elizabeth palmer is in teheran. >> reporter: today's celebrations featured the inevitable flag burning and of course chants of death to america. it's part of a ritual salute to a revolution that four decades on still has leaders. on stage, the president spoke about the revolution's achievements and boasted that iran would continue to expand it's military power. that could provoke even harsher american sanctions. the trump administration says u.s. sanctions are going to weaken the iranian regime. well, so far, the regime looks just fine, but the iranian people are having a very rough time. he came to the parade for the free food. >> my family is poor, myself. nobody has anything on their table. >> mr. trump and the administration say they're trying to target the iranian -- >> [ bleep ]. >> he and millions more are furious with the u.s. but they're equally furious with their own government. >> financial crutches everywhere, economic corruption. there's lots of thieves among them who just steal millions of dollars. >> underlying all of this anniversary hoopla is fatigue and the growing di

to small acts of defiance as a woman in teheran is confronted for not covering her head but passing men.

they last met in teheran in september the presidents of russia iran and turkey are partners in the so-called asked on a process on syria since then the us announced plans to withdraw its troops from the north east a corner of syria which is under the control of the kurdish armed groups the white p.g. turkey wants to fill the void and create what it calls a safe zone in syria along its borders iran however shares russia's position allies of the syrian government are referring to the one nine hundred ninety eight at an agreement between syria and turkey the best way. to defend syrian turkish borders. legitimate concerns of turkish neighbors about terrorist attacks from syrian territory to make sure that the syrian government has control of its territory we have done agreement and we can see how best we can use that agreement the kremlin has been encouraging talks between syria and the wife for a peaceful handover but it is also trying to push for direct contact between syria and turkey and that is where the ad in a dream and comes in that agreement and that syrian government support for the p.

and why did this hearing freeze to the surprise visit that syrian president bashar assad paid to teheran yesterday he met to with iranian supreme leader ayatollah khamenei and president has sent rowhani but none of those photos job was very was seen many had said that probably he had been a clue that later after the news of his resignation on instagram was published some more some from both sides i mean from their reformist. ok we're having a difficult time with that uplink it looks like we lost it we'll see if we get to get it back later in this program that was awesome like in joining us from tehran about the resignation the unexpected resignation of the iranian foreign minister this is deja vu news live from berlin still to come on the show. allegations of a vote tampering in nigeria. that after violence over the weekend was the latest from lycos. well north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in vietnam ahead of his second summit with u.s. president donald trump kim stepped off his personal armored train in the border town of the dying that after traveling for more than two days th

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 a proof of life physio images of a week musician child in china and some of the observer some still believe he has died in custody. to talk about a paid job the look of a spectacular pakistani truck that's become a global finance. their astrology well how far those stories are home to more in just a moment on the all the back of the top off the top of the for. the booth. to be. ready for something new being news asia bringing you stories from across the region stories that. join us for the new show news asia. it's time for berlin sixty nine film festival. we give you the lowdown on all the stars movies and gossip. twenty nineteen every day on the. prairie to me. not everyone who loves books has to go insane. w. literature list hundreds judgment must treat. what's coming up for the book display you know how phlegm teaches hol

was just a gentle qassam so they money and i that time that you had no idea that demand was even in teheran so he is has a news agency in iran that he has no credibility international this point because of what happened today so. just playing devil's advocate for a bit there are those who believe that he is the man responsible or had a big part in getting an international coalition to work with the people of iran there are a lot of moderates in the country who believe that he was advancing more cooperative iranian agenda do you see that that is true in any way i mean again at this but i said was it wasn't yet dedrick criticism of him but what i said he doesn't get did not understand. the system that he walked for he taught what he is doing international. using dead c.p.u. and dead after an. f.d.a. and so on that he's doing the right thing for a system that without appreciate the fact is that the system is thinking completely different think differently and that what he was thinking was not part of the thinking the broader and more strategic thinking of the of the system so again that's one

united states withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement last year and re imposed sanctions on iran teheran has dismissed the european union's criticism of its missile development program you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera news hour fear in twenty five minutes time right now the inside story. pressure is growing on the venezuelan president nicolas maduro but can the international community convince him to resign and how much difference with a new round of sanctions make to an economy that was already near collapse before this crisis began this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program my name is peter dhabi internationally isolated and with the economy near collapse pressure has been growing on the venezuelan president nicolas maduro to step down the list of countries recognizing the national assembly leader one go ido as the interim president is growing but the majority government at least for now shows little sign of bowing to the pressure in europe why this week a group of e.u. and latin american nations met in an effort to find a way out of the crisis will bring

secretary of state's called for tougher sanctions against iran on thursday claiming that teheran is continuing to develop its been a stake myself capabilities of washington's already imposed a swindling set of financial penalties on terror and that was in november after it pulled out of the landmark iran nuclear deal with the us officials becoming increasingly hostile towards the brown we've been speaking exclusively to its foreign minister javad zarif he explained how his government plans to deal with the increasing pressure. put on. there was a need for a special mechanism to get round us sanctions or neutralize the negative effect of our european partners believe that they would be able to announce the creation of such mechanism within a few months however this issue required much more time than expected perhaps the reason for the belated announcement was us pressure or perhaps the europeans themselves delayed the solution of this issue. will be unfair on the little boy it was the united states that withdrew from the nuclear agreement and the europeans failed to implement it the purpose of

the height of violent protests against his reign across on the same bus ravi has this update from teheran we're here at the shrine of ayatollah ruhollah khomeini the founding father of the islamic republic of iran if you end here or there are thousands of iranians coming together to commemorate forty years to the day since he returned from exile and brought to the slum it revolution with now forty years later decades later the ideals of the revolution that he brought continue to you'll always see here in iran and it continues to be a sort of a living thing from which iranian leaders across trying to for example rally support for foreign wars.

