yes we all start in class won t be a plan to breach the law to try to excuse a proportion of church membership and keep on g.w. . claiming to be a and meet the audience. this is it every news alliance or girl in a government divided us voters delivered a split decision in the first nationwide verdict on the trump presidency democratic control of the house with their leader pledging to check the president s power to where the doubt democrats and republicans it s about restoring the constitution s checks and balances to the compliments. voters are also sending a record shattering number of women to congress but republicans increased their majority in the senate so what does this mixed message mean for the second half was trump s presidency also coming up. on the america s hand picks a successor officially enters the race to replace the chancellor as head of the c.d.u. party on a grid to come cousin bauer also known as a k.k.k. is one of three leading contenders for the top job but is support for america more likely to help or harm her chances of victory plus a best company god is known for his pioneering adventures like piloting the first solar powered flight around the world this was a view to will be with us in the studio to speak about his passion for greeting down trees. and relief for families in cameroon dozens of kidnapped. children have been freed by their captors we ll get the latest from our correspondent in west africa. with. i ve. a lover rock great to have you along with us the time has turned in the u.s. politics where voters turned out in record numbers to end the republican party s control of the u.s. federal government in the first nationwide vote since president donald trump s election two years ago democrats have taken back the house of representatives but it s not quite the blue wave that they had hoped for republicans have actually expanded their majority in the senate and defeated strong democratic challengers in some key state governor races all tump is due to give his reaction the very soon and we ll have full live coverage later this hour as and when it happens but first let s take a look at the numbers for you here s where things stand in the house of representatives two hundred eighty seats are needed to take control and as you can see here democrats have already surpassed that goal with some races still needing to be called and here s how the senate is looking at the later shading there represents the seats that were not up for election and on top of that the night s results republicans now at fifty one seats which means they have defended their majority there. well let s see who stays or voting was a characterized by high turnout in districts across the country it was billed as the most important midterm election in a generation where both sides democrats and republicans energized to cast ballots in support of their candidate. was it may not have been a blue wave but democrats have sent a message to washington was when nafta when in metropolitan and suburban america has left the party in control of the house of representatives jubilant democrat leaders said they will reign in the polarizing president. thanks a million tomorrow will be a new day in america i was. here it is feeling now the power to win was. is already in their chemical acts of republicans it s of their restoring the constitution s checks and balances to the companies i was. was but it didn t all go to democrats way from tennessee to texas republicans won increasing their control of the senate. one time presidential hopeful ted cruz was among those fending off challenges. to less taxes was the president held the results in a tweet calling them a tremendous success. then there was the changing face of u.s. politics the record number of women elected twenty one year old alexandria. becomes the youngest woman ever sent to congress dave holland in new mexico was one of two native americans to win election show reached david a lesbian was the other. and how on earth moment only meanwhile two woman rasheeda to leave and omar broke the mold in their campaigns. the first woman of color to represent i stayed in congress. the phantom. limb implementing the commitment. the first two refugee everything i like to tell congress. the bigger picture though is a fresh gridlock in washington music to the ears of democrats maybe but a headache for trump. all right now president trump is already trying to head off challenges he could face as a result of the lure of losing control of the house of representatives democrats now have the power to open investigations into the president s alleged wrongdoings well earlier he tweeted if the democrats think they are going to waste taxpayer money investigating us at the house level then we will like why is the force to consider investigating them for all of the leaks of classified information and much else at the senate level two can play that game well so the scene is already set for some fiery months ahead of us find out where things stand right now that everyone has had time to digest the news of the outcome of these midterm elections outside the white house is our washington bureau chief alexander out fun unama and what a night what a day i ll xander let s pick up where our previous report left off with this realigned congress how likely is it that democrats will wash investigations into a president trump. well i think with certainly should expect that the democrats have to come pain on the promise of folks. adding a stronger check of the president and his administration and now after taking over the house of representatives and a ray of important committees will be churched by the democrats intelligence judiciary foreign first means and ways and we can expect them to for example request tax returns to launch investigations into he s passed into his family business and into his administration so you see layla i think that the democratic majority will not only make it harder for trump to achieve his legislation ambitions about it also will also probably unleash a new legal and political challenges for this administration now on twitter alexander temper is selling a president trying to sell in the election results as a victory does he have a point or is he just trying to put on a brave face. he was campaigning was very busy and that is what we can say here traveling across the country and it seemed that he was successful to some extent to mobilize he s base when we look at the picture in the senate and the senate is very important for president because the senate can get his nomination for third of all judges approved confirmed and the senate will then approve potential new member of his cabinet if the president will choose to reshape his cabinet so the senate is important however of course the president cannot deny that there is a major power shift in washington but he is not a president he would take blame for anything and some experts here even say that he may at the moment not real. allies what s in pick all of this will have on his presidency. now. or in conclusion with republicans losing their house majority president trump is likely to face checks and balances as you ve just been reporting possibly also on his more controversial foreign policies can we expect realistically any substantial shift may be hitting the reset button on some bruised bilateral relations. well that of course we have to see what we can say is that the president the u.s. president has a great authority in determining the u.s. foreign policy but the congress and the house of representatives has to rein in just two examples for example trump the plan to build the border wall at the border to mexico it s not very likely that he is getting the money needed for that now or trade issues congress can rein in and try to prevent new trade wars or new sanctions or tariffs on our phenomena reporting from washington just right outside the white house thank you. art want to welcome now to the program aereo hill davis she is the director of policy at the republican women for progress which is a grassroots policy organization providing republican women with opportunities to engage in american politics and civic dialogue so great of you to make some time for us this has been a barrier shattering midterm for women however republican women voted do we know. yes well i mean i think a lot has been made in twenty teen about it being the year of the woman something that our group has been really focused on is the fact that what gets lost in that is the republican women although i think leading up into the actual election night a lot was being made about the voting bloc educated suburban white women who maybe had voted for trump but now are looking for something different because they re just pleased with with the way things are going in this country i think it s hard to deny the power of the female voter in this when you look at a lot of the seats that they were able to flip to be a democrat in the house a lot of those were reliant on suburban women voters particularly our group was involved in eight different races and eleven eight that one female moderate candidates and were happy that we were able to give voice to some republican women who were going to vote for those women and so i think moving forward they re going to continue to grow as a bloc. but this brings me to my next question republican female voters stick with the president. i think it s a little too early to parse all of the data that came out of last night s elections i think certainly when you look at the big shifts though you are seeing that the republicans and particularly the president doubled down on white predominantly male rural voters whereas the democrats really were focused on suburban female voters as well as minority voters and i think that s why you re seeing such a large split and how the votes came out that the house for the democrats went almost entirely for the suburban voters and the republicans were able to hold the senate largely based off those white male rural voters. areal hill davis director of policy at the republican women for progress thank you. thank you so much. now the u.s. president is about to speak or sometime soon about the election results in