this is g.w. news from berlin tonight the islamic republic of iran turns forty thousands are marking the anniversary on the streets but many have little to celebrate four decades after the came to power we consider the impact of us saying sions on the country and a small act of defiance as a woman in tehran is shouted at for not covering her head but passing min confront the cleric a sign that not everything is going the religious establishment swing also coming

up tonight flight to freedom for football or hockey mouth. the words it's have released him after bahrain the country where he was born and it's extradition request. and here in berlin christian bale is in the hell so or at least he's on the red carpet for the film vice about the life and times of dick cheney he was george w. bush's vice president but some say he was the power behind the presidential forum. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us tonight iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution tens of thousands of people gathered today in the capital tehran for a rally led by president hassan rouhani. he told the crowds that iran is determined

to expand its military power and ballistic missile program and would ask no one for permission to. join the crowds. 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 conover 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 you know other countries in the region like saudi arabia like no other countries that's. a complete dictatorship actually all monitors i think you know in this region having had democratic

country governments is. there 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 revelation that has lasted for forty years and the world. we're here to slap america and israel in the face of the cliff earlier today mr trump you can never defeat you slam a triple loosen the half a chance to control it for sticking to ethics and keeping your promises something nuclear deal with kyra but now the islamic republic will be united to consumate it's a restricts the very day a little bit in his own lives has your mission ahead of us as we knew that. but not everyone out on the streets today feels comfortable telling us their thoughts about the anniversary. if. i can answer. no question because i cannot tell the truth.

i'm just here to take photos are yours not for the sun oppression national. television. most people who say 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 i've heard much suffering from the u.s. sanctions that are contributing the country's economy but the supporter put this what republicans a whole is apparently still strong so one general rule seems to remain true 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 the. seal be unified

unified country. separate their governments in this situation and be counted there are no come out of this situation i hope said by many because so far the islamic revolution has yet to fulfill its biggest promise better economic conditions for everyone here in your run. major show of support for the government today but as we heard their discontent in the economy is not the only issue across the country women are rising up against the regimes strict religious rules jared reed joins me now here at the big table for more on the women who are defying iran's leader that's right one of the main movements that's popped up over the last few years is cold hash tag wife wednesday's basically in protest against the strict rules that govern what women can and cannot wear in iran and the idea is that on wednesdays women wear an article of clothing that's why and some

even actually take off they he shot which is of course so beaten and then they upload protest videos to social media sending a message to iran as religious leaders that they're not going to submit to what i say is oppression and as you just mentioned these protests take place on wednesdays but they've grown to be much more frequent and that we've been saying well we want to do these not just on wednesdays but any time any place but of course it's not without consequences last year a woman was sentenced to two years in jail for what was described as encouraging moral corruption there obviously taking a risk by doing this they're not just protesting the rules regarding the job or they know they're protesting the rules regarding things like dancing because women are not allowed to dance in front of men that are not family members and this is a condition physical disobedience and again more videos social media videos

like this has taken on social media in iran and they typically pop up when authorities punish other people for don things or people post them in support of. fallen foul of the law in twenty fourteen authorities sentenced some of these young men and women to suspended prison terms for being in a video dancing to a song cold happy to. dance. in public can carry a penalty up to two years in jail is there any indication that these protests are actually changing i mean the law is the wall we are to our department here george valid today and basically they told us that these social media movements are contributing to a general feeling of contempt for authorities and a culture where authorities and religious leaders less and less fear nowadays and we've got a video to show you of a woman here in a subway station standing up to a cleric he's told to put on her he job and then interesting really other men

coming to her defense telling the cleric to leave her alone and similar situation elsewhere when a man really gets in the face of another cleric who told this man's wife to cover iraq it's interesting to see how in some ways social media is imploding people to question this previously on conditional respect for clerics and that that's changing it we wouldn't know about these these kinds of protests if we didn't have social media in the internet so i am wondering is it the regime in iran or the tempted then to turn off the internet or do you restrict access well. most social media networks ah blocked in iran but of course as in the case of many countries millions of iranians get around with with a v.p.n. and helps them get online juries always we appreciate your reporting excellent insights there thank you. here are some of the other stories now that are making

headlines around the world thailand's election panel as disqualified the king's sister from running for prime minister in march is election just three days after prince's tun his surprise nomination the commission said members of the royal family should be quote above politics dairy farmers on the hellion island of sardinia have vented their anger at falling revenues by pouring milk onto unsuspecting motorists prices have dipped of sixty euros since per liter compared to eighty five since last year producers say that's not enough to live on rescue workers in the south african city of durban have called a newborn baby alive from a storm drain after passers by heard her cries and alerted emergency services it's believed she was in the drain for at least five hours doctors have held the baby survival as a miracle thousands of protesters in haiti have clashed with police in the fourth