united states withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement last year and re imposed sanctions on iran teheran has dismissed the european union's criticism of its missile development program you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera news our fear in twenty five minutes time right now the inside story. pressure is growing on the venezuelan president. community convinced him to resign and how much difference will the new round of sanctions make to an economy that was already a collapse before this crisis began this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program my name is peter dhabi internationally isolated and with the economy near collapse pressure has been growing on the venezuelan president nicolas.

companies to do business with teheran using a european payment channel supporting u.s. penalties but the u.s. says it won't affect the economic pressure that it. and representatives of brazil's indigenous people are protesting against the new president's policies. taking over control of their ancestral lands. activists in egypt are worried there's a plot to silence them after a lawyer filed a complaint against for human rights groups who met the french president in his visit to egypt last week the complaint accuses the rights groups of offending the egyptian state and harming the interests of the country and says the group discussed death sentences prison conditions with mccrone the complaint also says groups discuss proposed constitutional changes with the french president and that includes extending presidential terms which would allow abdel fattah el-sisi to stay in power until twenty twenty six we have got. with us now researcher at the middle east north africa division of human rights watch he's on skype from berlin first of all is it unusual at all do you think fo

its aim to prevent teheran from building weapons the u.s.s you know has pulled out of that deal and is pressuring remaining countries to abandon it, as well. >>> opioid related deaths quadruples in 20 years and shifted to the eastern part of the u.s. washington, d.c. has seen the fastest increase where deaths have tripled every year since 2013 >>> and a winter storm dumped nearly three feet of snow in northern arizona breaking records in the area around flagstaff. schools and roads have been closed across that area. thousands of people are without power. >>> and japan's space agency has announced that the space probe successfully landed on an asteroid the craft left earth in december of 2014. it arrived at the asteroid last june it's expected to carry out two more landings to collect samples before returning to earth. that's the update at this hour >> bill, thank you so much. >>> 30 minutes to go until "power lunch" and joined by melissa. what's coming up >> very, very, very important meeting in washington. 2:30 president trump is meeting wi

they last met in teheran in september the presidents of russia iran and turkey are partners in the so-called asked on a process on syria since then the us announced plans to withdraw its troops from the north east a corner of syria which is under the control of the kurdish armed groups the white turkey wants to fill the void and create what it calls a safe zone in syria along its borders iran however shares russia's position allies of the syrian government are referring to the one nine hundred ninety eight at an agreement between syria and turkey the best way. to defend syrian turkish borders. legitimate concerns of turkish neighbors about terrorist attacks from syrian territory to make sure that the syrian government has control of its territory we have a framework they are gonna agreement and we can see how best we can use that agreement the kremlin has been encouraging talks between syria and the wife for a peaceful handover but it is also trying to push for direct contact between syria and turkey and that is where the ad in a dream and comes in that agreement and that syrian government s

iranian revolution that took place in nineteen seventy nine sir looking at live pictures right now from teheran and let's bring in our correspondent jabari who's covered iran and so it's a big day for iran. president's haasan rouhani speaking as he usually does on the anniversary what have you heard so far that stood out for you well the president is right now giving a history lesson about where iran was prior to the revolution and how the previous monarchies and dynasties actually divided iran they were irresponsible they were under the influence of western powers and easily manipulated and that is the reason there of aleutian took place and the main goal of khomeini ayatollah khomeini was to unite iran and its people and that's what the president is stressing that it's and so would he be speaking more at this point to a domestic audience obviously it's a big day for iran and iranians in themselves or is he sending a message to the international audience as well because what we've heard him say so far is that the enemy will not be able to reach its evil objectives yes he's certainly stressing

million a weenie in lives as well as hundreds of thousands of iraqis same bus travie has more now from teheraneets a lady was just a teenager when iraq declared war on iran in one nine hundred eighty he joined the army a just fourteen years old and spent five years as a front line soldier injured multiple times he would recover and had once more into the fray. but his war ended when a gas attack destroyed seventy percent of his lungs and impaired his vision. isn't going to care though the immediately after the revolution when our army wasn't well prepared we came under attack from iraq the islamic revolutionary guard corps was too busy with internal conflicts so as it happens in any other country people volunteered to defend their nation against the aggressors. it was a conflict that shattered the lives of millions of iranians iran and iraq are now the closest of allies but the war taught iranian leaders important lessons in national security that have influenced policy decisions ever since the post revolution government was shaky and caught off guard. forty years later military leaders want e