this is d.w. news live from berlin the islamic republic of iran turns forty thousands of people are marking the anniversary in the streets but many have little to celebrate for decades after the mullahs came to power we asked what impact u.s. sanctions are having also coming up fewer than a third of researchers in the science related field worldwide are female on the international day of women in science we ask our gender stereotypes still getting in the way. plus freedom for the football player hockey team although he was

arrested in november on his honeymoon in thailand today authorities have let him go after the country of his birth brain ended attempts at extradition. i'm calling assman bulk of the program iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution tens 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 will ask anyone for permission to do so. our correspondent terrorists are 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 a mistake that i say that we are. when i was still

was in law. school and still. watching from the side oh yes i was made out of that and signed the demonstrations back in nineteen seventy many of them to the supporters of the revolution showing that the race i don't know . has been supreme leader. how many they missed their career and you know they're also starting on that stuff and there are. others however just enjoying the fact that they can form their own city in a condo. however with the country in the biggest economic growth years more than that and i suspect that the answer is yes i want to make a. better economic conditions for everyone. well it's not just the ailing economy that's causing growing discontent with any wrong across the country women are rising up against the country's strict religious rules and. joins me for

more on the women defying iran's leaders that's right so one of the main protest movements that sprung up over the last couple of years is called hash tag white wednesdays where basically people are protesting against iran strict laws about what women can wear and so on wednesdays women are putting on white items of clothing all completely removing their he job which is forbidden and then they're uploading these videos of their protest to social media sending a message to religious leaders that they want submit to what they say is oppression i said these protests take place on wednesday but in actual fact they've grown to be much more frequent than not so women are walking the streets and saying well we can do this i'm out of the place all the time but it isn't without consequences last year an iranian woman was sentenced to two years in prison for what was called encouraging moral corruption now despite that i mean it looks like these protests are going. beyond just protesting is the job that's right it applies to things like

dancing as well because in iran there are strict laws against dancing women cannot dance in front of a man that isn't a family member and so this is of course encouraging civil disobedience and more videos on social media of people dancing videos like this are beginning to surface and they typically pop pop were not far at least punish other people for dancing so people post in support of other people who fall in foul of the law and then twenty fourteen authorities sentenced these some of these young men and women to six years in jail a suspended term after they appeared dancing to for real williams song happy normally dancing carries a penalty up to two years in jail now i can hear the criticism already jerod you know that's all well and good but these are just videos on social media i mean is there any indication that these online protests are changing anything in real life

while we've been speaking to our department today and we are in that and basically what they've said is that these social media movements contributing to a growing contempt for authorities in iran and a less fear of religious leaders we've got a video from iran of a woman in a subway station standing up to a cleric who's told her to put on the job and then interesting only other men come to her defense telling the cleric to leave her alone a similar situation where another man gets really in the face of a cleric who's told the smen swath to cover up so it's very interesting to see how previously unquestioned respect for people like clerics religious leaders in iran is changing while so those videos may be emboldening people to protest outside of social media thank you very much.

bennis whalen president nicolas maduro has warned that he's ready to defend his country against the united states embattled leader is being challenged by u.s. backed opposition leader who has declared himself interim president and is demanding new elections. defying it and the coolest maduro overseas military drills in venezuela's north the army his keep pillar of support presented missiles made by russia one of the duros most powerful allies has the weaponry was showcased on state t.v. he vowed to defend his troubled nation. for all four of us if we are pacifists as long as no one messes with us and donald trump does not threaten us. get out of it as we're out with your threats there are armed forces here and people to defend our honor and dignity. while madieu are already his troops dignity is what these

doctors on the border were pleading for on sunday they protested at the crossing where maduro's military is blocking humanitarian aid for some three hundred thousand people. rather i said. we call on the majority and the military especially the military to remember that every minute that passes a child dies an elderly person or an adolescent dies in our country but we urgently need this help to enter venezuela where somebody who was not murdered believes the relief which he calls a political show could be followed by u.s. led military intervention he blames the food and medicine shortages on sanctions imposed by washington there are fears that the aid has now become a powerful weapon in this standoff. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of protesters in haiti have clashed with police in the fourth straight day of

demonstrations against corruption and a collapsing economy protesters but tires and marched in the streets of the capital port au prince raising the pressure on embattled president weeds. authorities in indonesia have launched an investigation after footage emerged online of a suspect being interrogated with a snake officers are heard there threatening to put the serpent in the alleged pickpockets mouth and trousers the police have since apologized and said that the snake was not poisonous. in the us democratic senator amy klobuchar charles formally entered the twenty twenty presidential race the fifty eight year old politician from minnesota is the most prominent midwestern candidate to announce her presidential bid so far the democrats are hoping to win back voters in that region which helped put donald trump in the white house in twenty six twenty. and the u.s. music industry celebrated the sixty first annual grammy awards on saturday in los