washington and we ll have a full live coverage when when and if that happens but first let s turn now to some of the other news of making headlines today. he is one of the world s most famous aviators baton peak i gained international fame back in one nine hundred ninety nine when he was the first to fly around the world without stopping in a hot air balloon while years later he took another historic journey this time as a pilot of the first solar powered airplane trip around the globe it took five hundred days because aim was to draw attention to the potential of renewable energies to replace fossil fuels well now he is touring europe to meet fellow pioneers developing technologies that could reform how we use energy and i m very happy to announce that is here with me in person good of you to be here great to meet you you re on the hunt of brilliant new ideas to save the world we need more people like you what have you found to be so promising so far first i found that people are fed up of problems and they need solutions and solutions exist today with the existing solutions you can already divide by two this year with two emissions just by being more in the g fissions with these solutions very often done that no one there in stealth ups their own research labs and sometimes it would be corporations but people don t know them so it is still allowed to pollute the route regulation is very outdated and it s not pulling these innovations to the market so my goal is really to show that the paradigm shift today is the following protection of the environment has become profitable the solutions to protect environment and fight climate change a creating jobs. bringing profit it is stimulating growth but it s a clean growth it s a growth a consistent. re placing all the old dirty and polluting and inefficient technologies by new modern technologies and this is for the advantage of everybody not only for the environment also for the economy so i are you saying that you will be able in the near future to implement some of these ideas that you just outlined absolutely and the these ideas are not mine they are ideas of start ups and what we are doing is to collect them select them and assess them and through the evaluation process we put the label it s the solar impulse efficient solution label that guarantees the profitability of these solutions so we can speak the language of the people we want to convince we could we can go to see president trump and say if you want to make america great again here is a way to create jobs and make profits and growth for the industry by the way it also protects the environments that some people on that interested by that s right now let s talk about solar impulse your plan was in effect a huge billboard for a solar panel how do you think this kind of thing helps. it helps to shoulder that s clean technologies and renewable energy is a fashionable that they re profitable and that they allow to achieve the impossible because so often we are prisoners of old ways of thinking and we have to change the paradigms today if we won t say for the better quality of life for all we have to shift to renewable energies we have to shift to energy efficiency we have to protect the environment and we have to show that this is the new adventure for the twenty first century it s not anymore about conquering new territories it s about improving quality of life and we can do it now fortunately now we have the solution i don t want to rain on your parade produce think really in the foreseeable future we could see that technology being used in commercial aviation yes absolutely in the seven years and nine mons we will have electric airplanes transporting fifty people again i can be so precise because two years and three months ago i said in ten years so the shadow of a poser to what if we re still around are if i want to talk about your trip around the world and talk to some of it about that did you get a rush out of me five hundred days that s a long time because you know what was fascinating was to fly in there a plane that makes no noise makes no pollution has no fuel so when you were flying across oceans it was several days and several nights in a row you know five days for the pacific three days for the atlantic and you i discussed it and you think i mean the future it s science fiction and then you realise that it s not science fiction it s the reality of what the technologies of today allow us to do today and then you understand how much the rest of the world is in the past with old inefficient and polluting technologies and then you hit on the table and say i want to do something against that. kathy thank you so much sir for coming to see if we figure thank you for they need asian. are now after the us i m. term oh elections of course investors are bracing for a period of gridlock and then has all on that oh yeah there s a little bit of on the right now of the markets mixed reaction when you look across european indices today economists believe president trump may not be able to cut taxes further but it also means that this current tax cuts compu roll back i believe the gridlock in washington will keep a check on some of trump s more disruptive market measures like the trade war with china some point out that the u.s. economy often performs well when control of congress is split between republicans and democrats. we asked the head of the american chamber of commerce in germany frank sport allowed what the election results mean for german american trite. we on the one hand have to fear that the democrats and republicans will not be able to work together at all that would mean no legislation of any type being passed we also have to be a little bit concerned that the democrats might use some of the control they gain in the house to launch a lot of investigations which maybe may have merit in some way but which certainly would distract the country from what it needs to do. on the other hand president trump has shown that he is willing and able to use his executive authority to do things basically the trade actions that he s doing are based for the most part on executive authority so i don t see least not initially a major shift in the trade situation unfortunately by the way let s get the word from god i believe in our financial correspondent in frankfurt the head of the american chamber of commerce in germany they re selling very skeptical about the political gridlock in u.s. politics the market reaction though at least here in germany has been quite upbeat . absolutely ben and believe it or not there are people on the markets who love political gridlock at least that s according to a couple of apple is reports which came out today and let me quote one it s by aaron anderson of fisher investments he writes it will be nearly impossible to pass anything remotely controversial that will drive many people on the market s crazy but markets love it we should now have a long stretch where political risks go away down which should be good for stocks now that s of course only one voice but of course this positive reaction on the markets here in frankfurt also has to do with hopes for the u.s. economy the democrats in the house will likely not do anything in order to muffle or slow down the economy in the u.s. on the contrary it s likely that they will sort of try to cooperate even with the administration for example with an infrastructure bill not a huge one like donald trump had promised but at least something to keep the economy in the u.s. going and of course the labor market too while we re talking about the u.s. economy what about something like state deads that has never really seem to be top of the agenda for any president. that s true but people here are convinced that political gridlock is also a positive in terms of american debt it means more checks and balances the u.s. president donald trump will not be able in future to increase that to spend to increase the budget deficit as recklessly as he has done during the first two years of his presidency ok interesting stuff conor posing for us thank you very much. the german council of economic experts predicts the national economy to grow by only one point six percent this year as down from a previous estimate of two point three they say the government has a number of problems to address aging population the report suggests increasing the retirement age and lowering taxes the council also urges the government to take precautions against the ongoing trade war germany relies heavily on exports putting it in a precarious position. airbus and boeing have called for an end to the u.s. china trade dispute executives of the world s largest plane makers and bitter rivals made the announcement at an air show in china the country has become a key hunting ground for a craft benefactors looking to expand their business because of the surge in air travel that s accompanies a wide that the ongoing trade conflicts could derail borders from china passenger aircraft why china s biggest imports from both the u.s. and europe conflict could push beijing to look for alternative options. i love thank you so much been greatly appreciated now one america s closest allies excuse me has officially launched her campaign to lead the chancellor s conservative c.d.u. party america announced last week that she was stepping down from the job as party leader and whoever succeeds her will be well positioned to become germany s next chancellor on a grand crown current power also known as a k k is seen as the most centrist of the three main candidates vying for the role . she is. anointed successor and it was the children s lives legacy that on the great crime carabao up on that first in her speech used as those in the. this is the end of an era in which there are many personal relationships as many personal experiences that i connect with angela merkel. but this is also the end of an era that has changed and shaped the c.p.u. in a very special and lasting way. come about was state premier of zala and before i m going to mack who brought her to belin as secretary general of the c.d.u. in that position crum carabao has effectively been macos right hand woman but with many in the party disillusioned