters and the instigators and we will deal with them soon so this is going to or the crack down i think and it will and soon ok you mention that the violence comes despite president rouhani is message that writers and lawbreakers will be dealt with but he also blames foreign enemies for provoking these demonstrations who does he mean. they mean

particularly they have been referring to saudi arabia iran as regional rival and his his deputy is and himself have mentioned saudi arabia directly owning indirectly that they say they are not happy with iran's progress and that's why they want to hamper iraq's progress and to to look make iran look we or especially in terms of economy ok and these protests are the largest since two thousand and nine at that time there was a clear leadership and there were demands but it's different this time around what happened this time around. yes exactly this time there is no leadership there is there is there is not even consensus as to who these people are and it's it's a real mix of different groups with different. perhaps cool but

that doesn't seem to be going. to continue for a long time this time this is much smaller compared to two thousand and nine and although there have been deaths and doubt in shootings or. government buildings torched or a tag police cars have been a hog. tear gas water cannon used against them but this is a much smaller down two thousand and nine and it doesn't look to be going as a strongly as that was ok so much smaller than two thousand and nine but this time we've been seeing and hearing chants from protesters against not only the government but the regime and the supreme later so could that potentially be a bigger threat this time even though they're from all or. yes this time i think. the social media is playing a much important role and it is exciting some opposition groups especially some of

the opposition channel on the messaging app telegram are in tightening these crowds and that is why it's going viral and it had spread across the country with a random pattern and that's why maybe they are more direct but maybe it will answer ali noorani in tehran thank you you thank. now to some of the other stories making news around the world israeli authorities have filed assault charges against a palestinian teenager who was arrested after a video of her attacking an israeli soldier viral sixteen year old i had to mimi has been in custody since the incident in mid december her mother and cousin also face charges. eight people have died after a speed boat capsized off india's part of borneo island fifty one people were on

board the vessel when it overturned and sank police are investigating the cause of the accident which was not immediately clear. people in the indian capital delhi woke up to dense fog this new year's day it's said to be the biggest this season commuter communities rather were left stranded after a flight operations from the city's international airport were suspended delis air pollution levels are many times the global safe limits north korean leader kim jong un says his country's nuclear program is now fully developed and that pyongyang will soon begin mass producing nuclear warheads and missiles the comments came in his annual new year's address but kim struck a more conciliatory tone toward south korea saying he was open to talks on sending a delegation to this year's winter olympics and the country. was to north korea's

possibly does kim il sung and kim jong il a gesture of reverence repeated on every holiday in the capital pyongyang those who turn out can also pay homage to that current president kim jong moon during his new year's address. his speech included a range of threats against the u.s. but also unexpectedly an offer of dialogue with neighboring south korea. view the winter olympics to be held in south korea will be a good occasion for the country and we sincerely hope the day will be a success we're prepared to take various steps including sending a delegation officials from the two koreas may meet to discuss the possibility. kim said that now was a good time to demonstrate the status of the korean people in seoul the government responded positively so other south korea's presidential office has always stated our willingness to talk with north korea anytime and anywhere if that would help

restore into korean relations and lead to peace on the korean peninsula. but that is still a distant goal north korea's leader peppered his speech with threats against the u.s. state t.v. superimposed pictures over parts of his speech kim said the united states will never be able to start war against me or our country. in. the entire u.s. is within range of our nuclear weapons and a nuclear button is always on my desk. and. north korea's ballistic missile tests have been a source of concern for the u.s. and the rest of the international community. about the prospects of north korea joining in the upcoming winter olympics does offer some hope to people on both sides of the korean peninsula. let's go now to aid in foster carter he's an

honorary senior research fellow in modern korea at leeds university he joins us now from eggs that are aden happy new year to you but the question now is it a new him john owen in his speech it sounded like a stick for donald trump but a carrot for south korea what he make of these statements yes indeed i'm kind of wondering what took him so all that needless to say this is not you know an outbreak of peace for its own sake or a a change of heart by kim jong un and he made very clear as you pointed out that the so the u.s. is still very it is very much the stick but of course it's very helpful to north korea to divide to try to divide the u.s. for its south korea ally his late father kim jong il was very good at that during the sunshine era when south korea wanted to make nice for the north sadly on condition the issue of bracketing off the nuclear issue which began to mentally at

the end of that period overseas but washington even under different props will reasonable governments will but it will governments weren't too happy about that so i'm kind of wondering why for the last six months or a south korea has again had a left of center government that is very keen to revive the sunshine policy kim jong un has has ignored them until now complete complete change of tone from him very interesting to see what happens next a complete change from him towards his neighbor but it seems that twenty seventeen on the way that he's been speaking about donald trump has not changed are there any indications that this could change in twenty eighteen. well i'm even the little optimistic on that score which maybe just because i'm a hopeless a good liberal come here on the ferry in fact he said not for the fest time in this new us address the the the great triumph the north korea of the last year just finished was that the state nuclear force was completed if he means that it could

