also coming up twitter suspend the account of a far right german lawmaker over an anti muslim tweet the reprimand comes as germany begins enforcing tougher laws concerning hate speech on social media. and it could be make or break for german chancellor angela merkel we look at what is in store for her and twenty eight team as she tries to form a new government. plus saudi arabia prepares for a year of major changes as it introduces reforms among them women will finally be able to get behind the wheel but does lifting the ban on driving go too far enough . and legal marijuana hits the shelves in california recreational users can now buy the drug without fear of arrest in america s most populous state. of meddling in the country. and from our i am joined now by mehdi most any and editor at t w is farsi language department welcome to you there are fears of a greater crackdown there in iran president hassan rouhani has apparently promised to deal with those who break the law who
begins enforcing tougher laws concerning hateful postings on social media also coming up. the death toll rises in iran as it faces its most violent unrest in years the country s supreme leader accuses the country s enemies of storing unrest . plus saudi arabia prepares for a year of changes as it introduces major reforms among them women will finally be allowed to get behind the wheel but is lifting the ban on driving go far enough. and it s good to have you with us a member of germany s parliament and leading figure in the far right alternative for germany party could face charges of illegal hate speech for her angry tweet on new year s eve be. criticized police and the city of cologne for publishing a new year s greeting in arabic she said they were trying to appease quote barbaric gang raping muslim hordes of men the law makers tweet came as a new german law aimed at cracking down on online hate speech came into full effect according to the new law social media companies m
it is in it s a fast also on the program germany s new hate speech laws put to the test as twitter suspends the accounts of a far right lawmaker of a muslim tweet. on saudi arabia prepares for a year of changes as it introduces major reforms amongst them women finally being allowed to get behind the wheel but does lifting the ban on women driving go far enough. i m phil gayle welcome to the program we start in iran where the government protests are sweeping the country at least twenty one people have been killed and hundreds arrested the country s supreme leader has blamed foreign meddling security forces struggle to contend the boldest challenge to iran s clerical leadership in nearly a decade but after six days of demonstrations protests to show no sign of backing down. the violent unrest which is rock to run for nearly a week appears if anything to be escalating state television says six people were killed as protesters stormed this police station in the central province o
a week of protests around the country iran s supreme leader accuses enemies of the nation of meddling in its affairs also coming up. with just over a month to go until the winter olympics south korea offers to hold talks with the north to discuss letting pyongyang s athletes participate in the games. and germany s new hate speech law is put to the test as twitter suspends the account of a far right lawmaker over her anti muslim tweet. plus saudi arabia prepares for a year of changes as it introduces major reforms among them women will finally be permitted to get behind the wheel but does lifting the ban on driving go far enough . and welcome to the program we start in iran. antigovernment protests are sweeping the country at least twenty one people have been killed and hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested the country s supreme leader has blamed foreign meddling as security forces struggle to contain the boldest challenge to iran s clerical leadership in almost a decad
hard to say where they got stuck since no information at all gets out of the talks during this night so we can only believe that they re still struggling with the same topics that they struck a while ago we heard that taxation policy and refugee policy are the major obstacles where they re still discussing and money the money question the new government in germany has a lot of money that they can spend on top that s forty five billion euros but that s apparently not enough there are projects on the table that cost some one hundred billion euros so everyone has to give up on some of these projects and that s certainly nothing easy and then the social democrats they definitely need a success in the field of social policy and everything that s available or that it s thinkable there is very costly whether it would be a reform of the health care system or higher pensions all these things that the social democrats would love to offer to their voters is controversial and expensive .