with merkel and her governing coalition a challenge will be to step out of merkel s shadow and shop and her own profile. today she said it was time to open a new chapter. yet she refused to criticize the chancellor s controversial immigration policy saying the challenge now is to find solutions and. when somebody knocks on our door and we take the men and give them protection if they then abuse that protection to commit crimes here how should we deal with that and those are the questions that people expect answers to but they don t text back to us to discuss three years later whether what happened in two thousand and fifteen was right or wrong. mexico s refugee policy has come under heavy criticism not least from one of crime carbo s contenders for the party leadership. on who currently serves as health minister and her cabinet met with c.d.u. members in north rhine-westphalia and she s day along with metz who is also standing both the seen as more conservative than the chancellor and have vowed to move the c.d.u. further to the right the new leader will be elected at a party conference almost seventh of december. now the decision by uncle americal to step down as city you leader was has upped the pressure on her controversial bavarian ally or say offer to follow suit but today is a hoffer dismissed newspaper reports predicting his resignation calling them a red herring earlier his spokesman said say hoffer has yet to make a decision on his future calls for the c.s.u. leader to resign have grown louder since his party s poor showing in bavarian elections last month. in cameroon seventy nine boarding school students who were kidnapped by separatists have been released reports say the kidnappers are still holding three adult hostages from the school the children aged between eleven and seventeen were seized were kidnapped early monday morning and amend the capital of the northwest region no single group says it carried out the abduction but separatist militias have been calling for a school boycott. well earlier we spoke with our west africa correspondent increase in lagos nigeria he was recently in cameroon to cover the presidential elections there and he told us how schoolchildren have become targets in the regional separatist conflict and i m just being told that we do have aid increase in person live great to see you adrian. our west africa correspondent of course that has been following this story very closely adrian the children are thankfully free and now what s happening . well the local governor was talking to journalists today a local journalist and and he said that the children were reunited with their families and that they re related leave fine that they re doing relatedly well and what is quite interesting we also said they re going straight back to school right now they re going back to their boarding school and this is a shop contrast to what we ve heard from some of the parents yesterday they actually said that once the kids are back they do not want them to go back to school because they see that other danger right now adrian do we know who kidnapped them. i know right now we re not sure what was behind it s looks obvious that it was a separatist but there s about ten separate groups separatist groups active in this region and none of them has claimed responsibility to what has happened many of them have in fact condemned the kidnapping so there s a lot of speculation still going on and cameroon some people even claim it could be that the government that was behind all this so they could justify the force they used against separatists remember the military in cameroon has been criticized heavily in the past for their human rights abuses but this is all speculation and is very difficult to find out the truth because this part of cameroon is not a part where to national observers or journalists can just travel to there s a lot of restrictions from the side of the government and local journalists also can t report freely under a regime that is highly repressive and that has a president who has been in power for more than thirty six years now unfortunately this is not the first time this school where students have been abducted why have they become the target of choice. so most of the schools in the region have been closed for two years because of the pressure of separatist group they have two reasons one they want to present the government to get on the negotiation table and the second reason they say is that they don t want the kids to grow up under the french language system on the french school system and that is why they don t want the kids to go to school they force the parents to boycott the schools and that is basically the reason why for two years now most of the kids in this entire area are not going to school which is of course a terrible situation. all right now president paul will be have was inaugurated say yesterday for a seventh term i just have twenty seconds left what does this mean for the cameras the english speaking region. well we are probably not calling for dialogue this is what the catholic church and many observers of been asking for but it is not likely that he will change the strategy he said in his inauguration speech or ever that he s open for more decentralization this is what a lot of people are calling for but most people do not believe that anything will change anytime soon in this region all right aid you increase reporting there thank you so very much. all right let s return now to our top story the u.s. the midterm elections you are watching live pictures but there are no life pictures because we re still awaiting a for them president donald trump is expected to make his for and there they are
and there challengers. this seventy seven percent. platform for security. this is t w news coming to you live from berlin present donald trump loses another key cabinet member that he once stood shoulder to shoulder with now defense secretary jim matheson is stepping down you know it s been comes after the president s abrupt decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria also coming up planes are flying again at britain s second biggest airport but authorities still haven t tracked down the drones that forced london gatwick to ground its flights causing holiday travel chaos. and threatened for their faith christians in pakistan prepare for christmas but they re increasingly the target of deadly attacks we find out how one family has suffered but sorbonne says. hello i m terry martin good to have you with us u.s. defense secretary jim mattis has resigned over president donald trump s decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria the four star marine general will leave in february after holding the job since trump took office reports indicate that not just decided to go after a last ditch attempt to persuade the president to reverse his decision on syria. u.s. secretary of defense james mattis has widely been viewed as a stabilizing force both within the unpredictable us government as well as internationally the four star marine general has been defense secretary since president donald trump took office but now he s on his way out the door the two reportedly clashed on several major policy issues trump surprise announcement to withdraw troops from syria appears to have taken their differences one step too far in his resignation letter mattis stressed the importance of the u.s. maintaining strong partnerships my views on treating allies with respect and also being clear eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues. that is also points to opposing policy views but the white house press secretary refutes the idea that the two had a strained relationship. secretary mabus has served the president and with the president for two years they have a good relationship i ve seen it up close and personal on a number of occasions and again they agree to disagree at times but that doesn t mean you can t have a good relationship with somebody he was laying out the reasons that he was stepping down from his post and beyond that i think it s absurd to try to question the fight when they were together for two to marietta. house democratic leader nancy pelosi said the departure of mattis is a further blow to the stability of u.s. partnerships and also sends the wrong signal to the nation s military. and shaken by the resignation of general mattis what it means to our country for the message it sends to troops our troops looking. as a leader and now he is going to be leaving them very serious for our country. and it appears trumps decision to reduce u.s. military involvement goes beyond syria now u.s. officials say trump is also considering limiting the u.s. presence in afghanistan cutting troops by half u.s. forces deployed to afghanistan after the september eleventh attacks in two thousand and one. since then twenty four hundred u.s. soldiers have died fighting the taliban in america s longest war. the timeline for either troop withdrawal is unclear some officials say a syrian pullout could be completed within sixty to one hundred days but first president trump needs to appoint a new secretary of defense. in his letter outgoing defense secretary mattis told the president quote you have the right to have a secretary of defense whose views are aligned with yours. for more now we re joined here in the studio by middle east analyst mark is calling from the german institute for international and security affairs good to see you mark good morning let s start with the resignation of u.s. defense secretary jim mattis what impact will that have on america s military operations and what s or so of it will have an impact on the military operations but it s a clear political signal i mean with two representatives representing very different schools international folds all international affairs president trump representing multinational it s true strain of u.s. foreign policy and in memphis representing well the internationalist strain of u.s. foreign policy and the nationalist obviously has long and therefore i think it s not only a withdrawal militaru withdraw from the rule but also political withdrawal from southern cross is faults around the world so much as it