mosque in country after it a shiite cleric. president of turkey a representative for the sunni morsel it was probably the most important one and president which in discussing the ways to resolve this syrian crisis isn't it a success and on the other hand in warsaw you know the poor media was so proud we're like the madrid conference in the wire you know that this is what i read. that you know let me remind our border brothers in one thousand nine hundred one people talked about peace in the middle east they were not talking about the ways to attack iran so with paul said thoughts like that you know where they support at the border on now when they support. and they have say they have good relations with israel i want to tell them again and again polish brothers don't delude you wet yourself you will get they have a habit of always the right of our city to pick the wrong side here and stay with syria here we we have no we can go back about a year ago where we have. alleged because we have always said alleged on this program even

for the government of the shiites never from the coffee and supporters it is to play out thanks forty years after the islamic revolution they want to show that they can build mobilize for model i don't remember that the government forces them to fight oppression the things that are troubling the country's economy so in a symbolic march today civil servants schoolchildren grandparents walk from the center of the capital to run on to revolution square and then to walk they don't ask. that's freedom square the kind of many demonstrations back then and i. and even with the weather cold and rain yesterday there are thousands of people out in the seas. and the clerics in the country hold the real power what about the ordinary people once again we have seen some protests in the past all the people in iraq as enthusiastic about this anniversary as their government and the clerics. don't want anybody not all of them of course republican lydon like to side mainly want to have a few supporters the final four radians excess of the present distributed combination and that's the people out here in

circumstances and the rebirth in iran's most notorious prison for political dissidents when a hardline shiite cleric ayatollah khomeini proclaimed the islamic republic of iran in one nine hundred seventy nine it was the start of a theocracy that brutally persecuted its critics and opponents to which saudis parents belonged in her film she tries to get her parents to talk about their time in prison. to home where you are and i was going. through a portion. from. the first. round as. her mother finds the topic much more difficult to talk about. i even showed her a trailer i had made and hope that it would open up a conversation and we would finally talk and cry a little and everything would be said and in fact she was very moved but eventually the conversation did not come up. and most of my i'm sorry's documentary movingly depicts her need to understand her family's history but it ends with her understanding how difficult it is for her parents to revisit that traumatizing past this is handguns and. yes i'm very glad to be joined here by actress and director of i am sorry rector of born a fiend

over a million and half shiites. a million and a half sunni.ians. and now, by some estimates, as many as two million syrians all living and, somehow, getting along, kind of, in a country the size of connecticut. but along its borders the country has what you might call "serious neighbor issues." isis, in syria, threatening to expand its so-called caliphate into lebanon. >> archival: isis, in many ways, is something we've never really seen before, a really large, well-organized, well-equipped terrorist army. >> archival: lebanon's been absorbing refugees for nearly two years now. the country simply can't take anymore. >> archival: a quarter of lebanon's population is now syrian. that is the equivalent of the us taking in eighty-three million syrians. >> archival: this could be spiraling, and, as you said, the real fear is the violence across the border in syria's civil war now spilling over into an already fragile neighbor, lebanon. ♪ >> archival: beirut struggles to put a lid on the simmering sectarian tensions. ♪ >> archival: aftermath of that

factions worked out a compromise allowing the representation of sunni lawmakers backed by the powerful shiite group hezbollah cameroon's opposition leader has been charged with insurrection and inciting violence morris kanto has led a regular protest against longtime president paul b s since losing an election in october which government opponents say was fraudulent at least ten people have died in the us from a once in a generation cold snap it's left thousands of people without power and many more travelers stranded in some parts of the midwest the northeast temperatures plunge to minus thirty degrees celsius those are the headlines now back to witness. yeah. at the scene of well anything in the. past i mean the first i mean. i don't mind there's there's a long is it a mostly how it. is that you know you want to hear. something on. this or you know the new key is important that we're going to. get out of whatever it was we did not include any of it much more you think but on the books i know but he's come you know much about me but at a commencement like you know i need is coming is all goi