angeles lady gaga was one of the big winners of the night taking home three awards the song of the year went to childish gambino so this is america and the country singer kacey musgraves one album of the year for gold and now. the berlin international film festival is in full swing and our experts are down there at the red carpet today that would be. just tell me first of all what films have you got to check out today. well i had a very interesting start to my morning with a viewing of a film called a tale of ghost towns this was above all a very creepy film i did not need to be jump scared several times at eight thirty in the morning besides that there was a very delicate intelligent slow film i would say but still very beautiful and very moving about this very small town in the middle of back in canada and it's

a film that really touches on themes of fear of the outsiders a little bit of xenophobia and this this constant theme of losing your identity losing your way of life as we see this town people sort of trickling out of it its identity is sort of being stripped away and then at the same time there are these weird apparitions of these people who are thought to have died who are just appearing all over town and really scaring the locals and the director in the press conference after the film started talking about you know come back is a part of the world that feels very isolated it feels very different from everything that surrounded it doesn't relate to america to the south it doesn't really relate to the rest of angle from canada and he wanted to capture not only this but this sense of what it's like in rural comeback where you're not only isolated from the rest of the region around you but isolated from the rest of your province are all that sounds a good wake up call this morning for sure you also got a sneak peek at the film vice that's something i want to see as well so that's

premiering later tell us what that's all about. exactly as this was a very political film if for no other reason than it is about the former us vice president dick cheney now speaking as an american i remember dick cheney i remember when he was in power and he would always do this shadow weave behind the scenes yes very very potent political figure but no one really knew a lot about him and these filmmakers the director and the actor who we heard from in the in the press conference talked about how hard it was to try to research and make this film as accurate as possible because the real life dick cheney has tried to leave as few bread crumbs as possible as to where exactly his fingerprints were during his time not only as vice president but all the various roles he held before he was vice president and what emerges is a movie that's. very in your face very creative in the way it tells the story

overall very entertaining but also kind of chilling in the way it connects things that vice president cheney had his fingers in in the way that sort of those effects have played out into even the modern era and the political situation that we see today just curious about how accurate is vice in terms of looking back at dick cheney. what that while right at the very beginning of the movie they have a title car that's basically explains dick cheney is a very shadowy figure there isn't a lot out there about him we did our effing best to literally what it says so you have to sort of take the entire film with a little bit of a grain of salt it seems like they may have over dramatize some situations obviously the conversations can't be all that accurate but it feels it really feels like you're in the room where a lot of these very. decisions were made quickly what else are you looking for today. well i'm very much looking forward to a documentary about

a wreath of franklin that's going to also be filming here called amazing grace and as a native detroiter aretha franklin died last year i am just wanting to soak up absolutely any bit of her that i can possibly still get and the reviews for this film have already been stupendous they say that you shouldn't just bring a box of tissues you should bring a complete bucket with you. all right. on the red carpet there the bear the knowledge for us thank you very much. now women are still lagging behind in science related careers making up fewer than thirty percent of science and tech researchers worldwide you know says participation in fields such as information and communications technology natural science mathematics and statistics is especially low the agency believes the long standing bias is stop girls and women from choosing jobs in science in the first place today is the un's international day of women and girls and science it 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 we mentioned already discrimination but they also social norms and expectations another 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 female scientists maybe marie curie want to noble this for research in radioactivity of course but other than debts actually it's quite sad because to 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 calum

babylonian is regarded as the first female chemist she produced perfume 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 her patsy of alexandria was the first woman to lecture in astro me and mathematics but this was an outrage to some clerics and she was later murdered. history books bear the story of her killing but not scientific achievements many women pursued the sciences and the centuries that followed in seven hundred eighty six the german astronomer kali national 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 in the 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 was that being so if women are at a disadvantage there 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 koreas have to be more flexible women 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 feel telling detail all of what's in a crick for example discovering d.n.a. or is it rosalynn is the mention of frozen in franklin who actually wrote the first notes about it so we should go to 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. britain's economic growth slowed to just two tenths of a percent of the end of last year suggesting that its economy is in a weak position as britain gets ready to leave the european union at the end of next month with lawmakers in london still deadlocked on the terms of that

