truth detectives starts feb fifteenth on t.w. . this is true that we do is live from the islamic republic of iran turns forty thousand small town of us tree on the streets but many have little to celebrate for decades after the us came to power we consider the impact of us such. a small act of defiance says a woman in tacloban to shout it out for not covering her head. the cleric aside that's not everything and the religious establishment was also on the program.

freedom for football or hockey and i be arrested during his honeymoon in november but tidal forces released him today after his birth country and its extradition attempts. welcome to the program. iran's marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital for a rally led by president assad rouhani he told the crowd that iran is determined to expand its military power and ballistic missile program and would ask no one but the mission into booster is a truck joint the crux. of 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 completely creatorship actually all manner i think you know in this region having a democratic country government. is a great thing. like most people here went even born at the time of the revolution in one thousand 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 this living. mr trump you can never defeat you seven trip illusion you have a chance to control it first to control and fix and keep your promises something nuclear deal with. now the islamic republic of the united tick and smear it's a restricts the very day a little billion dollars or listen to music ahead of us you said you knew that. but . not everyone out on the streets today feels comfortable telling us their thoughts about the anniversary. anything down the line i cannot answer your question because i cannot tell the truth. i'm just here to take photos not for the celebration at all. if you know i'm a big name. most people who share held views stayed at home today so they're not around but they do exist many people here i know there's hardly any 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 to the country's economy but the support for this what republic is a whole is apparently still strong so one general rule seems to remain full the more confrontation with the us the more support for the hardliners here in iraq. 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. seal be unified a unified country. 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. not just sharing economy causing growing discontent within iran across the country women are rising up against the strict religious rules of jerad read here's to hear more on the women defying the country's leaders that's right so a couple of years ago it is this movement called white wednesdays hashtag white wednesday sprung up and basically it was in protest against the strictures of laws in iran governing what women can and can't wear and by. sickly women wore on wednesdays or some even took off which is of course didn't and then they did these protest videos to social media sending a message to iran's religious leaders that they're not going to submit to what they say is oppression and i just mention that these protests type place on wednesday but they've sort of sprung up to take place more often than not they're much more frequent so women saying we want to walk around without

a huge job any time any place but it doesn't come without consequences last year an iranian woman was sentenced to two years in jail for what was called encouraging moral corruption. that's right it applies to things like dancing as well because there are strict rules laws governing dancing in iran women cannot dance in front of anyone else except a male relative and of course this is encouraging acts of civil disobedience which also make their way to social media and videos like this popping up more and more frequently they typically. authorities punish other people for dancing so people post them in support of others who fall foul of the law or people like these young men and women some of them were sentenced to six sentences suspended prison terms back in twenty fourteen when they appeared in

a video dancing to for real williams song happy dancing in public in iran can carry a prison sentence up to two years in jail and so these protests look we are. today and basically they're saying that these acts of civil disobedience that make their way to social media. contributing to a growing contempt of authorities and religious leaders and a culture of fear. lists and lists we have a video to show you of a woman in a subway station who was standing up to a cleric telling her to put on him that he shot and then we can see them in telling the cleric to leave her alone and coming to the fence essentially and another situation where a man is telling off a cleric because they were told this man's wife to cover iraq so it's really interesting to see how these previously unquestioned authority to people like

clerics is starting to change in iran but just a great thank you. international film festival is in full swing d.w. . mush way to all prowling the red carpets hello both what's what's behind you what's going on. always so behind us just moments ago was christian bale himself of the batman walk. behind us on the way to the mirror readers are so close to greatness on his way to the premiere of vice his film that is premiering at the berlin film festival we're going to get to that in a second but the first thing that i saw this morning was quite a rude awakening is a rather creepy film called stories of ghost town that takes place in back in canada a foreign place yes you can maybe confirm whether or not it's a very creepy place but it revolves around a small town where all these weird apparitions of dead people who used to live

there come back and it's a meditation on what it means to lose one's identity when living in rural come back also an interesting french dialect to experience i will say that after a state interesting growing up right next to come back. i have to say that's why we should properly speak french so i'm not sure what her problem words oh right we're going to have to before we get into any international diplomacy you've seen vice what did we think. yeah it's interesting i mean this is a story of vice president for vice president dick cheney played amazingly in unrecognizably by christian bale just some of the red carpet anger he gained massive amounts of weight as he often does for roles he completely disappears in this role probably we're seeing just for that performance overall though i'm not sure what you thought but this is a film by mckay who made his name we're actually directing for saturday night live the comedy show in the united states and for me this film has a little bit of

