relevant of the. visit is g.w. news live from berlin the islamic republic of iran turns forty thousands of people are marking that anniversary in the streets but many have little to celebrate four decades after the milosevic came to power we ask what impact u.s. sanctions are have. also coming up at a major security conference here in germany leaders are going to be asking who will

pick up the pieces of political correspondent joins me live in studio to discuss our competition and could mean the world will face a more hostile future. and fewer than one third of researchers in science related fields worldwide female the international day of women in science we ask our gender stereotypes still getting in the ranks. plus as berlinski international film festival enters its second week let's take a look at an espionage thriller starring jan kruger some scenes were shot to secret in iran but the film's israeli director insists the film is not political to have a correspondent with all the action from the bread cause. i'm calm aspen balcombe to the program. iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution and of thousands of people have gathered in the capital

tehran for a rally led by president hassan rouhani he told the crowd that iran is determined to expand its military power and ballistic missile program and he won't ask anyone for permission to do so. our correspondent theresa tropper joined those crowds on the streets of tehran to see how people in the capital are celebrating today. this way of strength by the government there's actually there are several under her around. one still not. schoolchildren that sound watching from the side of your phone if you want to make that you know that side of the main demonstrations back in nineteen seventy many of them are supporters of the revolution showing that race. nobody. has one supreme leader. how many they missed their care and you know they also are sounding like. the america. was however i just enjoying the fact that they can form their

own city and economy. however with the country in the fetus economic growth years on them that you cannot back. down the recent days you have to want to make a. better economic conditions where. i'm joined now for more on that with by a leaf a tola measure he's a political scientist focusing on iran with the brookings doha center in a concert i lead now president rouhani he addressed the crowd at those celebrations in tehran how was it possible that this regime is able to still mobilize so many people in the streets for these anniversaries. well i mean. in the recent past when we had anniversaries of the revolution as well they're normally a lot of people also carried in from different parts of the country who are

given some benefits when it's ending on the other hand the regime has a social base one that is also benefiting from from privileged access to resources so there is a combination of both factors. given those tough u.s. sanctions in the country. is there something for those people in the streets today to celebrate. well the pictures looks quite bleak if you remember the uprising that happened in iran a year ago you see there is a crisis there are multiple crisis affecting this republic social political economic and ecological so there is a lot of frustration even president romney admitted very simply that the economic situation is. in the forty year history of the song republic certainly the reimposition of top u.s. sanctions have exacerbated the economic situation but yet we have to remember that

the or the bulk of the economic challenges that iran faces is homemade there are structural constraints there is basically an oligarch you're running the country there is. so there is really a lot of structural problems that are homemade and there is huge social frustration among many sections of the population even among those who were. formerly considered to be part of the social base of the regime. because of the evidence of course with their younger generation i mean it's a relatively young country and the next generation they've been advocating reform so if you look ahead maybe what are your expectations for the future of iraq. well first of all if you look at the recent law you see that effort to reforming the system has not been successful and so this is why we see a tendency of radicalization among some sections of society who do not believe that

these comics you know islam republican system is you know is able to reform itself so there are more radical chants being being advocated by some texans of the population as we've seen my approach as over the year of two thousand and eighteen so the challenges remain in men and although of the islamic republic can survive now for forty years the president looks very fragile and the future is quite i'm. told in a job he's with the brookings doha center in qatar thank you very much you're welcome. now to some the other stories making news around the world venezuelan president nicolas maduro has warned that the country is ready to defend itself against the united states that says the country's military carried out exercises on sunday the embattled leader is being challenged by u.s. backed opposition leader. who declared himself interim president and is the managing new elections. thousands of protesters in haiti have clashed with police

in the fourth straight day of demonstrations against corruption and a collapsing economy protesters the tires and marched through the streets of the capital port au prince raising the pressure present what we see. the u.s. music industry celebrate the sixty first annual grammy awards on sunday in los angeles lady gaga was one of the big winners of the night taking home rewards the song of the year went to childish gambino so this is america and country singer kacey musgraves one album of the year for gold in our respective art. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh isn't barking on a five day tour to increase u.s. engagement in central europe as chinese and russian influence grows in the region on pales first off is hungary will then head to slovakia and poland in budapest he's expected to touch on topics including hungary's energy ties with russia and