consecutive day of demonstrations against corruption and the collapsing economy protesters lit tires and marched through the streets of the capital port au prince raising the pressure on the embattled president juvenile. well the football or hockey team. who was detained in thailand is on his way home to australia now he was freed after bahrain where he was born withdrew its extradition request. claimed asylum in australia back in twenty fourteen saying he feared torture any even death if he was sent back is arrested in thailand during his honeymoon sparked an international outcry. justice lost for hockey team. pictured here finally boarding a flight back to australia. the bahraini 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. release owes a lot to form a footballer craig foster who led a campaign to pressure the ball raney government. actually wearing carriage to withdraw the extradition order that was always. acceptable. and it actually is the best outcome. of the fed 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 even death at the hands of bahrain's justice system now on the right he is finally on his way back to australia his ordeal behind bars in bangkok is last. art we'd like to

pull in now and bahraini human rights activists to talk about this case. is based in london with a group called the bahrain institute for rights and democracy and it's good to have you on the program tonight what with what was your first reaction to the news of how these release was little much at the real heat of the new was and then when i was reading it breaking he was on a b i was reading it again just to make sure that i'm reading it that i think it was an excitement moment it's m.-s. victory will be taught to victims and behind and it's also a message that it's a city that if the message that when when someone's separated when someone goes through that would be like a human i mean when one hundred one. and one thousand man it could be as good in doing and that's good ending with means that there should be persistence of

continuing to advocate on the case i do remember that but if they have scored that second called me from his prison cell in thailand telling me that about and therefore not this and now just to see all of this night the man is coming to and i can't fix a price to have been this for this moment and i cannot to express and yet this let me just ask you about what we understand that there are other people in bangkok in thailand who or what waiting for extradition to bahrain in other words there are other people who are in the same situation will they also have this happy ending. i mean frankly speaking i'm not at a cases but just for the record in two thousand and fourteen thousand as expedited at dorchester by of to behead and nate that we had amnesty international documented but he had a fit about how he was tortured even beaten at the airplane and the guy is up to

this moment is continue to sit and look for imprisonment and be subjected to and tortured to beat meant and behind so as as far as they know there isn't any pending cases. which i haven't had and i present are facing solution over this you know just by you know talking with us tonight you are a vocal critic of the authorities in bahrain and i gather that you even your family you say is is paying a price for that spoken criticism tell me about that. yeah as hack you said is that when individuals seek to move to end of the country to seek a refugee we thought that this is what we are going to get the protection we have a freedom of speech freedom of expression we could accept we could exercise our rights for this unfortunately i was stunned with that reality that my actions would

have consequences for me personally the consequences for the closest to me so that when the government went and able to come after me they came the closest the most beloved to me and they started with my infant son at eighteen months at the time i don't with his mother being how she was defeated at the airport and then to prom traveling following up with this i took against the king of to him during this seven hours of interrogation she was told that they were our family members one by one and in march two thousand and seventeen they started with in prison and had a mother brother and cousin and they all languish behind bars having between the three years to eleven years my mother in law being even denying by telling medical treatment and she being i guess it really beaten and tortured and that's when the united nations raised had a case where i'm at

a case was also it is in the british parliament right since september my mother no hasn't been able to see our family weeks and the votes have only will being the incident and a long list right there of mistreatment and we are we really do we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us this evening we certainly recognize the risks involved in doing that but. where do i have the bahrain institute for rights and democracy in london thank you very much thank you very much thanks. over his weight loss nicolas maduro has warned that he's ready to defend his country against the united states the embattled president is being challenged by opposition leader one who declared himself interim president nearly three weeks ago when one backing from a number of countries including the us why do his demanding fresh presidential elections. defying it and the coolest maduro overseas military

drills in venezuela's north the army his keep pillar of support presented mistrials made by russia one of my deros most powerful allies as the weaponry was showcased on state t.v. he vowed to defend his troubled nation. well forgive us if we are pacifists as long as no one messes with us and does not threaten us. get out of it as swill out with your threats their armed forces here and people to defend our honor and dignity one of them while maduro readies his troops dignity is what these doctors on the border were pleading for on sunday they protested at the crossing where madieu rose military is blocking humanitarian aid for some three hundred thousand people. read i said. 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 but it was not much 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. melissa and thirty percent of science research years around the world are women according to you know their participation in information and communications technology natural sciences mathematics and statistics is particularly low at the agency believes that girls and women are inhibited from choosing jobs in science because of long standing bias it's a day is the un's international day of women and girls in science started four years ago to break down stereotypes and to help promote equal access yet despite