the shiite cleric houmaii.ith the public disapproval at a fever pitch, the shah lefty ron for egypt. on february the first of 1979, houmani returned to iran, welcomed by a crowd of millions. it was a turning point in the country's history. just two months later, following a referendum, he at the clamp -- declared the islamic public of iran. it change from a democracy to an autocracy. student revolutionaries took city to amerian's test wanted to american -- 22 americans hostage in toronto. it ended diplomatic ties between the two countries, setting the stage for a broader countryry -- coconflict in the middle east in which i ron continues to play a dominant role. 40 years after the islamic revolution, khomeni remains a hero for many. for others, the legacy has been repression, censorship and stagnation. brent: my first rest -- my first guest grew up under the shah and was targeted by the secret police after the revolution, he was sent to prison for daring to champion freedom of thought and speech. he spent most

the plot of the film what did i see but the head when i saw the shiite identity of a lot of the video i have had i didn't go inside that's like me a lot of other evidence you. know i've gotta sniff it out i never had my broken bottle and i seven of the want to know how did i was a little nervous. or what not to live your head out of heaven she was i leaned over sick of the man of the well god bless him said what i said but honest of she with a wide what on this since you have no clue why don't have a side issue that you know if you've never had what i'd want to be loving always glad i got on the console and there you live. god you know what i'd live in and if you've been to. a guided id be it if you go it was warrior. who was going. they had a very little article we're. going to have to have when our. house will have our own will for what. you know. and what that article are. up to and don't hide there's area of champaign is now recovering thanks to the reflooding following the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three. large areas of the marsh and and three ancient cities have

depictinged banners ayatollah khamenei, the shiite cleric who led the revolution.s braved the bad weather to shout "death to israel" and "death to america." bahrainio footballer's back t australia after being detained in thailand on his honeymoon. he has been living in australia since 2014 when he was granted asylum. he is expected to arrive in melbourne in the next few hours. russia is consering briefly disconnecting from the global internet to test cyber defenses. the test will mean data passing between russian citizens and organizations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally. material which goes to russian pt. addresses would go through through government-controlled routing points. police apologized after this video caused a huge storm online. it shows a snake being draped across a screaming handcuffed man to get him to confess to being a mobile phone the. dthe local police chicribed what happened as unprofessional but said that the snake was tame and not venomous. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to c program, a q's sti

amid the my him one opposition figure emerged as a leader from his exile in front's hardline shiite cleric ayatollah khomeini. with public disapproval at a fever pitch the shah left iran for egypt. then on february first nine hundred seventy nine for many returned to iran welcome to by a crowd of millions. it was a turning point in the country's history just two months later following a referendum many had proclaimed the islamic republic of iran. in just one year the country had transformed from a constitutional monarchy to a theocracy. but that was not the end of the instability and turmoil later that he a student revolutionaries took fifty two americans hostage inside the u.s. embassy in tehran. the ensuring crisis ended diplomatic ties between the two countries sitting stage for a broader conflict in the middle east in which iran continues to play a dominant role. forty years after the islamic revolution ayatollah khamenei remains a hero for many are. any chance. as the revolution's legacy has been repression censorship and stagnation. oh my first guest grew up in iran under the shah an

for the shiites how a. model for the for the whole fuck around with respect to for jim and we are hoping that our fairly in the course. of the. president's triumph from this is a complete victory over islamic state in syria but next week as well powers gather in washington to talk counter terror tactics. also the headlines today russia in the united states ramp up their ballistic missile testing following the suspension of the cold war era control treaty and. i believe it now but i have never seen you in the time i was. to do my job here it's out of the patient seems to be where you fit in brussels as toppy officials tell the progress of counterparts in the u.k. that there's a special place waiting for them in hell. may day or moscow good day to them thanks for choosing us for your news update i'm kevin i was here at the art international news center this hour in the headlines in more detail first the u.s. president has said that the final pockets of islamic state held territory in syria will be recaptured