withdrawal economists in the e.u. are starting to speculate about the costs to their own countries if britain crashes out of the e.u. with out a new trade agreement. with a 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 breck's 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 comic has could be hardest hit with v.w. top of the list germany's not alone the disorderly breaks it would affect other countries to within the e.u. germany is followed by france 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 number one 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 e.u.'s investment in britain has dying for dropping by as much as eleven percent in the last two and a half years the report's authors say that that shows bricks it has made britain a far less attractive place to end. thank. footballer hakim raby has been released from custody in thailand after the after the country of his birth bahrain withdrew a request to extradite him the player claimed asylum in australia in twenty

fourteen saying he feared torture and even death if you were sent back following an international campaign for his release that threat now appears to be over. justice at last the hakim araby pictured here leaving custody in bangkok the bahraini footballer is set to return to australia after three long months spends 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 in a televised football match when the alleged offenses took place al-arabiya story drew international outrage now following his release the australian prime minister thanked the thai government what we would like to do know is to. show our appreciation to the toy government for the decision that they have taken today we greatly respect the processes that they have had to work through those thoughts

were echoed on twitter by amnesty human rights ambassador craig foster political campaign to secure justice for al-arabiya that increased pressure on thailand internationally. and oraibi 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. let's get more on hakim al arabiya release and for that we bring in andrew or sati of the international football players union a fifth pro which represents sixty five thousand footballers and you were part of this campaign the save campaign first tell me what was your reaction when you heard the news that he was being released. immense relief yeah it was incredible this is what we worked for every day to help people play as a people first and

a player was in need this player was not even a member of our affiliate in australia the professional football association and yet when this issue was brought up immediately we saw it galvanize an entire football community first you know straight year that internationally then other sports weighed in human rights organizations it was truly incredible having been involved in in different attempts to help players at all kinds of levels but but this truly is something i will remember for a long time just because of the way it we were able to impact the discussion globally governments all the different key stakeholders in this and the manner in which it all came about in the end it was amazing really so al-arabiya he was behind bars for around three months he might have even been days away from extradition why do you think that he's been released now. i think there's a number of issues at play here first of all he should never have been held in

thailand because of the fact that he is that refute g. and he should be afforded all protection that entails so this is a question also of human rights and this is not just a football player this is a person and this applies to all refugees all citizens who travel the world and especially for athletes sometimes we think about the fact that they need to train and compete internationally and and refugees who are in this situation will have to always be aware of where they go to when they need to be protected they need to know that there are this status of refugees gives them the ability to travel freely however when you look at the case and what happened from the very beginnings when the likes of the australian international break lost the got involved through the many lawyers behind him and many other people with big hearts and started pushing this in australia and then later expanding to asia and then the world with my help and that of spread the message we saw a lot of pressure being brought to bear through international media various

ambassadors who came out speaking for him but in the end as much as we campaigned for this on the basis of him being a football and athlete it was the governments of bahrain thailand and australia who had to find a solution and i think that's what you saw come about in the last week or so the intervention of the australian prime minister being key after he was ignored repeatedly by his thai counterpart suddenly we saw a breakthrough and all of these pieces came together in the end to give the people who need to sort this out at the governmental level the leverage they needed to really push it through and i think that's what it was in the end there was a way for both bahrain to step away from the case and not seek his extradition any longer and for thailand's also say ok but no longer wants him he can go and so on but there are some key issues here key learnings about this that we will address in time about what is the role of international law an internationally recognised

human rights to protect refugees and or sati helping us break that down is with the international football players union if pro thank you very much. thank you to the buddhist leader and their braman are in celebration mode this week marking the one hundred twentieth anniversary of the club and they started the party in their match against out burger recording their biggest buddhist legal win of the season. good flyers are back in bremen and visiting alex berg were given no rest but straight from the whistle. put the hosts ahead after just eight minutes with this piece of individual brilliance. hausberg struggled to deal with grim ins ruthless intensity you had a second time smashed home the second perfect hit to leave keeper grego krugel stranded. just minutes later braman strained forward again.

fox three sox third and cold home. a stunning strike and braman with three no luck heading into half time. after the break braman took their foot off the gas but still remained dominant substitute kevin moved out rounding off the four nail victory in the eighty third minute. happy days for vertebrae men as they celebrated their anniversary wake in style. and remind of the top story that we're following for you right now today marks the fortieth anniversary of the revolution the baath regime change in iran day of celebration is underway in tehran even as ordinary iranians are feeling the effects of the latest round of u.s. sanctions. you're watching d.w. news coming up next is d.w. news africa sorry to have news asia a proof of life video emerges of a musician jailed in china but some observers still believe he's died in custody.

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