was seen as a stabilizing force in an administration that was often unpredictable that is often unpredictable from a european perspective what does it mean to lose him. or has been huge concern about the commitment of the trumpet ministration to transatlantic security relations and that has been regarded as a guarantor of traditional transcendental security approach and with him leaving office the consensus. leaving even more growing in the european capitals he emphasized it s a matter of resignation pretty clearly bay you both appreciating the transatlantic partnerships and devalue of allies and rejecting the approach of you know as president i m deaf i think in european capitals the idea of resonating it s just that european allies kind of maligned the president on the united states president losing a multilateral list in the administration as it were now this all started with trump s decision to pull troops out of syria what do you make of that decision the guy is not defeated in syria think we have twenty top twenty thousand to thirty thousand fighters on the weapons with seventy to seventy five attacks on a daily basis in syria as well as in iraq so it s a terrorist organization and being pretty active so on it s just simply premature to argue that behind isis has been defeated and it s undermining the international effort to come but to continue to comment on this is therefore undermining be a u.s. internationalist approach and i expect allies to follow germany the u.k. and france also withdrawing its troops from iraq as well as you know so what will this mean for syria for what s going on there right now because it is a very complex proxy war with many interests involved absolutely nothing it s pretty obvious that the united states has left some kind of strategic break room and i would think it s less a commitment or withdrawal from the middle east not only syria but i would say what are you from the middle east in general and this is true today from the soap all of us rushing around turkey these al the policy ruling questions on. influencing the president will polls toll all before the middle east falls here and the middle east trump has also announced his intention to pull. american troops half of american troops out of afghanistan what are the implications of not that on the minds needless and for if it s in the afghanistan i think the need to speak for secretary general. has been law has not been informed about the decision as well and. i mean the secretary of defense the i m insecure of that of defense triples just enough against him recently announcing that the money will continue to be present in afghanistan i cannot really imagine the mission would get made to a mission in afghanistan without the united states so i think the signal he gives as well as in syria you know for withdrawal and this commitment that undermines the credibility and legitimacy of the of government as well marcus thank you very much for your analysis marcus column from the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world today cattle on pro independence groups are out on the streets in barcelona to protest a planned cabinet meeting in the city chaired by prime minister pedro sanchez the weekly meeting usually takes place in madrid but sanchez s government decided to hold it in the cattle and capital in an attempt at reconciliation. and that methane explosion in the czech coal miners killed thirteen miners a blast more than eight hundred meters underground is said to have destroyed large areas of the coal mine which is near the town of karbala eleven polish nationals and two checks are among the dead flights have restarted at london s gatwick airport after repeated drone flyovers shut down the operations there for thirty six hours some one hundred twenty thousand people have been delayed but now many will be able to fly out on the seven hundred departures scheduled for today. this is one of the first planes to land at gatwick since wednesday drone sightings paralyze the airport leaving thousands stranded hungry tired and frustrated the chaos is taking its toll i have yet to have lunch breakfast dinner coffee anything else since yesterday and i say i go to the left home at three o clock yesterday moon i m heading out to sleep and it s now. five o clock in the morning here is twenty six hours so one feeling mr rush terrible tired and i just want to go home. authorities are now confident that planes can fly safely britain has called in the military and snipers to intercept the drones. i work with our partners and with their full story see we consume options around the airport a place in a much better position to respond so i think it s right before the host on these president bush press a position to respond to takes and to track the drug should it reappear. the airport says it aims to have one hundred ten thousand passengers travel out of get wake on friday the unprecedented incident has highlighted the threat drones pose to airports the international airline body. has called first steps to reduce rogue drone operations near airports to pakistan were christians are increasingly the target of deadly attacks partly motivated by a harsh interpretation of blasphemy laws in the islamic republic the most high profile case involves a b.b. a roman catholic woman recently acquitted of blasphemy with christmas approaching we decided to take a look at what life is like for pakistan s christians sabaidee amir met some of them in islamic law. christmas is a favorite time of year for this christian family in islamabad the cougars appreciate being together especially as their lives were completely turned upside down seven years ago shot of cool kid was falsely accused of blasphemy jailed and acquitted five months later in that time he lost his job and home but is grateful he didn t lose his life to live a free man now shot its detention continues to haunt him. you always live in fear because of this we feel insecure. when we talk about your future i think what kind of future can we have it all explained the law and policies here need to be implemented properly. blasphemy is an extremely dangerous and emotive subject in pakistan and name will forever be associated with it the catholic laborer spent eight years on death row after being accused of insulting islam she was recently acquitted of all charges respond to violent protests across the country some hardliners called for r.c. i mean judges involved in the ruling to be hanged. no one convicted of blasphemy has ever be legally its accusers about to start but there are plenty of examples of people who have been killed by lynch mobs just after being accused of it and its religious minorities it was disproportionately affected by the controversial laws. pakistan s christians make up around two percent of the population and have been the target of escalating attacks in recent he is human rights groups claim accusations of blasphemy is seen as an easy way to settle disputes as a hard to disprove but the acquittal of ossie bibi also provides a ray of hope for this pastor. the fact that an innocent woman can be sentenced to death has made a scared it will set a bad precedent where they can arrest anyone and prosecute them so when we heard that b.p. was finally acquitted you cannot behave how happy we were we were the two churches and offered prayers thanks to god. for failing make up on but we were into fearful when we were young but we do have some fears now for example if there are gatherings we don t go outdoors when children go to church and they see armed guards they do ask why is there so much security security. attacks will continue to happen here no matter what will remain united under the name of jesus. for many christians the facts that he has been freed is a christmas miracle only could not. and even though she remains in hiding in the
this is not the kind of freedom that anyone. how did we become a key player to islamist terror until you see the story come under morsi as the result of an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the us starts people living g.w. . this is d w news asia coming up on the program journalism is not a crime but in the philippines top investigative reporter maria teresa faces a major press freedom challenge will be speaking with her plus. japan unveils the name of a new era these characters will represent the court of japan s next emperor we tell you what they need. i m melissa chan welcome to the program it s good to have you with us we start out in the philippines where journalist and editor in chief of the rappler maria teresa has posted bail for an eighth time raissa is a well respected investigative reporter and the rappler is a news website which has recorded without fear or favor including on the current government of president rugby go to terror tape that has led to eleven complaints and cases raissa and her news room face to date everything from tax evasion to libel has been thrown at them the one that s free press coalition a global alliance of newsrooms has identified racist case as one of the top ten most urgent press freedom cases in the world today and i should add that this week daughter of ella joined this coalition with the latest we turn to maria teresa herself maria thank you for joining the program bring us up to speed what s going on what s the latest. well tonight we re preparing for the first arraignment and the court of tax appeals that s four different charges of tax evasion there s a fifth charge in a regional trial for it that happens tomorrow morning in manila eight thirty in the morning i ve had quite a weekend you know i came off of a fourteen hour flight from san francisco as soon as i landed in manila on friday morning i was greeted by police officers who showed me an arrest warrant for the for the violation of the anti-gun the law in the philippines they then took me to the station booked me and then allowed me to go to court so i can post bail i mean that would have been nice to have just posted bail without getting arrested. after we finished that on a friday three days later on a monday i get another arrest warrant the eighth one and i posted bail right after so i spent most of yesterday it was running in