big efforts they continue to be excluded from participating fully in science even the women's involvement goes back to ancient telling. the first woman whose name appears in the history of science is pastor since. she practiced medicine and trained more than one. hundred midwives over four fastens years ago. a condom about a loony and is regarded as the first female chemist she produced passion and developed chemical process is still in use today such as this to mention she left a little over three thousand years ago. about fourteen hundred years later high panthea of alexandria was the first woman to lecture in astronomy and mathematics but this was an outrage to some clerics and she was later a matter of. history books tell

a story of her killing but not of his scientific achievements. many women pursued the sciences in the centuries the followers in seven hundred eighty six the german astronomer collingham was the first woman to discover a comet she was considered the first female and her profession but an untold number of female scientists were hardly acknowledged until late in the nineteenth century . are now we're here in the twenty first century with me in the studio is berg vinick. she is president of brandenburg university of applied sciences. it's good to have you on the show you were telling me you studied mechanical engineering back in the late seventy's early eighty's right here in berlin. were you the only woman in your class well that's the first stereotype because we have heard women mention yes century ago already even in germany and in the united states. but there were a few we were

a few there were about eight hundred first year students. for women for women in eight hundred so how did the other than what the seven hundred ninety six men how did they treat you i mean that were you treated as an equal. i was treated as something special curious so i was always asked why did you choose the study course and i've made up a poem because i was a fed up to be always asked and the made my may students fellow students were not asked that way so it's not good for self-confidence but what do you what were they trying to deceive with these questions the message that you should be at home not at home but study something more typical for women and why do you why do you think that's the case. what what has to be done to change that stereotype

if i knew that whatever god might or from some organization i'm sure that. i think we need to role model. terms like hidden figures. that's something that i think was very useful to so in that little act of women there was the women from nasa who helped calculate the orbit for the first moon landing exactly right that was a very good as a role model to young girls because it was interesting. it was a very it was a very good. what are you doing at brandenburg university to improve the situation there for female students. we try to attract lofty med students actually we're starting evening. so we have a lot of. office for boys and girls together because we think it is best to treat them together at that age you know betty to increase interest in science and

technology we think it's important to increase the number of people. who study this especially girl it's because at the moment we are in an area of big technology technology changes and i think it's important that women and men together. what sold out diversity and have. changed the future yeah you're the future here were you you're you know you're the living example of the changing of the future and we've said you can begin tonight to share your story with us thank you. for the berlin international film festival is in full swing indeed that we use my use waiter she is prowling the red carpet for as she gets the good assignments this monday night good evening to you via so what's been going on there today well just

a few hours ago we saw none other than christian bale himself the batman prowling the red carpet as well conversing with fans signing autographs mugging for the cameras really the big get one of the biggest stars at least of the belly neither has this year and he is here promoting the film advice which is premiering making i believe at least is german from here if not it's european from your hair the ballymaloe and it's a film about a former vice president dick cheney who was a really shadowy behind the scenes figure in american politics for many many years someone that maybe the rest of the world isn't as really are with but as americans at least i definitely definitely remember who dick cheney was. hard to forget you know i sold the movie when i was in the us in december you've seen volumes as well so i'm curious what did you think of the movie. well i learned a lot if if there's anything to be said for that well one thing that the filmmakers said during their press conference was you know there's so little actual

information out there about dick cheney because the real life dick cheney tried to keep himself kind of removed from the fray kept his fingerprints off as much stuff as possible so they had to do so much research and actually hired journalists to go interview people in his life in order to make this film and what has resulted is a really. fun in a way i hate to say it given the this man's political legacy right now but a fun interesting really creative film about how this man rose to power in one of the most unlikely ways you and i will remember not only was he seen as kind of a behind the scenes figure but in the bush cheney presidency in the early two thousand he was thought of as sort of the smart man of the duo that kind of or behind the throne in this room really leans into that showing exactly what he might have done to kind of undermine the president yeah it's a very interesting story and a lot of commentators have said that it reminds us of what exactly happened during

the bush administration because many feel like we've had the to do those years now that we're in the trump era you know what have you seen today. well i had a rather rude awakening this morning when the early morning film was a film called ghost town which featured several jump scares that i was not appreciate of at eight thirty but nonetheless it was a very delicate intelligent beautiful movie about this small have a quiet town really in the middle of nowhere in canada and touching on themes of fear of the outsiders you know phobia and just what it feels like to be kind of losing your identity these small rural towns that are all kind of just drifting away yeah it looks like i mean you know i haven't seen it but it looks like blair witch project in the winter with the whites on. my it's where it's a similar element. myers waited at the berlin wall of the berlin film festival for

us tonight maya thank you. or coming up next close up looking at france's yellow vests movement and over again you can get all the latest news on our web site i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news followed by the day i hope to see you the.

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