a feel like an extended saturday night live sketch it's interesting it's funny very entertaining but there's a point when like steve corella comes on playing donald rumsfeld and you think it is old that's what's he doing it here and so perfectly fine movie perfectly enjoyable but i don't really think it goes that deep and i don't really think it has too much to say about the current political situation but the one thing that did do very well was showing the consequences of a lot of the actions that were decided as as put forward in the movie during that administration and sort of drawing the thread forward to kind of how we got to where we are today even if it didn't necessarily comment on the political situation we see in the us today you know with all due respect to your learned exposition that i wasn't really listening because we were we were actually seeing pictures from vice and i'm looking a dick cheney thinking that's christian bale really wow miles what else do you know

how it's phenomenal. well one movie that i am very much looking forward to is a movie called amazing grace which is about aretha franklin it's a documentary that was actually shot in january of one thousand nine hundred seventy two as she was recording her famous album amazing grace which is still the best selling gospel album of all time and as a native detroiter from the place where she is from i am looking to just lap up as much of the queen of soul as i possibly can and she left us in august twenty. fourth deployment here i'm right there with you i was so excited to see this film i've been hearing amazing things about it and i think we'll get the respect it deserves a brief he's got what else can we look forward to. in this out. well of course all be back in about a half hour on the culture show. we'll talk you were talking we talk about bollywood here at the billion dollar and for the anniversary of the iranian revolution we'll be talking to a documentary filmmaker who looks at how the trauma of those times still affects

iranians living in exile today. at the piano at the berlin ali thank you so much. take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. music industry celebrating the sixty first annual grammys in los angeles on sunday they goggle was one of the big with us taking home three awards song of the year went to childish gambino as this is america and country singer kacey musgraves one album of the year for golden. dairy farmers in shepherds on the italian island of sardinia have been venting their anger at falling revenues by hoarding milk to unsuspecting motorists prices of dip to sixty euro cents. compared to eighty five cents last year producers say this is not enough to live on. time and selection panel has disqualified the king's sister from running for prime minister

in march the election just three days after princess to the town of surprise nomination the commission said members of the royal family should be above politics . to venezuela where nicolas maduro was warm as he was ready to defend his country against the united states the embattled president is being challenged by opposition leader one quite dark declared himself interim president in the three weeks ago and one backing from a number of countries including the u.s. has to go i don't demanding a fresh presidential elections. defying it nicolas maduro overseas military drills in venezuela's north the army his keep pillar of support presented mistrials made by russia one of madieu rose most powerful allies as the weaponry was showcased on state t.v. he vowed to defend his troubled nation. from all four 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 business will out with your threats there are armed forces here and people to defend our honor and dignity. while maduro readied his troops dignity is what these doctors on the border were pleading for on sunday they protested at the crossing where my duros 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 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. the us secretary of state's mike pompei or has warned hungary not to let russia drive wedges between nato members but the past is the first stop of mr five nation tour to increase u.s. engagement in central europe and to counter a growing the chinese or russian influence during talks and he said that america had been too absent from the region and was an acceptable congress our foreign minister responded to its about criticism. responded saying that criticism of moscow was enormously popular say thank god this is the if you get syria. boss is in the hungaroring capital welcome it doesn't sound like a particularly harmonious exchange what else have we been hearing from the press conference. well what v. has been hearing a moment ago is actually. the american. secretary

they owe has also met activists actually and that's of course came in it's a cold seared. american officials about the way hungary has treated for instance the central european university which was founded by deliver old philanthropist george soros and that's university celta so much i intimidate its debts a day has moved now most of their courses to they say there is simply not an independent prime minister here at the helm and we cannot continue now what's also interesting doing to press conference is that mike from vail expressed concern about the growing influence over russia and china in hungary and the region but at the same time they did agree on a defense alliance. hungary has pledged to all kind of defense acquitting and from the united states including special missiles and so on