and out of four different courts larry you re all smiles and you are an experienced journalist you re a brave journalist but i wonder are have you been scared are you scared i think right now the emotion is more anger i mean it s gone from ridiculous to the absurd how many times well you and i joked earlier in the year about collecting arrest warrants i didn t expect my government to take me seriously but you know filing eleven charges legal cases and investigations against rappler in just a little over a year that s roughly fourteen months that total that that actually shows you in action political harassment and attempts to intimidate and silence us all this does is make us more resolute to continue doing the stories that need to get done well that actually brings me to the next question rappler has been in the global news tell us a little bit about her newsroom and what you guys care about what you guys cover for people who don t know much about the rappler. i think part of the interest in rappler and the philippines is just you know this kind of quick. descent out of democracy we we ve been a robust democracy for for decades and now we re seeing this which rappler was set up it s a start up that began in two thousand and twelve and if you look at what we are weak say that we build communities of action the use technology to do that we started until szell media on facebook and it allowed us to grow one hundred to three hundred percent year on year in the beginning those are the good days but we were also the first target once social media was weaponized in two thousand and sixteen and these are the things that we ve become known for looking at digital forensics exposing the propaganda machinery on social media ninety seven percent of filipinos on the internet are on facebook facebook is our social media it is the internet. and what we ve seen is the data supports the systematic a rouge and. attacks on journalists and new scoops that were erosion of credibility if you cannot believe in the facts then you begin to question truth and that breaks down trust and that s what we re seeing in our democracy today very polarized society we continue to report what is happening and at the same time the other focal point aside from the descent from nation operation the information operations and this information that s on social media is the drug war it s brutal the u.n. slayed this estimate says up to twenty seven thousand people killed that s a lot the philippine police say they ve killed more than five thousand people in this drug war and there are more than thirty thousand homicide cases under investigation. thank you good night and good luck thanks so much because. for years social media giant says facebook and twitter have faced criticism because of the spread of hate speech and distant from asian what some call a fake news on their platforms we were just talking about that yet calls to regulate these tech companies are often at odds with free speech rights in the united states well that s less of a problem in singapore where the government just introduced a law dealing with fake news it will require media outlets to make corrections on any content officials consider fake critics say this gives the state yet another opportunity to control content earlier we spoke to journalist kirsten hahn and asked her whether the law is likely to be abused and misused. it it s really difficult to. predict that because the power in the law and this bill is not the first one to be so broadly word is that. it gives the author and he s a lot of discretion and a lot of power to selectively choose how they want to use it so they might not use it on everybody but their particular people or particular callers that they might want to be tough on and come back on and. we ve seen that with previous. as well as the administration of justice protection act which deals with contempt of court which was also very broad and has been used on opposition politician and activist over the past year for things that they said on facebook and the least two men are waiting for death sentences which could be quite heavy fines or perhaps even you know in the extreme case of imprisonment and so that that s a concern not necessary that we think it will immediately be used but that the potential is there and it just gives them another level of control over expression and simple so a lot of journalists are concerned about the potential ramifications but is there a sense do you have a sense of what most singapore ins think about this matter but it s hard to tell what most singapore and think about this matter especially because the building just came out so i don t know how many singaporeans actually have read it in the detail mainstream media reporting tends not to flag the more concerning bit that you know activists will bring up so the fear is that there would be a chilling effect in this bill because when it s so broadly worded that people don t really know where the lines. it s likely that they were self sense and stand and you know in my experience self-censorship is already extremely common in singapore even people who might not be able to articulate. what they feel about human rights and civil liberties and freedom of expression in singapore might unconsciously also question the self sense that there s this sense that their particular lines that you don t cross in singapore. thank you very much for your time. japan s next emperor natters ito now has a name for his imperial era it will be called the rye while the designation is an important part of public life in japan affecting the naming of everything from coins calendars documents even computer software not hito. from his father akihito who steps down at the end of the month it will be japan s first application in two hundred years. scrambling to grab a moment in history crowds in tokyo rush to secure a special edition newspaper s celebrating the mark of a new monarch. of the. game of the new era israel. it was the announcement that ended weeks of top secret meetings and intense media speculation iran names are traditionally taken from chinese classics but for the first time the government drew on ancient japanese poetry which describes the blossoming of plum flower was about. thirty thousand all under the new era each and every japanese person can hope for the future and make their own flowers blossom. we have decided on ray with these wishes for japan. it will come in the mouth of a pony is the guy. here and aims consist of two chinese characters the government insists ray watch translates to beautiful harmony but ray can also mean order or command which some say gives the ear a forceful overtimes. while others debate the semantics the schoolchildren adjust to the new experience. you know. i was born and lived in the hasty air at the whole time it feels a bit strange that it will become railway just like that. the city. you know. if i was guessing with my mum that the new year would start with an r. so the name is right well i m happy that we got it right. and. the suspense also finally ended for japan s businesses. here at the toto and company a calendar and dari mica stuff spring into action now a frenzied month begins to pump out the new products. the re what year is set to define a new cultural period in japan or at least a period as long as the new improves rule. in japan re what down under in australia means something totally different it s the acronym for the real estate institute of western australia. and they posted this on twitter seventy percent of traffic to re what dot com today were from people in japan mistaking their real estate portal for their country s new imperial era. that story and more on our website that com forward slash a change you can check out on facebook as well on that post script that s our show will leave you with not klum but cherry blossoms along the roads of the imperial palace in tokyo they ve been lit up for the enjoyment of night visitors next time. to. cut. through to. make. up to date don t miss our highlights. program. w dot com hard. to know that seventy seven percent. are younger than taking pot. shots at me and me and. you know what it s time all voices. to seventy seven percent talk about the issue. from politics to flash from housing boom top this is where they are. welcome to the seventy seven percent of. the fifty six g.w. . world trade organization is sounding the global growth forecast nearly. as the u.s. china trade conflict drags it slowing chinese economy 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and the ethics of artificial intelligence experts to discuss just how intrusive machines should be in the interconnected world of tomorrow. i m going for let s do business applause roared from tokyo prince hotel today as shareholders kicked. off the board of the japanese comic the ones powerful auto executives facing allegations of financial misconduct which the company fears could wreck its image. holders a right to decide the fate of carlos it s a meeting that began with an apology. on behalf of the company allow me to express my sincere regret for any concern the recent events may have caused. he wrote. to trust the board and dismiss carlos. the final decision on the criminal charges will be left to the judicial system. however the two asses of the issue is removal on the grounds of breach of copyright ethics even of one is of this misconduct would lead to the dismissal of any executive or employee. or just before his fourth arrest last week going again denied the charges against him saying they re part of a conspiracy within a sound to discredit him and his plans for the company nevertheless shareholders did is they were told and approved his removal as the comic is chair and it s really such a pity he was a brilliant executive i guess he became complacent as he was being praised so much . could pierce the receiver how this is so disappointing but when he came forward with his revival plan not just me but about twenty thousand employees across the world were fired as we now see you have so much money to spare and squander feel there was no need for him to fire as i really don t get it. but. the particular. gain will be replaced on the sounds