in a society that expects them to be her children this is a burden many. women in niger suffer from. a wife is only fully accepted upon motherhood. a very personal film about the suffering of childless women in the. fruitless tree starting january fourteenth on t w. this is date of leaders live from iraq as death toll rises the country faces its

most violent unrest in years at least twenty one people have been killed in nearly a week of nationwide protests the country's supreme leader accuses iran's enemies of meddling in its effect is also on the program. germany's new hate speech laws put to the test this twitter suspends the accountable member of parliament the most learned tweet. on tinseltown a list as unites to say time's up tolerating discrimination on the views a look at the new campaign being embraced by women and called. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. we started iran where anti-government protests sweeping the country at least twenty one people have been killed and hundreds arrested the country's supreme leader has blamed foreign maddening security forces struggle to contain the boldest challenge to iran's clerical

leadership for nearly a decade but after six days of demonstrations protesters showed no sign of backing down. video footage reaching dortch avella through social media shows the extent of the unrest spreading across iran. the violence which has rocked the country for nearly a week appears if anything to be escalating. these pictures from the central province of is for our unverified. official state television says six people died in this protest has stormed this police station. supreme leader ayatollah ali how many accuses enemies of iran of stirring up the unrest. bushmen montazeri iqbal the anime is poised for an opportunity a breach to penetrate through public of iran those with cash and politics weapons

and intelligence operators you can join hands to create trouble that opposition leaders say the demonstrators are demanding far reaching reforms or your mom has changes even radical changes they want to change pretty much everything in short they want to live differently. there it's true that improving the economic situation is very important for them. but it's not only about that city it's really going to me it is impossible. as the protests widen iran's president has run rouhani has expressed sympathy for peaceful demonstrators worried about making ends meet that's unlikely to satisfy their demands. and i did only a correspondent has been monitoring events and joins us from our studios in the

welcome now this seems to be a process without any particular leadership or coordination so there do seem to be lots of different demands. yes indeed there is no political leadership as it was for instance in two thousand and nine but there is a lot of people people are frustrated let's see it let's put it this way people are frustrated they're angry especially about economical situation about the rise of unemployment about the rising food prices about corruption and this is people who have not had a platform in the last decade so have they cannot make their voices be heard they have no media who are every fact they're their wishes and they're angry they're frustrated and now taking to the streets and asking for something to change for something to happen here and where is the anger focused is all president rouhani government for not boosting the economy or is it time to perhaps of a supreme leader's. well it's much more than that actually it started with like what people favor or one scenario is that it started in mashhad by actually

organized by hardliners who wanted to criticize our you know protest against the rouhani rouhani is government and then it's took over and people who are frustrated people who are you know. complaining about social and political grievances coming taking over onto the streets but you know it's very complex when you talk about iranian politics it's always we have the rouhani government and we have hardliners and it is kind of many people now saying that this is not like also the reformists and president rouhani is not a real position so to say because they are also part of the system and he is also representing the system but what we have seen and what we have noticed this time is there have been a lot of slogans against ayatollah khomeini directly against the supreme leader people chanting. death to the dictator referring to him which hasn't been in

this has been there before people really you know going out in this really also more violent form and having declared the monster against the whole system and president rouhani was elected on a promise of change on improved and increased civil rights why has that progress been so slow. the thing is though first of all a president in the islamic republic of iran even willing or even wanting to change something has only very limited power already is very limited in or in what he can actually do or bring about and sort of changes so but people were hoping for after the election last year when they reelected president has an iranian they were hoping that with the lifting of the sanctions the economic situation would get better and rouhani himself he made a lot of promises and people did not or do not see them being fulfilled of being

being addressed and actually also what is criticized a lot is that president rouhani is also focusing a lot on foreign policies financially and militarily and people once you know they domestic issues to be to be addressed and actual and he in just two some weeks ago and then the middle of december he presented his budget draft to the parliament in which increased they did budgets off the revolutionary guard corpse over forty percent and this is also one point that made people really becoming angry and this is also people who actually have voted for ronnie himself so we have to see that there has been a hash tag on twitter recently with two translated in english will be hash tag regret where people actually they regret to have voted for president rouhani because they don't see him taking any action or changing actually anything and