the expansion of chinese telecom giant huawei it's the first time who the past has hosted a u.s. secretary of state since twenty eleven. let's head now to budapest where our correspondent stefan boss is standing by for us stefan just give us a sense of what's pales agenda will be on this visit to budapest. which well he will have to very agenda in the coming hours he will meet for instance human rights activists and that he sold so because there was international concern over due situation here in hungary we speak on gary and prime minister viktor orban being accused of cracking down old media and independent media especially and of course to your dish arete now he will also tool compiled to piece nice issues of course ways to government itself but it is saying time he wants to ensure it gets there he's not too much of russian influence here in hungary and the united states he

said very concerned about that and this will be definite the one of the topics as miss chinese influence here i think job on and president trump are often compared for being the strong leader populist leaders but how similar are the two countries agendas. well if you talk about migration day are very similar and of course a deficit one of the recent so why the hungary and prime minister was one of the first european leaders actually to supports a de actually to candidacy all trimmed at a time who was said then of course a presidential candidate but at the same time derry schooled certain in the united states over policies by prime minister or of on including for instance regarding the central p. in the european university to central european university because that's a was founded by us billionaire george soros not old though he has different political views than the president truman the u.s.

is concerned that that university feels forced to move most of its courses to neighboring because of the pressure here and it is still really a concern of the united states and also some other issues and i think will be brought up as well during his questions with stuff hungary and government today. that was our correspondent in budapest stephon boss britain's economic growth slowed to just two tenths of a percent at the end of last years suggesting its economy is in a weak position as britain gets sets of leave the european union at the end of next month with lawmakers in london still deadlocked on the terms of that withdraw all economists in the e.u. are starting to speculate about the cost to their own countries if britain crashes out of the e.u. without a new trade arrangement. with no deal breaks it still on the horizon nervousness is the order of the day across the e.u. and the latest survey out by one of germany's leading research institutes provides little comfort it says germany could face as many as one hundred thousand job

losses in the wake of a disorderly breaks it germany relies heavily on exports for growth and no deal breaks it would likely mean new custom duties on exports to britain causing a slump in german exports the survey says coal makers could be hardest hit with v.w. top of the list germany's not alone and disorderly breaks it would affect other countries too within the e.u. germany is followed by frumps where fifty thousand jobs could be at risk china meanwhile could lose around fifty nine thousand jobs and the total worldwide could be more than six hundred thousand. meanwhile signs of the potential damage to britain's economy are also becoming clear a new survey by the nun school of economics shows that since the two thousand and sixteen referendum british companies have shifted investment from britain to the e.u. stepping it up by as much as twelve percent around ten billion euros most come from

the services sector one the british economy is heavily reliant on meanwhile the news investment in britain has done dropping by as much as eleven percent in the last two and a half years the report's authors say that that shows pricks it has made britain a far less attractive place to invest in. the world is in crisis at least that's the verdict from a report published ahead of the munich security conference leaders of all the major powers are meeting in the southern german city of munich this week to discuss global threats at a time when alliances that it kept the world relatively stable for decades are under strain before this year's event the head of the security conference came to berlin to present his report. it's a hundred pages long and it's not a reassuring read the global order is falling apart who will pick up the pieces is

the question posed at this year's security conference conference chairman what god expects the europeans to take the lead and putting the pieces of the puzzle back together. so should we simply stand by while a liberal international system based on institutions on rules and on the law just crumbles. faced. for german and european interests that would be a tragic a catastrophic development. i mean. one important issue will be defense spending and increased attention following the cancellation of the i.m.f. treaty and for the first time climate change were not just be a sideshow because climate policy as a central aspect of security policy. as we want to demonstrate that climate and security are of central importance not only

