ns it. malaria. so millions can live. this is the the british life for the islamic republic of iran turns fourteen thousand of us free on the streets but many have little to celebrate for decades after the mullahs came to power we consider the impact of u.s. sanctions also on the program. freedom for football or hockey i'll try to be arrested during his honeymoon in no from the total farce he's released to the day

after his birth country and if it's extradition attempts. to house them for they sterling staring at the velvet alleys the silver screen. the red carpet at the sixty ninth annual international berlin film festival will bring you all the latest on the films in competition as well as all the news and the star sightings from today. i'm phil welcome to the program. iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital tehran for a rally that president hassan rouhani he told crowds that iran is determined to expand its military power and ballistic missiles program i would ask no one for permission the w.'s to research joining the crowds in the streets.

death to america death to israel and death to england a slogan frequently chanted by the many people out on the streets of tehran today it's a display of strength by the supporters of the islamic revolution in a carnival like atmosphere. has come here with his wife and it's not among those joining in but he still believes in the islamic republic as a political system in comparison to other countries in the region like saudi arabia like other countries that's. a conflict dictatorship actually all. i think you know in this region having. a great country and government. is a great thing. like most people here went even born at the time of the revolution in

one nine hundred seventy nine but they still believe in its ideas. we celebrate today because it's the only revolution that has lasted for forty years and the world. we're here to slap america and israel in the face of the clearly. mr trump you can never defeat you slim and trim illusion you have a chance to control it for sticking to ethics and keeping your promises on the nuclear deal with the ira but now these limits republic will be united to kim's military threats very deliberately in his own little you should know how to use you said you knew that. but. not everyone out on the streets today feels comfortable telling us their thoughts about the end of their street. anything down there i can't answer your question because i cannot tell the truth. i'm just here to take photos or he's not for the celebration at all. you know.

most people who said hello to you stayed at home today so they're not around but they do exist many people here know that it's highly happy with the current situation the country is in the ones with reform the syrians are still waiting for the personal freedoms president rouhani has promised them and the poor ones are very much suffering from the u.s. sanctions that are contributing the country's economy but the support for this not republic as a whole is apparently still strong so one general rule seems to remain the more confrontation with the u.s. the more support for the hardline here. doesn't seem hostile towards the u.s. but following its withdrawal from the nuclear deal he thinks washington can't be trusted he believes iranians hold the key to a brighter future in their own hands i think if we you know seal be unified unified country to separate our governments in this situation and.

come out of this situation i hope shared by many because so far the islamic revolution has yet to fulfill its biggest promise better economic conditions for everyone here in your run. alley fertile on the jobs of political scientists for the brookings doha center given that people in today's march will be children and government workers who have busted him i asked him whether ordinary people were risking mocking this out of us or. well. there is a lot of frustration among the many sectors of iranian society so we've seen also in the posturing those anniversary festivities start to the crowds were not as large as expected so this is this is concerning. and let's give the possible collapse of the iran nuclear deal on the country's economic struggles that actually have much to celebrate today. well at the picture doesn't look so good

there are men such economic problems in iran there are high prices. there are a lot of there is high levels of poverty there are a lot of closures and surprises there is high youth unemployment and so there are a lot of very challenging so to kind of problems that were homemade but exacerbated by the reimposition of youth section plus the fact that politically. iran is in a stalemate with the moderate government also losing a lot of credibility and also with hardline line is now expected to you know to to be more prominent in the future and iraq and so how does one play into the other how does the. filing i can all make situation play into the country's politics. because if you look at the protests that have been quite wide spread over the year of two thousand and eighteen you've seen that. the

origins and sources of the protests words of economic or ecological but they always had a very politicized slogan because in these younger public you cannot really separate those fears kaname and policy and politics because it's the same elite that monopolizes a lot of economic and political power and this is also something that the iranians realized this is why all those bad economic protests are very political in nature and so obviously iran and the united states not much in common i wonder though if the whole notion of this death so that america that we've seen on the marches that i want to see that's how much that has to do with the government giving the people an enemy to emmaus rather than taking responsibility for the state of the economy. well i mean those state sponsored

demonstrations always try to you know point to the you know always support those slogans actually emanate from the people but those are state sponsored as we've seen during the past year. despite the imposition of u.s. sanctions and quite hostile of policies from the continent's ration iranians have tended to blame their own government for the economic problems at home so there's not really a rallying around the flag in fact as we. go during the bush administration years for example so there is some kind. of there's huge frustration that people do blame their own government but of. course it's good talking to you thank you so much for joining us now. from here brookings doha center in qatar. advantage where nicholas mid-autumn has warned us he is ready to defend his country