actually and losing hope in this system to be reformable. zaba thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world south korean president moon jay in has offered to hold talks with north korea about cooperating on next month's winter olympics in the south but he stressed that north korea's nuclear issues must be part of any dialogue and north korean leader kim jong un had raised the prospect of joining the olympics in his new year's speech. uganda's president yoweri museveni signed a law removing an age cap on presidential candidates seventy three year old has already ruled for more than thirty years critics say you'll not be able to remain in power until he dies religious leaders lawmakers are human rights activists oppose the move. police to nine people have died more than a dozen wounded after rival gangs clashed at a jail in brazil officials say violence broke out when inmates from one wing

invaded another about one hundred prisoners managed to escape during the fighting only a few dozen have been recaptured. hundreds of protesters have gathered in ukraine's capital kiev to demand an investigation into the death of a prominent lawyer. knows dr scott was found dead on new year's day he had faced threats for helping to convict a well connected man in a case that seems it was seen as a test of the ukrainian justice system. and here in germany a member of parliament leading figure in the far right alternative for germany party could face charges over a new year's eve tweet that six one stalk tweeted police about what she called barbaric gang raping hordes of muslim men opposed to a new german law aimed at clubbing down on online hate speech came into effect twitter quickly removed the tweet and suspended her account. new year's eve celebrations passed without serious incidents this year but two years ago hundreds

of women reported being sexually attacked many of the perpetrators were migrants since then police in cologne have pushed the slogan respect they use social media to spread the word in many languages including arabic bad takes one choice a leading member of the far right alternative for germany party mark the action in a tweet and criticize the police do you think it is to appease the barbaric gang raping hordes of muslim men twitter deleted the entry immediately cologne holies regard the tweet is anti muslim prosecutors are now assessing whether to charge one story with incitement to hatred that is an inside is on those that is especially difficult in this case because the hurdles sent by the constitutional court are very high when it comes to stating political opinions especially for career politicians. was on the whole said with a politician like the first step would be to lift her parliamentary immunity

experts say her tweet was typical for her. door he regularly attempts to incite racial hatred of migrants muslims and so called other is that something germany experienced with anti semitic slogans in the weimar republic in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it can be dangerous to the republic if it is not stopped to be fairly in danger because. twitter suspended the f.t. politicians account for several hours acting under authority of the new law that requires social media firms to promptly delete suspected criminal hate speech. a day doubly political correspondent outlined the after his response to those accusations. well the alternative for germany is a right wing populist party and they have made it a political tactic to victimize themselves whenever they they use a provocative statement and then being criticized for it but they call it of course

censorship something they always do but this time i think they certainly do have a point because criticism does not only come from the far right it also comes from civil rights groups who say that this net folk network and forstmann blore is introducing censorship through backdoor they say that as the state wants to make the providers deputies for pro for legal prosecution and imposes large fines on them this could mean that these providers could eliminate any opinion which they think could be provocative or disputable just to avoid the fines and this in the end could mean that. the mainstream opinions could find it much harder to be heard or seen on social media we would read about now as we go into the new year d.w. will use this week to bring you a preview of what to expect from top global players in twenty eighteen today we

look at germany's chancellor angela merkel topping our agenda forming a new government it's been more than one hundred days since september selection later this week conservatives are due to begin exploratory talks with the center left social democrats but even if those talks are successful it could still take months before a government is in place. each day a new record is broken here in berlin never before has it taken so long falling in election to build a new government. and in the middle of it all chancellor. or at the moment interim chancellor. if decisions are being made in parliament she has to search for allies so far she has not been able to find a fixed coalition partner it looks like no one wants to form a coalition with the chancellor on the other hand doesn't think a minority government is the right thing for germany in other words she has to woo

the social democrats and build another grand coalition but that's still a lot of work to do. this is becoming a problem on the international political stage why french president might call his keogh go it's actually best to wait it out that's not good for her and not good for europe europe cannot work without a strong germany and a strong german french alliance that is why berlin carries a huge responsibility to build a stable government. twenty eighteen will be an important year for the e.u. reforms must be made and burden is expected to make suggestions soon. is hardly any doubt. will remain here in the chancellor rhee and govern germany the question is just when will she be elected at the moment to act internationally like her neighbor here in the swiss embassy people are used to remaining neutral but

