and there challengers. this shift in sherman percentage. platform. this is d.w. news live for good and one day left before u.s. sanctions hit major sector of or sectors of iran's economy thousands of iranians 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 there also coming up. the husband of andi a baby has pleaded for international help to escape the angry mobs that want want

to see his family did this after pakistan's supreme court unanimously acquitted baby of blasphemy charges political correspondent close to the case. and devastation in italy as storms and flooding killed more people rescue divers an emergency teams are still looking to save the lives of people holding on for part. time 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 mark the takeover of the u.s. embassy in tehran thirty nine years ago they also come as the population braces for crippling new u.s. sanctions set to come in force on monday iran celebrates the anniversary every year

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 how iranians are 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. sanctions are putting iran's economy under even more pressure they're causing enormous uncertain dini over night or money you can lose a third or a quarter of its value with that you can see how bad it is bad. building contractors are facing extinction imported goods will be nearly nonexistent once u.s. banking and oil sanctions take effect on monday they said i'm no president that 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 it's about here and i thought when. 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 may not be very religious but they oppose being dominated by foreign powers. 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. for boars rights donna and 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 protest there are are not coordinated many occur without plumbing workers aren't in unions the word union alone is taboo in iran the islamic republic views unions a subversive and a threat. she. writes 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 bricks 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 negotiated breaks it terms of business late as warned that the

country faces a destructive heartbreaks it and want the public to have more say before brit's its finalized the u.k. government opposes allowing another referendum on hearing the british people decided on the matter already back in twenty sixteen. i'm joined now by joe mcalinden associate professor of law at the london school of economics joe business leaders have called for a second vote on brics that to increase pressure on prime minister may is 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 views 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 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. again and 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 made 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 summer so the next challenge and arguably the much greater hurdle for the prime minister is to sell that deal to her parliamentarians this and her party and that will be the outcome of that is uncertain because the her 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 the remaining in the european union right now all options are open from remaining to crashing out without a deal right so running out of time germany can 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 vote for democrats is a vote for socialism that would turn florida into venezuela he repeated calls for border security to keep migrants out who he is depicted as dangerous. the no vote is in the lead as people in new caledonia hit the polls to decide

whether to become an independent nation the french territory in the south pacific looks set to remain part of france more than fifty percent of the votes counted have come back against independence. a group of thousands of central american migrants heading for the u.s. has begun splintering off after mexican officials broke a promise to supply buses the group of about four thousand people is traveling through an area locals call the route of death the governor of veracruz has offered safe passage to mexico city on buses but officials later with through that offer. the husband of a pakistani christian woman acquitted after being condemned to death for blasphemy has appealed to several several countries for asylum the case of the of bibi has outraged christians and human rights groups worldwide and is causing division within pakistan her husband a sheikh has asked the u.k. the u.s. and canada to take him and his family in he says he fears for their lives after

radicals took to the streets to call for the original sentence of hanging to be carried out. now for more on this story i'm joined by sharmell shams from asia what's the latest information you have on ozzie of babies well being is her life under threat in pakistan as her husband claims. well we just received an order clip from a person very close to us the abuse family and he told us that. family bibi's life is under immense threat and he also pleaded that the media should do the western media should do something about to propagate the matter that the family should be taken out of the country life is under threat she was acquitted by the supreme court on wednesday but we saw what islam is did in the following three days and forced the government to surrender now it's very difficult for for bibi to to leave the country. if the you know he

pleaded to u.s. president trump and other world leaders to help them so i think if they don't really help these people their life would be in big danger. you mentioned that they have applied for asylum or us is has been has applied for asylum how likely is it that i'll receive asylum from one of these countries well a number of countries have already offered asylum due to b.p. so the main question is that what would the pakistani government do a review petition against has been filed and the government agreed to islamists that they would not block the review so it depends on one aim has not been put on the exit control list as yet supra mr khan is currently in china he'll be back on tuesday so it is yet to be seen what the government would do about it would deport the name on the e.c.l. the exit control list the no fly list or not so it all depends on the pakistani

government that how are they going to deal with the issue. well as we've been talking about baby was unanimously acquitted by the supreme court earlier this week after demands by hard line islamists there's going to be an appeals that do critics have a point that the pakistani government is caving in to these extremists well it is not the first time the pakistani government the state has made such back to where the slum is today have been doing it for a long time. the longest have discreet and also the pakistan's powerful military. backs these have used these islamist over the years they have grown in numbers in the strength so it is very difficult to rein in these islamists and they are actually more powerful than the state and they have proven yet again that there is strength is more than the state in the government's hands and government kind of surrender to to these these groups in

a sort of dealing with them with an iron hand and critics say it's been shameful objects that are into shadows shams from data we use asia desk thank you. thank you for having me on the show a dozen people have been killed in floods in sicily as storms continue to bring destruction to italy officials say at least twenty nine people have suffered suffered weather related deaths this week and weather forecasters say more stormy weather is on the way. centuries old forests like this one and the vonetta region destroyed within just a few days storm set battered the whole of eataly 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 it because nobody could regency. residents here were cut off after a landslide damaged a major mountain road. no where worried the road might collapse. because underneath the road we saw a crowd to get them in to support. the pair efforts have been hampered by the heavy rains. thousands have been left without electricity but well the rain has finally stopped here whether warnings still in place for the islands of said cicely 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. but in tennis novak djokovic has ended roger federer's hopes of one hundred career title at the paris monsters this week the serbian prevailed in the tight semifinal djokovic took the first set after a nail biting tiebreaker when federal went along but the mattress soon level one fifth federer hit back in the second set with some stunning shots the swiss great was denied however joke of each winning the third set to power into sunday's final . well thousands of people have gathered in southern taiwan for the burning of a ceremonial boat as part of a taoist ritual to ward off disease and bad luck well the ninety volunteers from the stateside town of don't gang spent three months building the intricately decorated bush according to folklore about belongs to one a divine emissary who has the power to cleanse people of evil spirits and disease

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