board by john dominic sanaa chairman of ren which has a forty three percent stake in the japanese firm he s promised to dedicate his energy to helping their son through the storm. and advice joins us now for her perspective from frankfurt and later i thought this was what this whole power struggle really was about between the car makers within there are a lioness and now miss on is allowing renault s chairman to replace god and it was wired the whole time there were no was really taking over operations. well actually . it s a very different character than carlos go is and so he ever since he was like the interim the replacement for carlos though and i think he has things to try to please the japanese side of things so what s happening now is that he s replacing go in the board of an assembly he s not going to be the chairman of the board of this sound that makes a big big their friend because what this son and the japanese apparently didn t like too much that carlos go in was amassing more and more power in society alliance and made them feel that they didn t have a say anymore on anything. it s also said that he was amassing more and more wealth at the cost of the company i guess over the years how can we be sure and how can shareholders be sure that the rest of the board is above board. well for now the evidence is not suggesting that anybody else on the board has also conducted such an amount or at least anything wrong i should say and it was more or less carlos go in who was conducting all these very fraud and transactions on behalf of his amassing his own wealth if you were to say so for now as i was saying there s no evidence that anybody else on the board has done anything wrong back in it i suppose thank you very much. the chairman of korea has died a fortnight off the shareholders removed him from the company s board young hole died of natural causes he became c.e.o. in one nine hundred ninety two and its growth into one of asia s biggest airlines but scandals is more recent korea has indicted on charges including a bad woman and tax evasion. experts say chinese direct investment has passed its peak the cubans to cheat for the world economy says german fears the beijing is taking over europe s biggest economy a baseless i ll talk to the president of the institute in a moment first this report. bit by bit chinese companies have bought their way into the german economy over the past few years the latest who is chinese car maker gili is purchase of nearly ten percent of diameter shares that s made jelly the biggest single shareholder of its german competitor and in previous years chinese companies snapped up a number of prized german firms like concrete pump maker puts muster and industrial robot manufacture kuka such transactions have triggered concerns among businesses the workforce and politicians in germany the main worry is that china is not only interested in the companies and shares but in buying up german technology and know how as well as influencing corporate strategy chinese direct investment in germany remained at a low level until twenty fifteen after that it shot up reaching more than twelve billion euros in twenty seventeen though last year did see a drop of twenty percent. analysts say that s because chinese investors no longer have as much ready cash and because the german government has tightened restrictions on acquisitions by foreign companies. president of the institute for the world economy and joins us from munich so why aren t the chinese as cashed up as they once were. because the chinese economy has done through a very substantial restructuring over the last two years as china ones was the biggest exports of capital to the world and it no longer is in two thousand and eighteen it has run a current account deficit and we predict that in two thousand one thousand and twenty this will be the same so the social for all these cash is actually trying out and that s why we think the chinese boom of investment abroad might be actually already over now germany is still top of china s theirs for european takeovers how how much is it a case of the german government being too lax about foreign investment here because we all know the chinese are extremely restrictive. so yes there isn t a symmetry that is clear we would like the chinese to open up and it makes sense in my point a few to threaten to close down chairman his market in order to get more access to the chinese one but we shouldn t forget open markets open for intact investment markets are very useful also to the sherman economy gives us access to this largest the economy of the world the chinese one it scales are operating so for german firms and this was the shores of employment at home there is very little evidence that chinese investment has been bad to ensure many quite to the opposite very often a chinese investment has made it possible for german firms to grow faster and to secure employment at home china is still the the second largest economy in the world but it s well on its way to becoming the biggest now you say german companies shouldn t be wired but the rules china follows odd different to the rest of the world. well the rules might be different but the big question is to what extent are chinese investors really different so if we think about which made of course a large. impact to the creation of cooper made a large impact on the german opinion what had been sold let s say to an investor from new york to several solo player crook would that have been difference in in a negative sense we think the chinese investors a strategic investors they have their own interest for sure the same would be true for sherman investors abroad and the question is at best this harm us or not up to the up to date we have a lot of suspicion and mistrust but we have very little evidence and think in order to make informed policy choices we would have to gather evidence we cannot act on suspicion on. my president of the kill institute for the world economy telling germans not to worry about those chinese investors abroad thank you very much for joining us you re welcome robots are already taking away the drudgery of factory work now they could start stepping in way humans are more fallible like in monitoring our health but how intrusive should we allow machines to be. official intelligence office great potential for mobility and medicine using thousands of x. ray images researches at stanford university have trained their own homegrown ally to conduct diagnoses when you have to do is photograph and upload an x. ray and wait a couple of seconds for the result. it s a mess and it s this thing over here is a possibly cancerous lesion and i can see that right over her. ai control through even apparently on remarkable data like how a body moves while walking algorithms can use such data to recognize potential signs of conditions like parkinson s signs a doctor could easily miss but caution is advised. much of what we see might be great but it throws up ethical questions which need to be answered alongside the developments we make we don t want to situation where we have very ethical that fail to progress nor should we just freely develop things and ignore the ethical side take google s intelligent microphone s for example google itself warns in some detail what can be derived from household sounds like the length of time we spend brushing our teeth or whether we argue or if someone in the household is sick who. is to take over the world. to direct our thoughts between person and person or communication about official intelligence grants huge power to silicon valley s tech companies gemini s justice minister wants data monopolies to be broken up as a sling and outsiders can we must adapt antitrust law to the needs of the modern age for example facebook s takeover of whatsapp should have been prevented by antitrust law because it was completely clear what it would lead to namely a massive concentration of data being collected. and consent out so there s no avoiding it the ai revolution is coming the question is can ethics keep step with progress. and make sure you keep those take i was doing business with it. the for. the for. the for. the for. the feel. to one. marriage counseling the islamic 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here to indoctrinate but to listen. plus ninety connect to an unbiased agenda subscribe now on youtube. and action packed life. anything s possible as long as up because he and his friends can dream at its roots here in kenya stuck dob refugee camp. his life story may have grown into a. twenty seven years ago but there is no holding back his dreams. thank you for what cinema the dogma of sorts may twenty seventh through on t w. forty years after the islamic revolution iran is a country torn between the conservative influence of the clerics and a desire for change. you can go online and find out what s going on in the world in a matter of minutes you can expect the younger generation to stand still young people will move on if equipment. many are pushing back against the country strict social and cultural laws. or there s a new law that says we can only sing in the persian but since we started out we ve always aim to be international international. and many are testing their own limits in their bid for greater freedom. this is the first time we ve done an off road tour that i m going into the forest and spending the night away from home it s great to have. a potentially wealthy country struggling with powerful outside enemies and its own domestic problems. with iran is known to be rich in natural resources but the government can t even manage one i live in a. land of contradictions at once unsettling and breathtakingly beautiful on the mama granites have a bitter skin but there is sweet inside just like iran if you don t. we begin our journey in the capital tehran. home to a population of thirteen million it s the beating heart of the country. we re meeting a fashion designer whose mission is to challenge iran s strict islamic dress code. and in their belts to have a major that moves in the way people dress is like a living museum a marriage to the country that long after the islamic revolution there were only