from the german chancellor the world expects something else. a weak chancellor at the head of europe's biggest economy at least america is able to steer the course of her own party. in a fourth term she wants to lead another grand coalition. there was unanimity from everyone that we now have to go into exploratory talks with the s.p.d. with the goal of building a stable government. within her conservative party people are saying that she will last another four years at the most no one discusses this openly but many in the c.d.u. are thinking about the time after. potential success as now i have to position themselves at the same time to plan how she can hand over power little by little without losing it too fast. so what's the next step in germany there are

a lot of on on such questions. was the first question. and have a great start in the new year. whether it turns out to be good or bad twenty eighteen will certainly not be boring. we all have days like that i'm sorry what was it was a question just happens to the best of us she's got a lot of mind now u.s. president trump has an a as a tax reform that would be a win for companies but not all the companies are fans of this no at first it was seen as a quite a win for the chump administration but some corporations are saying it's a nasty surprises in store and i think that those companies would be entering the new year with a sense of glee at least because on paper the tax reform hands them a tax rate of twenty one percent down from the previous thirty five percent but in the short term not all companies are coming out with this some are going to have to pay a steeper tax bill first including germany company heidelberg cement american investment

bank goldman sachs and the british commodity group b.p. . the deepwater horizon oil spill in the gulf of mexico cost b.p. a total of almost sixty two billion dollars in the balance sheet all the costs are rising out of the twenty ten disaster can be used to offset future tax liabilities in the financial world these costs are described as tax deferred assets the recent tax reform significantly reduces the value of these tax deferred assets costing b.p. a lot of money this year u.s. investment bank goldman sachs said the tax reform will cut its twenty seventeen profit by about five billion dollars while other companies including german company heidelberg cement are also affected negatively by the changes to the u.s. tax code once these charges are booked however companies have a lot to look forward to in the long run but all profit from paying less corporate taxes in the us. china over to the united states is the world's largest

car market almost a decade ago and now chinese authorities are also encouraging people to cycle to fight pollution and congestion bike sharing has taken off in beijing much like in other cities around the world but not everyone is happy about that. this scrap heap is the fate of the many millions of bikes in beijing there's about one rental bike for every ten people in the chinese capital the two wheelers are one of the cheapest means of transportation in beijing they can be rented for as little as seven u.s. cents for half an hour less than a subway take it. from there it's convenient but sometimes there are too many bikes they block the roads. i feel people don't take care of the shared bikes because they're not their personal property otherwise they'll protect them very well wouldn't they. the rising number of bikes in beijing has brought

more chaos to the streets that's why some are calling for better regulation of the bike sharing industry the company themselves together with the government they should be able to do a better analysis but her allocation off them better operation of them the better transfer all too not making too much of them on the street until then a bike's fate still appears to be the scrap heap. well china is cracking down on polluting cars a state run news agency shin cost says beijing has banned the making of more than five hundred fifty different models for using too much fuel and not complying with environmental regulations the banned vehicles including calls produced as joint ventures by western carmakers and audi model for folks fogg on that list is also in the savings luxury car diner there and a chevrolet model from general motors is the first time beijing has published

a list of banned vehicles. all twenty seventeen turned out to be the safest year for civil aviation on record with two industry studies confirming there was not a single major airline crash last year civilian passenger and cargo aircraft accidents did however claimed forty four lives in twenty seven thousand far fewer than the year before statistically air travel has become the safest means of transport even as world wide traffic grows by leaps and bounds. in iceland the new year has brought with it a new law making it illegal to pay men more than women for the same work and is the first country in the world to make both public and private enterprises accountable to the rules in a bid to close the gender pay gap once of parole. until now women in iceland have earned an average nineteen percent less than their male colleagues but those days are over equal pay for equal work has just become