against the united states the embattled president is being challenged by opposition leader why does declare himself interim president you need three weeks ago and one backing from a number of countries including the u.s. was to go i don't know is demanding fresh presidential elections. because defiance nicolas maduro overseas military drills in venezuela's north the army his keep pillar of support presented mistrials made by russia one of madieu roles most powerful allies as the weaponry was showcased on state t.v. he vowed to defend his troubled nation. normal for all of us if we are pacifists as long as no one messes with us and donald trump does not threaten us trump get out of it as will all 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. we call on them adore regime 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. we urgently need this help to enter venezuela. 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 the standoff. 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 consecutive day of demonstrations against corruption on the collapsing economy protesters late tiles

and march through the streets of the capital port au prince are raising the pressure on the battle to present moisi. on the italian island of sardinia have found an eye catching while protesting against foreign revenue they've been spilling that milk unsuspecting much wrister jacked to lower prices produces a currently getting sixty euros sixty euro sides for a liter of milk compared to eighty five cents last year. thailand's election panel has disqualified king sr from running for prime minister in much as the election just three days after. but thomas surprised domination of the commission said members of the royal family should be above politics for. us music industry celebrated the sixty first i mean will rogers in los angeles on sunday may be god god was one of the big with us taking our three awards a song of the year went to childish gambino so this is america i'm singing country

singer kacey musgraves one album of the year golden. bowl and so national film festival is in full swing. is today's red carpet correspondent. what have you seen today. well i had a quite interesting start to the day especially for a monday morning there was a town called stories of ghost towns that featured several jump scares at eight thirty in the morning which by me personally was not appreciated but nonetheless it was a very beautiful delicate and intelligent film that dealt with a lot of questions of loss of identity is enough phobia fear of the other in general as you see this this tiny little town in the middle of nowhere back in canada these weird apparitions of these ghosts of former villagers have all died started just randomly appear around town and the town tries to deal with what

exactly they are and who they are and why they're there i will also note that this film is in quetta quite french so if you are a person who thinks they speak french i highly challenged you to try to watch this film with the subtitles off because while that was different ok you've also had a look at device which is to to see some red carpet action that tonight. oh indeed this was quite a film to see personally as an american this is a film about the former vice president dick cheney and i'm old enough that i remember dick cheney era member when he was vice president he was always seen as this sort of shadowy background figure often the jokes at the time were about how he was the actual brains behind the outfit during the bush cheney presidency they're in their early to thousands this movie is very much leans into that tells a lot of the story that people don't know he has maintained

a lot of privacy since he's left the public eye and he has really tried to even when he was in government keep his fingers fingerprints very clean it's really there was not a lot of records available as to what exactly he influenced in what he did in the movie dives into exactly what his influence was what his role was in the administration how big his influence was and how that has carried forward to the modern political era to what else can we look forward to today. well i personally in the next couple of days i'm looking forward to a film called amazing grace which is a documentary in the competition that was shot in january of one thousand nine hundred seventy two it is about aretha franklin who just left us in august of two thousand and eighteen and it is a filming of the recording of her most famous album called amazing grace which is still the best selling gospel album of all time and me personally as a detroit or i am very much looking forward to lapping up anything i can get that's left of the queen of soul. will enjoy. international film festival thank you.

a few of them thirty percent of science researchers around the world off email according to unesco participation in the fields of information and kimock communications technology natural sciences mathematics and statistics are particularly love the agency believes that long standing. long standing biases against girls and women. are stopping them from choosing jobs in science 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 the discipline. but it let's get more on this from a psycho from d.w. science welcome ana so in these liberated days while you do we still need an international day of women in science well there's a lot of things that still hold women and girls back so there are bias and discrimination is that already there are social norms and expectations and maybe

it's also because of the lack of female role models in science you see let's be honest who do we know really know which female scientist do we really know by name except of mary currie for example because of her research in rejected because you want to nobel prizes of course maybe computer geeks know it because she wrote the first rhythm but apart from that they just not appear or rarely appear in history books and that's a real shame because there have been a lot of women in science already thousands of years back then and we should hear more about them. the first woman whose name appears in the history of science is passing. she practiced medicine and trained more than one hundred midwives before fastened years ago. to a condom. 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. xandra was the first woman to lecture in astronomy and mathematics but this was an outrage to some parents plan she was later murdered. history books tell a story of her killing but not of her scientific achievements. many women pursued the sciences in the centuries the followers in seventy six the german astronomer. was the first woman to discover a comet she was considered the first female in her profession but an untold number of female scientists were hardly acknowledged until late in the nineteenth century . so what is the situation today do women's contributions still.