says he's innnnocet and d that he's been targetd for a shiite muslim faith and for his criticism of bahrain human rights record. the gulf arab nation is majority shia but ruled by a sunni minority which has a reputation for harsh repression since the country's failed arab spring uprising in. twenty eleven the tie attorney general's office says court proceedings on our rabies extradition are likely to take months to conclude. today is that world cancer day and the union for international cancer control says that nine point six million people die every year from the disease that's more than hiv aids malaria and tuberculosis combined. but it also says that more than a third of those cases can be prevented another third can be cute if detected. early enough and treated promptptly. well here in front of people suffering from bladder cancer a findingng thahat ty can'n't getet access to thte drugs they need to because of a glitch in the healthcare system catherine if it has the story. misdiagnosed by a specialist by the time so you live feps bladder cancer was identified. it was to advance to be t

now a sadistic mind full of hate and particularly full of hate jews and shiite muslims that's how french journalist described t the n on t trial for killing f for people at the jewish museum in brussels. in twenty fourteen testifying at trial nickel and a and d. d. a false wall said that many diminish was without a doubt the man who held them hostage and tortured them in syria. ten months and has the story. high profile brussels s terr trial. two french journalists have identified the main suspect as one of their captors and torortures when they y were held hostae in syria from 200-013-22000. fourteen foreman morning we have formally recognize missing emotional so we have no doubts about his identity because unfortunately we spent seveveral months in hs clutches. in not the nicest of conditions. the second thing we want to say is that your your captivity. he was alreadydy bursting wh anti semitism because it has a time was a definitely she idolized mohammed merah. a terrorist to kill jewish school children in france i. two thousand twelve fofor m- for him his s dream was to killll jewish

the biggest political celebration of the is this time of republic for the government and also the shiite clerics that run this country and it's a display of strength for two years after these democratic leaders and they want to so that they can still mobilize the masses and that's the spite of the resistance of government protests and also in spite of the pressure you have thanked them that are crippling the country's economy and so civil servants our kids day school kids that were forced into their own marching from the center of tehran to one that is where the kind of many demonstrations back in ninety nine so the clerics are trying to rally support what does the people of iran really make of all this so it really isn't through c.s. think about this anniversary of the government as. well most people out here today obvious importance of the revolution there openly displaying their admiration for the told local media and also in the sense of how many to carry pictures with him or them do you think that's people with flecks influence in the iranian college and the people who don't support

primarily a lot of this that is concerned about what's described as the so-called the shiite crescent which would extend from iran all the way to iraq through syria lebanon and maybe even gadget and this is seen as threatening israel which is a major issue for this administration and for the u.s. government so that is one of the factors behind this issue but in addition to that there is also concern that iran might pose a threat to some of the u. us allies in the gulf and that's another issue so the united states also and the president from p.s. today repeated iran is a major sponsor. of terrorism in the world today so that's another factor but this is perhaps it's also used to how justify. some of these policies. we really appreciate your time and your take this hour edmund ghareeb middle east affairs expert and lecturer at washington d.c.'s american university. the head of the e.u. council has put the cats among the pigeons by saying there is quote a special place in hell for people who promoted brakes and without a plan our europe correspondent peter oliver earlier broke down the r

( laughter ) well, sir, you have the sunnis, and you have the shiites, this conflict goes back thousandsars -- >> now i get it -- ( sing songing ) ( applause ) >> trevor: honestly, it didn't even sound like trump was singing. sounded like he was trying to play his own speech on guitar hero. >> and we will possibly get a bad ruling. ♪ note ). >> then another bad ruling, and end up in the supreme court and hopefully get a fair shake, and we'll win in the superior courts just like the ban, they sued us in the 9th circuit, and we lost, and then we lost in the appellate division, and then we went to the supreme court, and we won! >> trevor: you rock! now, as you would expect, prominent democrats are calling trump's emergency declaration an unconstitutional power grab. because only congress should decide how to appropriate money. why trump now thinks executive action is the way to go, back in the day, he had a very different opinion. >> i'll make great deals and we'll get 'em done, and we don't have to use executive orders and all the stuff obama's using, we're not going to be opening our bord

for the shiites. from my last farthing live in africa will fuck around with mr hates it for jim and lawyer for hope that our family in the courts. if the money. the. president from from the city is a complete victory over islamic state in syria but next week as well pows gather in washington to talk counter terror tactics also the headlines today russia and united states ramp up their ballistic missile testing fully.