for us and europe but also for instance for ireland states and the pacific. protections are correct they will lose some of their territory they might end up completely covered by water. people then go to. the size of the delegation from the united states has tripled in size and includes house speaker nancy pelosi for issue it's a signal that in the u.s. too there's an interest in cooperation and in avoiding a dissolution of the international system. we're joined now by our political correspondent simon young look simon the host of this upcoming conference. is warning about quote a new era of great power competition i mean is this alluding to maybe a new cold war yeah in a way nice but i think the conflicts and potential conflicts the munich security

conference is going to be focusing on they go way beyond the cold war as we would have understood it in the twentieth century of the munich security report that's being launched today is entitled to great puzzle who would pick up the pieces so it is about really the question if you like what happens in this room based global system if the u.s. in particular pulls back and no longer wishes to be the guarantor of stability and so on it is about nato and russia in that sense the cold war and the tensions that have grown there but it's also france it's about the rise of china we're going to see. member of the pull it bureau china's. top foreign policy spokesman is coming to munich so that's going to be an important focus but many other things as well africa. migration what does that mean for for security

issues around the world or the festering wounds in the middle east of course as ever climate change what does that mean for security and the arms race in space there are a lot of things to focus yeah packed agenda a lot of talk there what are the chances then that people see this i.n.f. treaty come up in these talks i'm think it's sure to be a key focus you know you've had the americans and the russians pulling out of this intermediate range nuclear forces treaty with recriminations on both sides donald trump says you know we're increasing all our hospitals of all kinds of weapons so there's a desperate need to talk what's a good salary and a huge american delegation big. and we've ever seen that new before of fifteen members of congress even more than that perhaps including and nancy pelosi and mitt romney and many others they all going to be talking whether they'll be progress on ins and on the matter so much on the agenda here this is taking place though of

course in germany in munich. germany is a big part of the european union what can e.u. leaders do about all these issues. i think there's a recognition that the e.u. does need to do more than to pave more is donald trump says well that's happening if not quickly enough but as well finishing it was saying today you know they need to develop better more effective defense cooperation there are some projects in the pipeline for instance a franco german fighter aircraft they've been talking about pooling and sharing capabilities for many years but a lot of people say you know more needs to be done so they'll be. concerns of course about bret's it what does that mean for european defense cooperation we'll see the french german and british defense minister talking together on a panel in munich i'm going to start on friday is the main event ok political correspondent simon young thanks a lot. women are still lagging behind in science related careers making up fewer than thirty percent of science and tech researchers worldwide you know sco

says participation in fields such as information and communications technology natural science mathematics and statistics is especially low the agency believes that longstanding biases stop girls and women from choosing jobs in science in the first place now today is the un's international day of women and girls in science started four years ago to break stereotypes and help provide equal access to science on asako from our science department she's here now with more on this now on a i can hear a lot of people out there saying look at it's twenty nineteen what's the deal why do we still need this international day of women and girls in science what's holding women back well there are many reasons were mentioned already discrimination buys this but they are also social norms and expectations and the other reason could be because there's a lack of female role models so the history in science has been written as a history of man we don't know many females i'm just maybe mary corinne want to

know both my sis for research in radioactivity of course but other than dat actually it's quite sad because they have been a lot of female scientists out there even thousands of years ago. the first woman whose name appears in the history of science is present yet she practiced medicine and trained more than one hundred midwives over four thousand years ago. bella to kalim a babylonian is regarded as the first female chemist she produced per fume and developed a chemical process is still in use today such as distillation she lived a little over three thousand years ago. about fourteen hundred years later patsy of alexandria was the first woman to lecture in astro me on mathematics but this was an outrage to some clerics and she was later

murdered. history books bear the story of her killing but not of scientific achievements many women pursued the sciences and the centuries that followed in seven hundred eighty six the german astronomer colleen hassel was the first woman to discover a comet and was considered the first female in her profession but an untold number of female scientists were hardly acknowledged until late and nineteenth century. are looking back in the history books i mean big contributions there from from women scientists what's the situation like now today well we just celebrated done a strickland for winning the nobel prize in physics for her research with laser pulses but it's actually do you see being because you nest the data shows that women get to decide to pursue the stem korea actually drop out in disproportionate numbers so the reasons for dadt are really deep rooted and structural the length of even published a study last week showing that even the research funding is

