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this is g. w. do some live from the islamic republic of the wrong turns forty thousands marked the anniversary today on the streets but many have little to celebrate for decades after the moon came to power we consider unkept promises and the impact of u.s. sanctions also coming up a flight to freedom for soccer player hockey our. pilot of the work is released him after bahrain the country where he was born abandoned its extradition request
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and fewer than a third of researchers in science related fields worldwide are women on this international day of women in science we ask our gender stereotypes still getting in the way. it's good to have you with us iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the capital tehran for a rally addressed by president hassan rouhani he told the crowd that iran is determined to expand its military power and ballistic missile program and he said iran will ask no one for permission to use teresa is in tehran tonight.
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death to america death to israel and to have 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 crater to actually all monitors because i think you know in this region having a democratic country government. is a great things. 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
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and the world. we're here to slap america and israel in the face of the clearly. mr trump you can never defeat you see the trip illusion you have a chance to control it first a country ethics and keeping your promises on the nuclear deal with it kyra but now the islamic republic will be united to chemists military threats to the very day a little bit in his own little human should ahead of us yes or no reason. but not everyone out on the streets today feels comfortable telling us their thoughts about the end of their street. i cannot answer your question because i cannot tell the truth. i'm just here to take from serious now for the celebration of all. of the. most. people who said hello to you stayed at home today so they're not around but they do exist many people here i know that entirely happy with the
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current situation the country is in the ones with reform the cities are still waiting for the personal freedoms president rouhani has promised them and the ones i've heard much suffering from the u.s. sanctions that are contributing the country's economy but the support this what republic is 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 hotline syria and iran. 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 a unified country. separate our governments in this situation. come out of this situation i hope set by many because so far the islamic revolution
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has yet to fulfill its biggest promise better economic conditions for everyone here in your run. tonight in venezuela the opposition is planning a huge rally for tuesday on the self-proclaimed president one quite a says he will use the rally to send a message to the military the armed forces so far have stood by president nicolas maduro but your own says he is ready to defend the country against the united states. defying its nicolas maduro overseas military drills in venezuela's north the army his keep pillar of support presented missiles made by russia one of madieu rose most powerful allies and the weaponry was showcased on state t.v. he vowed to defend his troubled nation. well for us if we are pacifists as long as no one messes with us and does not threaten us trying to get out of it
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it's with out with your threats there are armed forces here and people to defend our honor and dignity is 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. we call in 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. we urgently need this help to enter venezuela where somebody who 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. where some of the other stories now that are
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making headlines around the world dairy farmers on the italian island of sardinia have vented their anger at falling revenues by poor noko onto unsuspecting motorists prices have dropped to sixty cents per liter compared to eighty five cents last year farmers say that is simply not enough to live on thailand's election panel has disqualified the king's sister from running for prime minister in the election in march this comes just three days after prince's tun his surprise nomination the commission said that members of the royal family should be above politics. oh the soccer player hakeem arrived he was detained in thailand is on his way home now to australia he was freed after bahrain the country where he was born. druids extradition request. claimed asylum in australia back in two thousand and fourteen saying that he feared torture and even death if he were
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to be sent back to bahrain his arrest in thailand during his honeymoon sparked an international outcry. justice lost for a ride be pictured here finally boarding a flight back to australia. the bahraini is heading to melbourne off to seventy days spent in a 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 who led a campaign to pressure the bahraini government. actually when encouraged to withdraw the extradition order that was always the. acceptable outcome and it actually is the best outcome on
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a rugby football reign on political grounds in two thousand and fourteen and was granted refugee status by australia his family feared extradition would result in his torture on possibly even death at the hands of bahrain's justice system now a rugby is finally on his way back to australia his ordeal behind bars in bangkok is over at last. when did you know that less than thirty percent of science researchers around the world are women according to unesco their participation in information and communications technology and natural sciences is particularly look now the agency believes that girls and women are inhibited from choosing jobs in science because of long standing bias or today is the international day of women and girls in science it was started four years ago to break down stereotypes and to help promote equal access well despite big efforts they continued to be excluded
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from participating fully in science even though women's involvement goes back to ancient time. the first woman whose name appears in the history of science is patterson. she practiced medicine and trying to move in one hundred midwives over four fascinating years ago. because i'm about to leonie and is regarded as the first female chemist she produced paphian and developed chemical processes still in use today such as distillation she lived a little over three thousand years ago. about fourteen hundred years later. of alexandria was the first woman to lecture in astronomy and mathematic. that this was an outrage to some parents and she was. history books tell a story of her killing but none of has scientific achievements. many women pursued
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the sciences in the centuries that followed in seventy six the german astronomy colony in household 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 here in the twenty first century with me in the studio is berg vinick. she is president of brandenburg university of sciences misogynic 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 well then century ago already even in germany and in the united states. but there were a few we were
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a few there were about eight hundred first year students and eight hundred for women for women and eighty eight hundred so how did the other what the seven hundred ninety six million 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 this study course and i've made up a poem because i was so fed up to be always asked and the made my may students fellow students were not that way so it's not good for self-confidence and 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 cage. what what has to be done to change that stereotype if i knew that whatever good mother from some
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organization i'm sure that. i think we need to role models. kids figures. that's something that might make was very useful just so in that little act of women there was the women from nasa who helped calculate the orbit for the first to learn new landing exactly right that was a very good firm as a role model to show 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 that for female students we we try to attract lofty med students actually we're starting even think you know got an h. so we have a lot of. of course for boys and girls together because we think it is best to treat them together at that age you know pretty sure increase interest in science
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and technology we think it's important to increase the number of people. who study this especially girls 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. and have. changed the future way to the future where you you know you the living example of just changing in the future and we've been seeing you coming in tonight to share your story with us thank you well the u.s. music industry has been celebrating the sixty first annual grammys in los angeles lady gaga was one of the big winners taking home three awards and song of the year went to childish gambino is this is america and the country singer kacey musgraves is one album of the year for golden work. there she has. a coming up forty years after the islamic revolution iran's place in
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