this is d.w. news live from berlin with one day left before u.s. sanctions hit major sectors of iran's economy thousands of the rain ians rally in the streets of tehran marking the fortieth anniversary of the u.s. embassy takeover we'll look at how the new sanctions are impacting people's lives in iran. and devastation in italy is storms and flooding kill more people rescue divers and emergency teams are still looking to save the lives of people holding on to hope.

i'm rebecca races welcome to the show tens of thousands of iranians are taking part in anti-american demonstrations in cities across the country the rallies are being held to mock the you at the takeover of the u.s. embassy in tehran forty years ago they also come as the population braces for a crippling new sanctions set to be imposed by the trumpet ministration on monday iran marks the anniversary every here but anger towards the u.s. is reported to have increased since president trump decided to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal more now on the way a rainy and preparing for the new sanctions. america. is finishing this six story apartment building there's no project lined up next he's been building homes for ten years employing one hundred fifty people when times were good now there's just fifty new contracts have dried up because no one's confident enough to invest

right now. the sanctions are putting iran's economy under even more pressure they're causing enormous uncertainty over night or money you can lose a third or a quarter of its value with that you can see how bad it is. building contractors are facing extinction imported goods will be nearly nonexistent once u.s. banking and oil sanctions take effect on monday and we import many of our building materials such as elevators which come entirely from abroad and the building sector along with many others will be done for if we can't maintain business relationships with the rest of the world anymore. he runs leadership isn't budging no new negotiations with the arch enemy the us iran's supreme leader of the grand ayatollah ali khamenei told students in tehran iran would prevail he said

while u.s. president donald trump has disgraced his country. the young people of our entire country support our efforts to be independent some might not be very religious but they oppose being dominated by foreign powers than. in the words of iran's official newspaper the americans can get lost yet there's little word on how the government can prevent rising prices currency devaluation and company insolvencies. farber's writes donna an economist who's been in and out of prison for his critical views of the government says many iranians blame their misery on their own government's mismanagement but he doesn't see sanctions stoking a popular revolt against it which many in the us may be hoping for. what you protests there are are not coordinated many occur without planning workers aren't in unions the word union alone is taboo in iran the islamic republic views unions

a subversive under threat. rice donna has no doubt that the government will use any means necessary to put down resistance from within that means the u.s. iranian duel is likely to persist. british business late is a calling on the u.k. government to have the final say on bret's it back to the people a group called business for a papal vote has signed a letter published in the sunday times it calls for a public vote on the negotiated breaks it terms of business latest warn the country faces a destructive heartbreaks it and want the public to have more say before it's finalized the u.k. government opposes allowing another referendum it argues the british people decided on the matter in twenty sixteen i'm joined now by joe mcalinden associate professor of law at the london school of economics show business leaders have called for a second vote on brick set to increase pressure on prime minister may its public

support starting to shift on the issue. well it certainly looks like it this is right on the back of a the second biggest march in britain's history seven hundred thousand people marched a few weekends ago in central london but the wii's were people from all over the world and now we have this letter from seventy business people and i think what will put pressure on the government is less what business people think because we know what they think the business community has been united on the question that they are against the u.k. leaving the e.u. since twenty sixteen but what will increase the pressure is if ordinary people voice their dissatisfaction with the future arrangements. here not to reason why has said she wouldn't allow another voyage how likely is it that we'll see a fresh referendum. well that's of course the million euro question that two challenges here the first challenges for to reason may to get a deal with the european union we're told that it's ninety five percent complete or

something like that and let's assume that there will be a deal in the next three weeks all suffer so the next challenge and arguably the much greater hurdle for the prime minister is to sell that deal to parliamentarians this party and that will be the outcome of that is uncertain because the her own government may well reject any deal she can come up with in and then people are saying we need to go the country needs to go to a referendum again to have clarity but then the question is well clarity on what is it on the rejected deal the deal that her government rejected or is it on remaining in the european union right now all options are open from remaining to a crashing out without a deal well precisely let's say that a deal is agreed upon with the government and then it is taken to the people what would the consequences for the government be eve if people rejected that deal that

was a great upon. well you see that's another very good question because the government has been beholden to the people's vote in twenty sixteen and ministers have said world even though this is not what we would this is not a situation that we campaigned for we have to campaign for break that because the people voted for it it could be a slightly similar thing here if the people vote for whatever they vote that the government would find themselves to be in hock to the people if the government agree a deal i don't think that it will go to the people's vote i think it's more likely we're more likely to have a referendum if the government rejected deal and the u.k. is faced with a stark choice of crashing out without a deal or what world or something else the bigger issue though is that time is running out setting up a referendum takes months at least twenty two weeks. so an urgent