well we just celebrated sedona strickland for winning the nobel prize in physics last year so you might think the situation has gotten a bit better but actually it has not unesco data just or revealed that a lot of the women that do pursue careers in stem actually drop out and a. disproportionate number so there seems to be a problem was just really structural and it's difficult to deal with there is a bias against women decide to fix feel the lens just published a study a way to found. that even for research funding there is a bias so when they focused on. rather than on the science women way of a clear disadvantage and wouldn't get the funding so this is funding your thoughts is who who refuse to give who don't give them the money because their women well

it's peer reviewed peer reviewed. commission that study the papers and decide on the funding so when they know that this paper comes from a woman and they they rather decide to to not give it too damn not of course because she's a woman but they the women are just judged less then when they don't know if it's a woman or a man so what would encourage more girls to consider sort of the careers well the approach must be multifaceted of course we need more inspirational we need more role models but we also need to do structural changes with women should be allowed to have a more flexible career to should decide between careers and having children and then also we should all like it's a bit on all of us we should all reflect alibi is this so when we talk about scientists when we think of a scientist what do we think about is it a man or woman what do history books tell us for example in the case of d.n.a.

is that still told the story of watson and crick discovered d.n.a. or is there notion of president franklin who weren't the first notes on it so we all must make more for an effort to go the extra money women female scientists more visible and that would be a good way. from a to do good science thank you. what do efforts to opioid. states have to do with farmers in tasmania quite a bit as it turns out the australian state produces half of the raw materials used in paid kit painkillers worldwide so efforts to reduce prescriptions in the us have left the poppy farmers far afield struggling. poppies as far as the eye can see here in cressy in northern tasmania farmers are harvesting their progeny use. once upon

a time these crops were in high demand knots anymore. now instead of being the jays as crop i guess it's just another one of many to help with. crops just six years ago there are about thirty thousand hectares of poppy fields in tasmania. there are just and levon thousand hectors left. and devastating images like these are among the reasons why. every year tens of thousands of people die from an opioid relations drug overdose in the united states many of them developed addictions after being prescribed painkillers by their doctors. this is prompted the government to take action to reduce the number of prescriptions being handed out and those efforts have been having an effect in one thousand nine hundred two doctors in the us issued a total of one hundred twelve million opioid prescriptions two decades later the number peaked at two hundred eighty two million since then attempts to get the

figures down have been successful in twenty seventeen there were one hundred ninety one million prescriptions recorded. but one country solution to a serious problem has forced farmers in another part of the world to adjust. the market is the market. tasmania produces half of the roll material used in pain killers worldwide but if demand continues to drop the country's poppy industry will be left with a headache for which there is no obvious relief. for the football or hockey team he has been released from custody in thailand after his birth country withdrew its request for his extradition was to arrive being claimed asylum in australia and twenty fourteen saying he feared torture and death if he was sent back the international campaign for his release began when he was arrested in thailand

during his honeymoon. justice at last for a ride be pictured here leaving custody in bangkok. the bahraini footballer is to return to australia after three long months spent in a toy jail he was arrested in november while on his honeymoon in bangkok on an interpol warrant 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 our robbie's release owes a lot to form a footballer craig foster who led a campaign to secure justice for the player. his fate are on australian ground tomorrow and it's going to be a cause for very very significant. celebrations and as you say you know it's been a very very intense campaign. the fled to bahrain on political grounds in two

thousand and 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 his time behind bars has ended. let's get more on this from a hundred or sassy he's from faith pro the international football players union which is part of the save hakim campaign welcome to d w what was your reaction when you heard the news a huge relief for joy it was something to say this is the kind of thing we work on day in day out to help players players who are people first and to see this get over the line and to know that i came is boarding a flight to return to his wife safely to australia is truly something special. now he was behind bars for around three months so why do you think he's been released

now well i think it's a number of elements that came together there was huge pressure from international media in the main time for more than two months we were working with a wide coalition of human rights organizations quite a few community governments and so in the end i think bahrain which effectively had hakim in an iron grip for so long seeking his extradition relinquished and handed over to thailand the idea that they can simply release him to go back to australia and i think that's in the end what it came down to the government's agreed that arcane should be freed the hakim was also a vocal critic of the asian football confederation do you think that played any part in his arrest. it's very difficult in this case to look at what specifically led to his let's say to arrest them within the fact that he was wanted back in bahrain for an offense they said he committed although the player did have an alibi

and it was pretty clear to us at least here a fifth row that it was not a credible case but there was a more fundamental issue at play and that was the fact that he is a refugee according to all the protection that entails in australia and he should be free to travel and if he goes to thailand he should know that he can safely go there without being an expedited back to the country which he said he fled because he claims he was tortured this so in the end both we're happy i mean this is a day to celebrate for us and and that's really the point here and we thank everyone who played a part. andro sati of international law football is a union pro so here's a reminder of our top story at this hour today marks the fortieth anniversary of revolution the polls regime change triggering a day of celebrations underway in teheran france are right and continue to feel the effects of the latest in all the u.s. such as. watching d.w. news live from both coming up indeed a few news asia i mean

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