rival factions worked out a compromise on representation of sunni lawmakers backed by the powerful shiite group has. it was in egypt a word that is a plot to silence them after a lawyer filed a complaint against for human rights groups who met french president manuel micro-loan during his visit to egypt earlier this week the complaint accuses the groups of offering the egyptian state and harming the country's interests and sense they discussed death sentences and prison conditions with micro explained says they also talked about the proposed constitutional changes a minimum fee is there in the middle east and north africa to ition of human rights watch the sense the number of cases against activists are increasing under president sisi we have seen these kinds of companies in style by lawyers who are very hyper nationalist and pro-government and egyptian law unfortunately permits this kind of lawsuits filled by trials by lawyers who have nothing at stake at actually but they just lie these. over productivity jones actually laughable of harming national security and spreading false news and

the prime minister cannot complete his cabinet because the sunni shiite and kurdish politicians are all wrangling with each other. not being able to pass a crucial spending bills and the prime ministers under pressure from the politicians and discontented iraq who are protesting about bad services the other naki is expected to serve as prime minister for four years but after months of political deadlock iraqis say they want results now rob matheson i'll just back down. of the funeral of an activist who sought justice for victims of war time sexual slavery is being held in south korea kim bach dong who died on monday was one of the thousands of so-called comfort women forced into brothels run by the japanese military join a second world war part of kim's funeral procession is taking place in front of the japanese embassy in seoul rama pride is outside that embassy he joins us from there now so rob why has the his this death attracted so much interest in south korea. that's right has and this is been a highly charged ceremony at times very emotional the procession going through the street

radical standoff between the region's two systems of power and the sunni saudi monarchy against the shiite islamic republic of iran. i think many people including many american many americans and many europeans underestimated the degree to which syria was a red line for iran and that iran was willing to really take risks and put the resources in to back assad assad. i think the same is true for russia. neither iran nor russia wanted to accept. the notion of regime change that people in the middle east could ride out rise up and get rid of their leader we know russia has a real allergic reaction to that and iran. in september two thousand and fifteen russia began large scale intervention on the iranian side to defend bashar assad. but meanwhile another protagonist appeared in the middle eastern theater. on june the twelfth two thousand and fourteen islamic state forces took control of iraq's second city mosul a few days later in syria fell into jihad is towns and became the capital of the self-styled islamic caliphate. protests around the advances made by ass and extremist sunni terrorist m

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the promise of what if i should i said when i saw the shiite identity of a lot of citizens in white i'm not and i didn't go outside that's like me out of out of the. i've got a sniff it out i never had a face my broken bottle and i seven have no want to not only the litter box. or what not to love you head out of heaven she was and over sick of the man of the . god of those times and when i say god honest of she will hide what on this since you hide the loons i don't have a side issue that i know of you never had a lot more energy level and glad i got on the town hall in the. garden of your when i lived in any given to. a guided id to refuse to go to war where you know who was going. i had a very little article we're. going to have to have no one. else will have an l.l. will for one. you know. love is the law. and while the other article i. don't hide there's area of champaign is now recovering thanks to the reflooding following the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three. large areas of the martian and and three ancient cities have now been included in unesco's list of world h

that during this reconstruction that all groups and if i say all groups i mean all groups sunni's shiites kurds the kurds who fought side by side with us so courageously against. at the front lines and they faced heavy losses that all of these groups including the use even use can partake equally in the reconstruction of this country this is the only way to win peace together. another example of the fact that joining forces makes us stronger is the i.n.f. treaty. of course it was important that nato condemned the russian breach of the treaty it was right that we need to do everything in our power to preserve the substance of the treaty. it is the right thing to do to make it clear that we must respond to the increased risk posed by russian arms especially to us in europe . and it is the right thing to do. to conduct an analysis to find a smart mix of measures. to take in the event russia does not really and and one thing is sure as well the old tit for tat strategy of the one nine hundred eighty s. is not going to help us any further here and it is also certain that arms control initiativ