a must irrespective of gender ethnicity sexuality or nationality the new law will cover over one hundred fifty thousand workers. of course so far women have borne the cost of the gender pay gap and if that cost is too high and to reach our goal we're all going to have to work hard now we have the perfect chance to do so. the new law affects one thousand two hundred companies in iceland which employ at least twenty five workers who now have to publish their wage scales there are courses to help them implement the new rules on completion companies get a certificate which has to be renewed every three years. from memphis doctors this will affect employers first and foremost they're offering the jobs and now it's up to them to shoulder their responsibilities. and be part of this mission with us pack up the that are that good to talk to close the country's gender pay gap by twenty twenty two and the other countries have made similar moves for now iceland

is the global pioneer. or from pioneer in iceland to hollywood now where a new campaign is underway to drive out the abuse of women at work filled helen thank you so much for yes that this of course after the way for scandal sparked by accusations against a half the film argo harvey weinstein hundreds of hollywood stars of joined forces to fight sexual abuse in the workplace and in the celebrities are backing a multi-million dollar legal fund to fight sexual harassment and the campaign is aimed at people in low wage industries who are often most vulnerable to exploitation. time is up the time for putting up with sexual harassment is over three hundred powerful women from the business and entertainment world are starting a campaign and using their status to help those women who have none they're bringing their support but ordinary workers to take their tormentors to court the launch has already raised thirty million dollars and that figure is sure to rise

actresses such as reese witherspoon and eva longoria launched their appeal in the new york times and in an open letter there are also demanding tough penalties for companies that tolerate all downplay harassment alongside top actresses a well known producers and lawyers together they are fighting against sexual harassment and shocking statistics like these one in three women between the ages of eighteen and thirty four has been sexually molested in the workplace and in low paid jobs sexual harassment is even more likely times ups first action came two weeks ago when they brought lawyer anita hill on board. hill is a pioneer of the movement twenty six years ago in the sensational testimony before the u.s. senate she accused supremes court justice nominee clarence thomas of sexual harassment after that she began raising money for victims. time's up comes hard on the heels

of the me two campaign but goes further while me to brought the problem to light time's up is campaigning for firm action against sexual harassment and to raise awareness about the issue actresses are being encouraged to wear black at the golden globes awards ceremony this weekend. let's get more on this from. chinmoy in washington welcome colleen what sort of reaction has this campaign draw on. hello fairly well as of yet this campaign doesn't dominate the news cycle here in the united states and the initiative has been loaned in the new york times and in the spanish language newspaper la opinion on the reactions we can see so far mainly positive and mainly coming from women of course hollywood movie stars like i must hold gori our emma watson expressed their support but they are also among the women who signed this

letter but also some famous man like for example justin timberlake reacted to that he wrote today and on twitter no more accepting sexual harassment and inequality at work as normal this is not normal so let's reactions yet from police stations but for example movements like the women's march have expressed their support for this initiative to ok so we heard in the voice of the thirteen million dollars race so far that explain to us how these hollywood millionaires ponder how low paid female work is an industry. culture. well financial help is one of the aspects a address you just mentioned because reporting sexual harassment concussive victims a lot of money especially for attorneys fees and this is a money that workers in blue collar workplaces often don't have so one of this initiative is a legal defense fund of thirty million dollars just mentioned to help less

privileged women working at restaurants and this money would come in the form of donations for example justin timberlake or you donate some money into this fund. meant for nurses or a woman who work in farms to protect themselves and to be able to report their sexual harassment case or cases and the times i've been issued have also includes a legislation to penalize companies that tolerate sexual harassment and even have tried to use an official nondisclosure agreements to silence victims and it's a member of this campaign is also to start an initiative at the. entertainment organization and companies to reach gender parity in their leadership in order to make more women part of a jury clearly the two more in washington thank you. and . they went to break in ten days and champions by. the restart with.

the same including new. arrived in the gulf state for several days of intense fitness and tactical training. in the game of twenty eighty. not just top stories at the death toll from anti-government protests sweeping iran has risen to at least twenty one countries supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has accused foreign enemies of meddling in his country. could face criminal charges over muslim tweet in. germany. tougher laws on online hate speech. police in the. publishing the new year in arabic the move to posting unsuspected her account. updates from all of the top of the hour.

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