he's going to have to go somewhere every day and sees more and more probably sheets time you see gives me everything because waves the wind i have to give something back i feel obliged to look at history. as. one way of surfers fighting against unseen pollution in the sea starting in january seventh on w. . this is data from iran's death toll rises as the country faces its most violent

unrest it is at least a twenty one people have been killed in nearly a week of nationwide protests as a country supreme leader accuses iran's enemies of meddling in its affairs also on the program. germany's new hate speech law is put to the test as twitter suspends the account of the far right number of columns on to muslim tweet. on tinseltown a list as you know it's a site time's up tolerating discrimination and abuse but look at the new compact be braced by women in hollywood. i'm for a welcome to the program. we start in iran where anti-government protests are sweeping the country at least twenty one people have been killed and hundreds arrested the country's supreme leader has blamed foreign meddling security forces struggle to contain the boldest challenge to the country's clerical leadership for

nearly a decade but after six days of demonstrations protesters showed no sign of backing into. video footage reaching deutsche yvel or 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 fun unverified. official state television says six people died this protesters stormed this police station. supreme leader ayatollah ali how many accuses enemies of iran of stirring up the unrest. bushmen. enemy is poised for an opportunity a breach to penetrate through look at the incidents in the past few days all those

who are against the islamic republic 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. changes even radical changes. they want to change pretty much everything in short they want to live differently. it's true that improving the economic situation is very important for them. but it's not only about that citizen economy it is impossible but soon the only thing also. has the protests widen iran's president rouhani has expressed sympathy for peaceful demonstrators worried about making ends meet that's unlikely to satisfy their demands. i did only a correspondent. monitoring events and joins us from our studios in the bone 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 let's put it this way people are frustrated they're angry especially about economical situation about their 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 everything act their 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 it's own president rouhani government for not boosting the economy or is it a higher perhaps of those supreme leaders. well it's much more than that actually

it started with like what people fail or one scenario is that it started in mashhad by actually organized by hardliners who wanted to criticize or you know protest against the rouhani rouhani is governments 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 opposition 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. thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the united states said that it is up to south korea to decide whether it will hold talks with north korea but it says it won't take the talk seriously unless pyongyang gives up its nuclear weapons so earlier offer talks with the north after it raised the prospect of joining next month's winter olympics in the south but. at least twenty nine people have been killed and more than twenty injured in clashes in south sudan a state official said violence broke out between rival clans competing for control of grazing land the fighting occurred in a state eighty kilometers north of the capital juba. uganda's president yoweri

museveni has signed a law removing an age cap on presidential candidates seventy three year old has already ruled for more than thirty years critics say he'll now be able to remain in power until he dies religious leaders lawmakers and human rights activists of opposed the move here in germany a member of parliament and leading figure in the far right alternative for germany party could face charges over a new year's eve tweet. dortch tweeted police about what she called barbaric gang raping hordes of muslim men opposed to carry the new german law in the club and down on line hate speech came into effect twitter quickly remove 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 began to expunge voice a leading member of the far right alternative for germany party mom 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 police regard the tweet is anti muslim prosecutors are now assessing whether to charge one story with incitement to hatred that has an inside as on those that is especially difficult in this case because the hurdle sent by the constitutional court is are very high when it comes to stating political opinions especially for career politicians. playing was on the horse and with a politician like the first step would be to lift her parliamentary immunity experts say her tweet was typical for her. daughter's 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 it 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 so how do you respond to doubly political correspondent has been telling us. well the alternative for germany is a right wing populist party and they have made it a political tactic to victimize themselves whenever 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 would be developed after the wave of scandal sparked by accusations against a film mogul harvey weinstein hundreds of hollywood stars have joined forces to fight sexual abuse in the workplace a list 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's up the time for putting up with sexual harassment is over three hundred palace the live in from the business and entertainment world starting a campaign and using their status to help those women who have none that bring their support that 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 are 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 need to hear longboard. hill is a pioneer of the movement twenty six years ago in the sensational testimony before the u.s. senate she accused to preen 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. in iceland the new year has brought with it a new law making it illegal to pay a man more than women for the same work and it's the first country in the world to make public private enterprises accountable in an attempt to close the gender pay gap. 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. or so far women have borne the cost of the gender pay gap and if the 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. this will affect employers first and foremost they're offering the jobs and now it's up to them to shoulder their responsibility. and be part of this mission with us. the that so

that would talk to close the countries gender pay gap by twenty twenty two and the other countries have made similar moves for now iceland is the global pioneer. a cruise in one of the toughest races on the planet have returned to the high seas in melbourne australia the fourth stage of the volvo open ocean race well seen boats travel more than ten thousand kilometers to hong kong team affray helping lead out of my girth but that could change as the pace leg is expected to take nearly three weeks the overall race which began in october has eleven stages won't finish until june at. hand finally to china where the frozen river frozen river was transformed into

a race course. on new year's day around two thousand runners kicked off a twenty eight table ice marathon that's right it was not for the fainthearted participants run on the icy bone chilling minus fifteen degrees celsius temperatures are professionals on imus's to possibly. you next year the main event is a reminder of our top story this hour the death toll from anti-government protests sweeping iran has risen to at least twenty one the country's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has accused foreign enemies of meddling in his country's affairs. that's it your up to date have a good then.