note, thestorical idea is bubbling in the shiite blood system. you can see how this idea was developing. the book has a lot of material about what is wrong with iranian society. and that resonated, that part resonated would the readers and given this perception that he was different from the run-of-the-mill hopervative cleric, the was wishful thinking that this was just a theoretical discussion. that it had no bearing on the actual development of iran. engage innstantly theoretical discussions which are devising rules that are not meant to be implemented in the real world. this was a theoretical discussion. it is not relevant to the actual political life of the country. but think that is where people were rationalizing it. in the interior ministry, there was awareness of the book and its contents. >> thanks. thank you very much for this really very interesting historical discussion, which is so rare as was read before. my question originally was about how people understood khomeini and partly because of the book. the book was there for a very lon

worked out a compromise that would allow the representation of sunni lawmakers backed by the powerful shiite group hezbollah and the heavy air we are facing financial and economic challenges as well as social and administrative ones other than the challenges that we know of in the region and the situation on our border and the israeli threats this means that the cooperation between the ministerial team is a must to be up for the challenges and for the government to succeed cameroon's opposition leader has been launched with has been charged with insurrection inciting violence more discounter as had has led regular protests against longtime president since losing an election in october which government opponents say was fraudulent if found guilty can turn could face life in prison. at least ten people have died in the u.s. from a once in a generation cold snap it has left thousands of people without power and many more travelers stranded in some parts of the midwest and northeast temperatures plunge to minus thirty degrees celsius those are the headlines witnesses next. i've asked. not so muc

security forces repeatedly battle with drug smugglers and sunni fighters in this in predominantly shiite iran iranian state media are blaming an al-qaeda linked sunni group for the attack some twenty others were wounded and speak and speak now to most stuff. who is the editor in chief of the farce news agency joins us now from tehran thanks very much for being with us so a tell us what you know about what happened here. hello. as a matter of fact some forty i.r.g.c. members were on board the bus traveling between the southeast and city of the provincial capital of zahid that's. just on province in southeastern iran when a truck loaded with explosives detonated it's not clear if this is going to suicide attack or the truck was a standing by on the side of the road and then when the bus was passing by they have detonated it through removed controlled explosion some to any g.c. members have been martyred in this incident two or any others have been wounded. the latest reports say that some two a new one civilians have also been killed in this attack the people who were in the saying area an

nuclear you can take yourself down one path but i think the broader view of the region that the sunni shiite and conflict will go on and continue to shape the region and effect friends and allies that we have there. >> thank you. in addition to the regional threat iran poses i would just add as the annual worldwide threat assessment they have repeatedly pointed out is that iran continues to make gains on its ballistic missile program. it mentions the possibility of a third ground mate base missile defense site here in the u.s. these things take time. i feel like we have been playing catch-up on north korea and that we are about to make the same mistake. >> next question. >> thank you for a great report gentlemen. the commission is something we pay a lot of attention to across the river. there is an elephant in the room and it is called the national debt. we are running $2 trillion deficits and you are recommending 3% up to 5% growth which is a relatively high level even if it doesn't match the percentages of gdp we had during the cold war. should the next president stand up on inauguration d

. >> again, just on a historical note, the idea is actually bubbling in the shiite blood system. >> it predates khomeini. >> it goes back to the dynasty. you can see how this idea was developing. it's not properly belonging to khomeini. >> the book has a lot of material about what's wrong with iranian society. and that resonated, that part resonated with the readers, and given this perception that he was different from the run of the mill conservative clerics, the hope was -- again, wishful thinking -- that this was just a theoretical discussion, that it had no bearing on the actual developments in iran because clerics constantly engage in theoretical discussions, which are devising rules that are not meant to be implemented in the real world. so that was a perception. this is a theoretical discussion. it's not relevant to the actual political life of the country. that's how people, i think, were rationalizing it. >> but in the system, in the shah system, in the interior ministry, there was awareness of the book and its content and inflammatory language. >> yeah, i'm pretty sure. >> pl