four colors black brown dark blue and grey though his article. and five hundred years ago you give guests colorful fabrics as gifts given. but today i had to time that i thought that in islam black is actually seen as an ugly nasty unpopular color but. if you think it shouldn t actually be worn you know. that i don t know how it came to the us at all. muslim money s aim is to return color to the streets of iran she scours the country collecting antique fabrics and reworks them as fresh and modern outfits. as the money is the ground ever really in fashion a celebrity. but even though she has an ambitious agenda she s also careful not to go too far. so her seamstresses take their headscarves off when they re indoors in front of the camera so money keeps her head covered she doesn t want to trouble with the authorities. now we are going to parliament and the parliament is the place to my partner and of that there folks. don t all think we. should. we accompany the designer on her weekly shopping trip to one of the city s main bazaars. kim and. i came back to tehran from london before the islamic revolution in the one nine hundred seventy nine and at first i worked for a bank. there was a doorman. every morning he tipped his hat when we arrived and greet us very respectfully. after the revolution he ordered us women to stay in our rooms and work together. back then i decided never to be employed somewhere but rather to be my own boss and so that was a political story wasn t it but not really it was just a personal anecdote right with. the conflict over iran s nuclear program has left the country isolated. u.s. sanctions against tehran affect everyone the value of the iranian ryall against the dollar continues to decline making imported goods more expensive. prices are exploding on. intimate friday than i would i say medals a few weeks ago for six cents now they cost eighty cents. i hardly have any customers left women used to come to me and pay the equivalent of seven hundred euros for an evening gown i mean i don t have customers like that anymore and the poor vendors here they have even bigger problems. on the good people of the former latest project milo some money has partnered with a major management consultancy. her glossy fashion magazine lotus is now published in english as well as persian. exalt in iran and a number of select cities worldwide. some money is chief editor for her backer has an international client base. but this particular one i like it because it s about culture five star. is a new thing and this wonderful lady is the pioneer in fashion and she s the first designer to have a run you know. catwalk and fashion show when you want permits by the government. that was the money spent months negotiating with the authorities for permission to publish her designs in a magazine on sale overseas islamic fashion. clothes that comply with standards of modest dress. now is it twenty years and. by teaching. what color and that. is if you will of course. but the fight hasn t been won yet. the money recently signed a contract with an airline to design the flight attendants outfits elegant but by no means figure defining. the design or complains that she s not allowed to send models down a runway that s even allowed in afghanistan she says. that monica bhide. i would be so happy if i had an opportunity to present my work in public like designers all over the world to organize completely normal runway shows so that the fashion world can get to know my work. even if hundreds of women see me as successful personally i have no sense of satisfaction. yet that. small step by small step mom has a money is fighting for reform not by opposing the regime but by securing its permission to show her work. the younger generation in iran has less patience they abide by the rules but they find ways of carving out small slices of their own personal freedom. we meet up with some young iranians in no shah on the southern shore of the caspian sea some two hundred kilometers north of tehran. sealants. for seven years ago i decided to start saving up to buy my own car would i work in a cafe from nine in the morning until eleven in the evening then i d work in a garage making car headlamps until four in the morning. through the local role through goofy kind of. like. i came across these groups of people on instagram who do off roading i was really intrigued and started thinking about doing it myself. there wasn t anyone around here that i knew of organizing off road adventures. did you know that we kathleen moved here the whole. jump she did and his girlfriend should i have been together long they invite us along on one of their off road clubs tours and give us permission to film. it s brave of them to go on camera and for she s going to let herself be filmed without a headscarf. like the war and for young people getting to know each other over whether there are a lot of or just around so this is a perfect spot of a. co-worker. who you think that you deny usually meet up and go for a drive sometimes just for fifteen minutes or half an hour. every two weeks we ll be in a cafe. now and then we meet more regularly but we ve never spent more than two hours together and thought that s had to be done and that would be to me only. one quote. mosquito no shark is a student city and popular with tourists fleeing the stress of tehran. down here in the north the climate is mild the air fresh and the view of the mountain forests are spectacular. the club members have invested a lot of money in their off road vehicles to them off roading is more than a hobby it s a taste of freedom. they get together once or twice a month then head out to the countryside. chaudhary ex father is considered a martyr he died of wounds sustained in the iran iraq war. her mother and her brothers are strict with her they don t know that she s spending the weekend with her boyfriend. come on. i am most proud that on this earth i once told my brother the truth about where i was going but it was no good. i m forced to lie. of course i m worried i ll be found out. but you know normal everyday life is no fun. the worry makes list all the more exciting it makes me enjoy the trip all the more. feeling like you need to be secretive when you want to have a good time is actually cool. this is the first time she has come on a trip with me so i want to be as great as possible the first trip is important i want the first impression to be good if i could. just. see. all these young people were born after the islamic revolution they ve never known another iraq they re well educated and many of them have relatives who live abroad they know what s going on in the world at the very least from surfing the internet jumpseat and should i met online exchanging photos and phone numbers on instagram now and then the government blocks social media platforms but young people take it in stride. time to check out everyone uses social media in iran we couldn t survive a single day without it everyone knows how to get the apps you need to unlock sites that have been blocked so you can get back to surfing because it matters so much to the sap. socializing in. run usually happens behind closed doors or away from prying eyes like at this campsite deep in the woods. religious police raids used to be commonplace these days the regime mostly leaves people in peace within their own four walls but. these young people don t mind being filmed they say we just want to do what young people all over the world do it doesn t mean we don t love our country oh my god. by the vatican it s terrible that most documentaries show around in such black and white terms all despair and suffering and veiled women each other you d think we lived in a communist system and total darkness he has i never show that people in iran a happy to mind and enjoy life despite the restrictions we live with and i said he saw that in him no doubt. that. they re taking a risk that they re willing to live with the consequences for the sake of their personal freedom. that. that. was. was. the. for the next day a few more pictures before they head back home to post on instagram for their friends and to show the world that there is another iran it s not an easy place to live but it s their home. but i guess if i walk down the street like this even women would come up to me and complain it s not just the regime that strict not even the police. if a woman saw me in public without a headscarf and she come up to me and ask why i was going about like that oh wow that s the culture that developed after the islamic revolution if you re through. no one is happy with the way things are at the moment. sometimes when we re together we joke with our elders that it s their fault. and they say it s true but this is not the way things were supposed to turn out or that. you know. some of. the club is already planning its next off road tour the next escape from everyday life it s not easy for young people in iran to live their dreams. that our next stop is mashad a bustling city in the northeast of the country one of iran s most significant centers of religious and political power. it s a public holiday the anniversary of the martyrdom of a mom raising a descendant of the islamic prophet muhammad and the eighth shiite in. the shrine is managed by an extremely wealthy religious foundation an institution that wields a lot of power not only in mashad but also on the regime in tehran. oh i. crowds of pilgrims mark the public holiday by visiting the shrine every year sees some twenty seven million devout muslims visit mashad this conservative reactionary city is an unlikely home for a lively underground rock music scene but as we find out appearances can be deceiving. and dishes sound proofed to small sound studio in his parent s house to make sure the outside world doesn t hear what goes on in here. every day. for me being a heavy metal musician in mashad means living in a dead end if so little of everything i do i do purely for myself and it s not for public consumption. i only do it because of the pressure i feel. this is bob but that reinforces my belief in what i m doing. if it weren t for social media we wouldn t be here now we musicians are all connected via