mean one hopes it means that there won't be such a great volume of tests be they nuclear over the state missile history so in twenty seventeen such a crisis and in that sense i mean it puts the ball in a sense very much in america's court as to what to do but is just possible look inside the tensions i think may ease a little in the new year oh maybe i'm just too full of the christmas spirit to have him also made some reference to domestic matters like the economy briefly if you can how is this country coping with the international sanctions that were further tightened in december. you would think on the surface it was coping quite well you're quite right to point out it was and they actually you know they've been we've picked out media comment of course has picked out the stuff about south korea about america but there was a lot of boilerplate about the economy and you know i'm actually coming up to fifty years as a north korea around the list riches and a triumphal sort of stock you know i could have had another life but the time he uses about self-reliant development and that's

a quality stiegel i mean could be his father could have been his grandfather north korea's economy will never thrive this way but that's sad i mean he's managing produce missiles which would up so somehow he's surviving sanctions aiden foster carter thank you very much thank you. you're watching the news still to come. you know a lot of people a lot of different demographics in the long run. today california legalized recreational cannabis will it be a new high or a new low in africa to end drug abuse. could venezuela be in for a new economical opens here to tell us more about that it could well be falling oil prices political corruption a decimated venezuela's a colony the record of shortages of food and medicine inflation set to hit two thousand three hundred percent this year the president throwing

a bone to the working poor hiking the minimum wage but that won't help much as the local currency the boat was worth next to nothing. basile president nicolas maduro made the announcement on new year's eve on the issue is i'm announcing an increase of forty percent of the national minimum wage and of all salary scales nationwide of teachers military police doctors public workers a lot of political. but still only brings the full time minimum wage to just under eight hundred thousand baht of r.'s a month or the princely sum of seven dollars on the black market that would only pay for about two kilos of pork a venezuelan stable when it's available the wage hike comes after the government failed to deliver on a promise of lowering port prices for traditional christmas meals. blamed portugal for failing to deliver pork imports. last week hundreds of people took to the

streets in the poorer parts of the capital caracas to protest the food shortage millions of venezuelans are unable to afford three meals a day. i don't think yet that name where hungry now the people are hungry there is a famine the government says the local food supply committee should hand out food every fifteen days but it doesn't arrive you say you know yeah but you don't want the meat and economists say the wage increase will only fuel the rampant hyperinflation opposition politician same with duros refusal to overhaul venezuela's failed socialist economic model and stop excessive money printing will create more misery in the year ahead. the gulf has long prided itself on its tax free cradle to grave welfare system but it can't afford it any all low oil prices have ballooned budget deficits and twenty eighteen as us said in the regions first value added tax in the u.a.e. and in saudi arabia

a big change for two super rich countries where the mole is king but the saudis are creating even more new year old mode. wrists with a midnight rise in petrol prices. one last fill up before gas prices go up now even saudi drivers are concerned about prices gasoline is rising in cost from twenty cents a liter to forty five cents most drivers aren't happy. with the increase will affect people whose lives depend on using a car most of the time i work in a medical equipment company and on a normal day i drive between three hundred and four hundred kilometers so it will affect me strongly when people support which not you consume the person or kid people ignored we do except for the news but is just too cheap to cheaper than the other can receive. low oil prices mean saudi arabia is scrambling for more income the price of a barrel stabilized last year around sixty dollars yet the international monetary

fund calculates that saudi arabia needs an oil price of at least seventy dollars a barrel to balance its budget. higher prices for fuel are a clear sign that the government is serious another sign the government also has introduced a sales tax for the first time in the history of the country a five percent value added tax is now charge for food and drink textiles and in the real estate and hospitality sectors. saudis have grown used to not paying taxes for anything though including income tax so the authorities are implementing them gradually to ease the pain. from today social media companies in germany will have twenty four hours to take down illegal material if they fail to remove hate speech or fake news for example they could face a fine of up to fifty million euros a post critics fear the likes of facebook and twitter could overcompensate into late controversial legal posts to avoid they have to finds facebook has hired