the prime minister cannot complete his cabinet because the sunni shiite and kurdish politicians are all wrangling with each other. not being able to pass a spending bills and the prime ministers under pressure from the politicians and discontented in iraq as well put testing about bad services. naki is expected to sabotage prime minister for four years but after months of political deadlock iraqis say they want results no love matches. back to. the u.s. border agents say they've made a record of fence will bust in the mexico on the mexican border customs officers seasonal the one hundred kilograms of the synthetic drug rob reynolds has but u.s. customs and border patrol agents in arizona announced their biggest ever seizure of fence until one hundred fourteen kilos of the powerful drug was discovered in a large truck carrying produce from mexico on saturday so this truck was carrying ten packages of fentanyl pills it was carrying about one hundred packages of fentanyl and i believe three hundred ninety five or three hundred. over three hundred packages. of methamphetamines officials say

in iraq and it is clearly some of the shiites some of the most important shiite leaders are back like i two losses tony do not favor iran's into the interference in the domestic affairs there are clear indications that there is some tension the regime has the support of hezbollah but it is because hezbollah has been receiving the largess of the iranian regime. internationally i think their only. remained russia who supports iran and is interested in increasing its foot all the iran then china i think is waiting to see how the situation will unfold and whether they will have to commit and rescue the regime financially other than the regime i think is fairly isolated internationally and even more importantly i think they're isolated domestically that's why they went out of their way to make this they appear like a day of national consensus for the regime but i think they know and the people of iran know best. malani from stanford university thank you for joining us on al-jazeera a refugee football is heading home to australia after his native bahrain dropped its request to extradite him

the presence in iraq is somewhat permissible, they built shiite militias, take isis down but gave themaders and every single opportunity they try to undermine the united states' position in iraq and the middle east. certainly that air base that we have there also counterterrorism guys operate that's well known, clearly, it's a place that's a treasure for us no terms of resources and capability. i think the president's issue is could they impact, use the base to impact on things in syria, the answer to that, of course, is yes, we could operate out of that and conduct some operations in syria but i think it's the daily presence assisting the local fighters and making certain that we can still deliver air power as i mentioned before is going to be decisive in making certain that isis does not reemerge and isis doesn't take over syria. maria: before you go, your reaction on this administration's stance on venezuela? >> i think they are right on the mark. the president has made up his mind to facilitate a regime change, to do that peacefully and certainly to support the new government that

researchers also finding saudis typically join isis to fight iranian backed shiite groups not for hatredn world. pete: oh, okay. as long as their intentions are clear. ed: virginia's lieutenant governor faces second charge of sexual assault: admitting to wearing blackface. jedediah: what would the reaction be if these were republican scandals? pete: host of reality check with david webb on fox nation radio talk show host and fox news contributor david webb. jedediah: thanks for being here. pete: if these two gentlemen were republicans instead of democrats. jedediah: three, actually. pete: what would be happening? >> whoever said it earlier, they would be camped out on the front of their lawns, there would be media trucks everywhere. the democrats set an impossible standard. that's the hypocrisy here. whether it's sexual assault allegations or blackface is automatically assumed to be racism. they have set the standard. and now they are caught in their own standard. the democrats macvelian way i admire them they will stick by and ignore the calls against their hypocrisy. they don't believe

president donald trump says he wants some american troops to remain in iraq the shiite led coalition there wants all u.s. forces to leave the country but there is debate among sunni and kurdish politicians who say the iraqi army cannot manage the threat from my soul alone charles trafford has more. fighters with the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces attacked eisel targets in the syrian village of the last remaining eisel controlled territory close to the border with iraq in two thousand and fifteen or eisel controlled around that ninety thousand square kilometers of turd trip across syria and iraq. after more than two years of fighting involving a u.s. led a multinational coalition the territorial battle against eisel is all but one. so what happens to the approximately six thousand u.s. troops still in iraq u.s. presidents donald trump seen here visiting american soldiers at the assad air base in december says he wants some troops to remain in iraq to as he puts it keep an eye on neighboring iran the comment has angered many of iraq's shia politicians pricilla cazaly is leader of