a bias in how it gets the research on so funding is obviously really important things so if women are at a disadvantage care they won't pursue careers in science what are some successful strategies and how can we encourage more girls to start considering a career in science from the very beginning well approach has to be multifaceted of course we need. structural changes the koreans have to be more flexible woman shouldn't decide between having a family or pursuing a career and then also it's a little bit on all of us so we should reflect on our own biases who do really think of when we think of scientists is that a man or woman what do history books tell our children you know i just still telling detail off what's in a crick for example discovered d.n.a. or is it rose a limb is the mention of frozen in franklin who actually wrote the first notes about it so we should go to the extra mile make them and more visible and days like

these are really perfect for that right on a psycho today on the international day of women and girls in science thank you very much. the berlin international film festival is in full swing and d.-w. is of course there to give you a front row seat for all the latest premieres our correspondent i mean s. it was at the festival to review the operative which was partially filmed in secret in iran. us by like an actor must be able to deceive. co-stars d.n. kruger and martin freeman say this help them connect with their characters in the espionage thriller the operative written and directed by israeli filmmaker you've all. krueger plays rachel a woman without roots who was recruited by the israeli intelligence agency mossad for a mission in iran. rachel proves to be

a valuable asset entrusted with stealing information about iran's nuclear program. but rachel refuses to abandon her humanity creating a weakness in the israeli plot. the operative takes us into the conflict in the middle east mossad is portrayed as a heartless institution that is willing to sacrifice any number of human lives to achieve its goals and iran where some of the scenes in this film are secretly shot is shown as a country where everyone is forced to keep secrets it is really director adler is adamant that he has not made a political film i wouldn't make a film about iran i wouldn't know how i made a film where iran is a backdrop for some of the stuff and we tried to be as precise about it is possible but that i'm not in a position to you know to say something informative about you know the mood in iran or whatever i wouldn't presume to cast member cass anbar a canadian actor with iranian roots plays farhadi

a businessman caught up in rachel's mission and are echoed his director's objection to framing the film as political. as much as it is set. on a bad job that is politicize the this story is really human story it's about what happens to people in this world and the operative is not in competition at the billion dollars but it could still easily win over those who like a solid spy thriller. football player. has been released from custody in thailand. after the country of his birth brain withdrew a request to happen extradited the player who fled to australia and twenty fourteen on political grounds faced imprisonment in bahrain over vandalism charges which he denies following an international campaign for his release that threats now appears to be over. justice at last the hakim al-arabiya pictured here leaving custody in bangkok the bahraini footballer is set to return

to australia after three long months spent in a tight jail he was arrested in november while on his honeymoon in bangkok on an interpol warrant for his arrest in his native bahrain he'd been convicted of vandalizing a police station even though he was playing at a televised football match when the alleged offenses took place al-arabiya story drew international outrage now following his release the australian prime minister thank the thai government what we would like to do to know is to thank him showing appreciation to the tory government for the decision that i have taken today we greatly respect the process that they have had to work through those thoughts were echoed on twitter by amnesty human rights to the craig foster political campaign to secure justice for al-arabiya that increased pressure on thailand internationally. and arabia fled bahrain on political grounds in twenty fourteen and was granted refugee status by australia his family feared extradition would result in his

torture and possibly death at the hands of bahrain's justice system but as a result of monday's ruling he's now heading home to melbourne. and a reminder of the top story that we're tracking for you right now today marks the fortieth anniversary of the revolution that brought resume change in iran the day of celebration is underway in tehran even as ordinary iranians are feeling the effects of the latest round of u.s. sanctions will be covering that for you throughout the rest of the day. you're watching news. coming up next on t.w. news asia end of life video emerges of a weaker musician jailed in china but some of her observers still believe he died in custody. and to talk about a paint job look at the spectacular not to stand trial card that's become the global economic. model for god you can always get g.w. news on the go just download our top player from the top

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