priority would be to get some sort of extension on article fifty in order to have a referendum because it's now almost impossible to have one before the twenty ninth of march right so running out of time to american thank you very much associate professor of law at london school of economics now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump is spending the final weekend before tuesday's midterm elections campaigning for republican candidates at a rally in florida he told supporters a voice for democrats is a vote for socialism that would turn florida into venezuela he repeated calls for border security to keep immigrants out who he's depicted as dangerous. voters in new caledonia are deciding whether the french territory in the south pacific should stay part of france or become an independent nation there are fears the vote could inflame tensions between indigenous cannot people who tend to favor independence and the white population results are expected later on sunday. the

pakistan government is coming out of five for its handling of a case of a handling of the case of a christian woman who was accused of blasphemy and then acquitted by the supreme court baby has been on had been on death row since twenty ten after neighbors said she insulted islam on wednesday the court unanimously decided they wasn't enough evidence to support the claim but off the days of violent protests from radical islamists the government agreed to review the verdict they say it was it was in line with the constitution but in an interview with a pakistani human rights campaigner. whose own father was assassinated by radicals criticize the government of caving in to extremists religious thought he's in pakistan have pulled off what can only be described as a judicial judicial coup by breeding the country to a halt they have extracted an agreement from the government of pakistan with a judicial sensually handed over to this religious mob from the courts of pakistan

giving them the right to due to anybody overturned and to receive a verdict of the over all of the like and this is perhaps the most humiliating concession ever made bye bye bye bye by a nation state in the history of democracy and can only be described as a death warrant of democracy so now basically a c. a b. b. faces a shot on trial where having spent nine years in jail after having been found innocent by the highest court in the country she is going to be retried by by a court demanded by a religious model essentially. essentially demanded at gunpoint but i just want to say what what is at trial over here is not just a theater vasil bibi what is at trial is also the fate of buck a stunt as a nation state to decide whether it is a function of nation state or a theocratic moment. shanta zia there speaking to us. ten

people have been killed in floods in sicily emergency workers say the bodies of a family including three children were found in their house in the capital palermo at least another twenty people have been killed in bad weather in italy over the last week. centuries old forests like this one in the vonetta region destroyed within just a few days storm set battered the whole of italy since last sunday but the worst hit areas are in the north many of the dead were killed by falling trees. in the province of blue no winds reach two hundred ninety kilometers an hour and moves off houses. out here and looked upward and i shouted that the roof has blown away that we were stuck five days without a phone without electricity without anything and without because nobody could reach

and ceo's. residents here were cut off after a landslide damaged a major mountain road. no we're worried the road might collapse. because underneath the road we saw across the community support. we peer efforts have been hampered by the heavy rains. thousands have been left without electricity but while the rain has finally stopped here weather warnings are still in place for the islands of suddenly and sicily with villages have been inundated. the storm's damage in italy is estimated to run into the billions some are saying it will be decades before the region's recover. oliva cousin headed into the bundesliga weekend in outstanding form after two wins in the past week which saw them score eleven goals along the way but that run came

to an abrupt end on saturday as they were given a taste of their own medicine wire a surgeon hoffenheim. leverkusen fans were likely expecting another explosive performance against hoffenheim given their team's recent run of form and they looked to be right when leverkusen seemed to have matched the opener just ten minutes him but celebrations were cut short as a play was ruled offside. and leverkusen hopes were further down by rhys nelson's curling shot in the nineteenth minute the english youngster now has six league goals to his name. and this one might have been the best of the bunch. never cusins reaction was a swift one. mitchell visor split open hoffenheim stefansson with precision and cutter embellished abi was there to rifle into the far corner to equalize one one half an hour him. but hoffenheim weren't content to split points just four minutes

later in a wide open jewel in tone headed home pavel cut a sharp x. cross and the visitors were back ahead. five minutes after the break and joel intone was brought down in leverkusen xbox one chance of grief calmly stepped up and slotted home from the spot. joe intone burst past the leverkusen defense in the seventy third minute picking up his second of the match and piling on to lever cusins misery. it ended for one tough pill to swallow for leverkusen and likely the opposite end of the result they expected to be given their recent performances. so good of form ended abruptly here and the rest of the results from match day ten so far on this legal aid as it dortmund want to involve bog bought by andrew at home with fribourg lives and a burning berlin's strong start to the ses and and shell kosoff hung over. and nuremburg

drew and on friday frankfurt got a good win edged it got there are two more games to look forward to on sunday. you know watching day w. news from berlin well coming up the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's the w dot com thanks for joining me. going to. go. first tony most of them in the door as grand the moment arrives in the. container on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary on the story and the regular returns home the long d.w. don't come to tanks.