hundreds of new people in germany to comply with a controversial law. britain may impose new taxes on tech giants like google or facebook unless they do more to combat online extremism the security minister wants them to take down material aimed at radicalizing people and was accusing the companies of putting profit above public safety he argues that the government is forced to spend vast sums on the radicalization programs and surveillance. time to get away from it all and a popular way for many europeans and germans to spend part of their holidays. not just consumed by the idea of topping up ten in far flung corners of the world the far north of the continent is attracting more tourists than ever and it's mostly thanks to its spectacular natural phenomena. this is the spectacular result of electrically charged particles colliding with atoms in the upper atmosphere the northern lights visible only in the night time skies above

the arctic circle this couple from germany spared no expense to come here to the extreme north of norway. for me it's more an adventure here and it's something special when we told our friends and family that we go to try. for four week and they were they become very jealous with the sun barely climbing above the horizon in the deep midwinter days are largely closed to darkness so the norwegians of come up with some rather special attractions for tourists the hotel brought out of ice for example king crab safaris and close encounters with killer whales in recent years no one has tourism sector has gone from also ran to leading light. we have the highest growth percentage wise twenty eight percent and this makes me very happy and visitors to this secluded but increasingly popular corner of the world are also getting

a buzz especially from those awesome night skies. now here's a story that could also mean big business or maybe even a. big business ben california has become the largest u.s. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana customers lined up to be the first to take advantage of the change in the law which now allows a adults twenty one and older to buy possess and grow the drug until now it had only been available for medical purposes voters approved the change in a referendum in two thousand and sixteen the broad legalisation of cannabis is predicted to generate around a billion dollars in tax revenue. to discuss this step in california joe schrank joins me from los angeles he's the founder and director of high sobriety a rehab clinic that helps heroin addicts overcome their habits by using cannabis mr shank it's good to see you how do you feel about this development considering the work that you do and the current opioid crisis in the united states well you know

this is actually helped with cannabis available all the research is clear of this there's twenty five percent of your overdose deaths in states that have this kind of this is. there's no sense in criminalizing drug use we're more than supportive of the recreational decriminalization and legalization of candidates and we're actually going to the revenue the tax revenue will help people have. ok in terms of pot being potentially helpful can you explain harm reduction to us a little bit. sure are made auction low powered auction is all around us right whether it's a bike helmet whether it's a seat belt or an airbag in a car condom we're constantly looking to reduce harm in our lives there is no lethal dose of cannabis unlike alcohol which kills eighty eight thousand americans a year there are no americans who die as

a result of their use of cannabis so are our hope and part of our mission and eyes right is for people to use a safer for intoxication rather than just shooting mace just say no there's no drug use at all it just isn't realistic and so the reason that we advocate the use of cannabis is because of a lack of harm the truth is most people are safe using it if they are fully formed dulcimer in a controlled environment there's very little that can go wrong with the use of cannabis that's not true of any other form of intoxication whether it's alcohol drugs cocaine anything else so we're looking to limit the regis harm other drugs but not offering people an alternative it's wrong it's not realistic and it doesn't work ok and california is now not the first state in the us to enact this kind of legislation do you see a trend happening here. absolutely i mean states are falling like dominoes because

the predicted drop anarky is not true colorado has reaped huge medicine if they were the first state to legalize recreational use of cannabis california is now the largest market move world for illegal cannabis use and in america in the land of the free it's government overreach for the government to say you can't use this one of intoxication we will sanction the use of alcohol which is deadly and lethal but not cannabis so it doesn't make logical sense in any way and other states will absolutely follow suit when you see the benefits that california and other states do you know washington colorado. oregon none of them have had the negative outcomes that people predicted they've all had very positive outcomes joe schrank founder and director of high sobriety thank you for your insights. thank you very much happy new year. much of the world has spent today recovering from last night's

parting welcoming in the new year but not everyone is nursing a sore head those with get up and go just well got up and went to all sorts of healthy activities let's take a look. believe it or not this was london on new year's day with all the cheerleaders and marching bands it could just as well have been new york in fact many of the ten thousand participants were visiting from the united states. across the north sea in the level and it was just as chilly but that didn't put people off their annual new year dip the water was warmer than last year they said unlike these young women they all believe a cold that keeps you healthy. there was more aquatic fun in rome as four men dived off the cavour bridge into the river tiber it's a tradition that's been going for seventy years now. this is a tough thing to do if you make the smallest mistake you can hurt yourself and we

don't want to hurt ourselves we want to go home and have a plate of spaghetti here. in berlin people were no less keen to get some exercise after the excesses of the night before nothing too stressful just a gentle six kilometers up and down the on today in linden boulevard. but if you find all this activity too exhausting for new year's day vienna had the ideal antidote the annual concert given by the vienna philharmonic and the conductor riccardo muti. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. it's also reported. police stations and military bases the demonstrations began on thursday and have since spread to several cities across the country.

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