so they was so agreement but yes it is still a little still picks remain to be discussed between the two leaders so besides selling weapons to hungary i have but what else is the popping i see us planning to do to try and counter a growing russian and chinese influence in the region. well what it wants to do is to actually pressure a country say like hungry but also poland where he will go into chapter philip to make sure that they stay in line especially when we talk about the nato military alliance now the united states has expressed a soul well suited for a reaction regarding the inclement patient for instance committing two percent of g.d.p. to defense debts hungary wants to do thoughts at the same time you do united states remains very concerned about that the growing influence of russia because the

phrases the prime minister prime minister viktor orban has a very close ties this president vladimir putin and the briefly after hungary mr pump a is going on to slovakia and poland what is the broader agenda here. well the broader agenda really too expensive the cooperation between the united states and cities reaching out to make sure that they as so many u.s. officials have set remain in the west and fulled now of course he's also going to poland there will be a very important middle east cold fronts there actually less people than expected and that's because the european union is so angry at the united states about its away from its agreement with iran so we have to see how this will play out to fund boasts and budapest thank you. indian prime minister narendra modi has made in a tail to the world's oil producers to stabilize prices this after his country was

hit hard by roller coaster or prices and india is one of the world's biggest consumers with about eighty percent of the country's crude coming from outside its borders and has moved he strives to increase access to energy for more than a billion indians and demand can only go up. india already has the world's third largest appetite for energy and it's only getting hungrier energy use in the country growing by five percent annually at that rate it will double by two thousand and forty. appearing at a conference monday with representatives of the united arab emirates national oil company modi said his country needs help tackling energy costs we need to move to responsible pricing with balancing the interests of both the producer and the consumer. but that could be difficult or oil prices are set by global markets were opec has played the biggest role for decades the recent years uptick in american oil and gas fields has meanwhile altered the market last fall offered

a reminder of india's dependence when otherwise depressed oil prices suddenly jumped many felt the pain at the pump the overall trend toward falling prices has also made it harder for india to ramp up its own production and easier to import even more oil is not the best friend for an administration that wants to cut its reliance on imports. and the football hockey has been released from custody in thailand after his birth country withdrew its request for his extradition to be claimed asylum in australia in twenty fourteen saying he feared torture and the death if he was sent back his arrest in thailand during his honeymoon sparked an international outcry. justice asked for. 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 release owes a lot to form a footballer craig foster who led a campaign to secure justice for the player. and it's going to cause. four very very significant. celebrations and as you say is being you know spain a very very intense campaign i arrive 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 one hundred all saturday he's from faith pro the international football players that 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 going over the line and to know that i came 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 it 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 wider for community governments and

so in the end i think buffering 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 hakim should be freed but 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 the rest of it than 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 broke that it was not a credible case but there was a more fundamental issue at play and that was the fact that he's a refugee who did 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 sane and extradited back to the country which he said he fled because he claims he was tortured this so in the end of what 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 but given his status in australia it seems odd that it's taken this this coalition of international organizations rather than the australian government to just turn around to thailand saying would you mind not doing that. yes well if you look at the facts he is a football player playing at a lower division club in australia he wasn't even a member of the players' union in australia and still it was able to be elevated in australia then through the region of asia and into the international football community then others got involved the international olympic committee so many saw this person as an athlete and he was given extra attention because of it athletes don't forget need to travel to countries refugees need to travel to countries to train to compete and also football is

a part of this discussion look this is very important to send the message that refugees are protected and internationally recognised human rights and we are so glad that this message cut through in the end it was unacceptable that he was detained for nearly eighty days but look is going home and and let's just say be glad that it ends in this way where he now needs to be let's say taken care of because he went through a lot of psychological and mental to boil in that prison and now we have to take care of him moving forward and or saturday where the international football players are uniface brooks thank you and been listening to football vet abram and in celebration this week marking the club's one hundred twentieth anniversary i started the party on sunday with a much against our can record in their biggest business the when of the season. the good vibes are back in braman and visiting alex but were given no rest but straight

from the whistle. put the house ahead after just eight minutes with this pace of individual brilliance. hausberg struggled to deal with brambles ruthless intensity you had a second time smashed the second perfect hit to leave keeper grego cueball stranded . just a minutes later braman strained forward again. fox three stocks made and culled. 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 that of braman as they celebrated their anniversary wake in style the. next ten day w.

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