the internet. before i met the others on facebook i felt very lonely and lost. but when i realized there were many others in my position i realized i wasn t alone in the contact we have with one another and also a sense of envy and competition is what spurs us on. a jam session with the band out of nowhere in the basement of a tenement block on the city s outskirts someone always keeps watch outside in case the police show up but down here it looks like a band practice anywhere in the world. i normally if you play a while i play c. is that ok for you. there are thousands of rock musicians here in russia many come from middle class families like a. religious hardliners reviled the western rock they play. and they see heavy metal as the devil s work. on money making music usually lots of people think that metal heads worship the devil and that we re satanists of course we re not it and they think our music is aggressive and incitement to violence and from all that s completely wrong because when i look at us metal heads are the most peaceful people you can imagine so. but people have these fixed ideas which is a real shame with us of on. the . i ve seen lots of bands have their work censored for the authorities tell them that if they want to be approved they need to modify what they re doing i see that happening all the time but in the end the artist doesn t feel it s his own song anymore and doesn t want to play it as. our next meeting is with ray s ago harry who s the same ages and. he was just a boy when he decided he wanted to be a cleric. days ago he wears the black turban of the same descendants of the prophet mohammed. he s a cool a servant of the holy shrine of the memories a who works in the soup kitchen and helps visitors to the mosque. and was going to join friends and i are here to provide everyone who visits with a place to find rest and something to eat. the pilgrims have come a long way and are thirsty and often hungry. they come to my shot out of love and devotion to him on raising. we live here i see it is my duty to serve these people as a. by the judge for they move. on the anniversary of him raises martyrdom has gripped by religious fervor his followers engage in archaic rituals flagellating themselves with chains to mimic his suffering. young men carry the heavy ensign of. memories are staggering under its weight. had i. was even if these martyrs are dead that we can reach out to them. they are here and that there is much we can ask of the a mom s great spirits that good to give and they can fulfill our requests because they rule over the universe that means that boy john said that is what the shia believe in the convoy they have a mission a job many of us come to the a mom s mausoleum to reach out to his spirit and to show respect is missing here by then issuing death. praise or go harry s lives in studies in the amman raise a shrine complex. it encompasses a mosque and the muslim seven courtyards a seminary and islamic university libraries and seminar rooms. i go myself i m going to when we re unable to change the minds of young people who do not share our faith then we organize events specifically for them so as not to lose contact with them just as we offer them jobs taking photos or video recording events or working as drivers we do it to make sure we keep in touch with them i m pretty sure that even high libya vast battle got automation. but we arrange a meeting between reza go hurry the young cleric and under a rock musician and they re both twenty seven they both grew up in mashad. but the two in have a completely different worlds and couldn t be more different still they talk to each other as openly as the constraints of iranian society allow. for thirty years for you so long all sorts of musicians perform here in the park issue but when we apply for a comment we re timed out and we. usually on the grounds of the way we look because the authorities think will intimidate people what s your opinion which. sometimes you might meet a cleric who doesn t even know all the rules of his own religion let alone how musicians such as yourself think. and that s the problem for us that we know far too little about one another so there s instant animosity and. one reason why there are so many hard rock and heavy metal musicians in mashad is the pressure we face. i m always being told what i m not allowed to do i need to write songs to express how i feel and so do many others. and that s the basic principle of rock and metal the more pressure there is the more explosive the reaction. to news the music is rooted in the human problems social suffering these problems can t be ignored. i can t just grabbed on to shape by the collar and order him to get over these problems. that s not how it works. for the sharpness all i ve got there are not many like raised. another cleric would have had very different things to say that was the rule for this the idea that we might all sit down together and talk about ways to improve things is absurd. given the current circumstances it just wouldn t happen hamas militia show. at the fault and. the two men are unlikely to resolve their differences and will most likely never meet again. and. move the huts one isn t. you know i m sure i want to spend the rest of my life in mashad at one point i ll leave but that doesn t mean i ll forget my home i ll come back one day and work in the cultural sector and music or something similar. weapons against or maybe i ll open a music school. but only once i ve gained experience elsewhere i will. show it is a city steeped in both religious devotion and social despair a city that at once repels its children and embraces them. we leave mashad in the north and head south to homo s island in the persian gulf. u.s. sanctions against iran have a special significance here it s a place where the country s international problems play out alongside its domestic once. more i m going to formalize was once the most important port along the maritime stretch of the silk road the island is on the threshold between east and west and used to be beautiful and wealthy whoever controlled hormones island controlled the seas the trade routes from india over africa and the suez canal. on other stories wasn t about to. raise a cooler ronnie s sings of love and suffering he grew up in poverty on homo s island then left and went to tehran where he launched a successful career as a musician. but yet. today he and his band are famous in iran but he hasn t forgotten where he came from and often returns home to the persian gulf where the arabian peninsula feels nearer than tehran. here the many cultural. influences of the countries along the silk road are still in evidence. their women wear color and the traditional face masks of arab iranians who live in the coastal regions. but these people are poor they feel forgotten by their government and ignored by the rest of the world you see the. razor uses his celebrity to organize aid projects here on homo s island enlisting the help of other artists from across the country. in. the city to go we have always been very active here but it s not about self promotion we ve organized cultural festivals to attract more tourism to hormuz to provide the locals with an income so they can have enough to eat so that they don t have to resort to smuggling and risking their lives. riza takes us to meet a friend of his family a fisherman. said i was. his generation sacrificed their youth their families for this country they lived through the revolution and the iran iraq war when they came home they wanted to work so they did what they d always done they worked as fishermen and traders. you would. have to rock mine is fifty as a soldier in the one nine hundred eighty s. he was the victim of a chemical attack along with thousands of others he still suffers from the consequences today. because his medical file was lost he can t claim any kind of state support. that. if i hadn t been wounded in the fighting there would have been a prisoner of war i would be better off now then i would at least get a monthly pension. the state would have given me a house my chilled. and would have work instead we have nothing the children of freed prisoners of war have senior positions we don t we re doing the same hard work we did before. the. family are preparing a special dinner for raising and the visitors from german television. because it s such a special occasion the women are cooking over the wood fire outside but at the gas stove in the kitchen. they ve served up a feast spicy rice with lentils and prawns fried fish and fresh salad. with their here and foremost we re sitting on the biggest natural gas reserves in the world but the people here have nothing gas from formalises transported to carom on terror and tabriz. you the whole country gets gas from hormones you know but here on the island there aren t even any pipelines people like up dollar a month myself and others are forced to take gas cylinders to filling stations and carry them home on our backs so that the women can cook you know. it s not as though that was going on where they were for. as children they would always run off when their mothers wanted to send them to get gas. the cylinders were so heavy. oh no dear residents of hormuz the price of gas is going up. there is none for now . please do not knock. sometimes there s no gas for a whole month if the weather is stormy and the ships can t sail it s especially bad in winter. that is the one where that s what life is like here the mother. didn t go for. bush no gas but at least there s time to chat and grumble about the sorry state of affairs. she. left to run on works day and night to ensure he catches enough to feed his family. his son can t get married he tells us because the family can t afford to pay for the wedding. and he has no idea what will happen when he s too old to work so a lot of their fishing has taken a turn for the worse in recent years the seas are over fish to because three years ago the chinese were awarded industrial fishing licenses fish and shrimp stocks have fallen dramatically as a result. of. the rock mine couldn t live from fishing alone so he began ferrying goats and fabrics to the arabian peninsula and smuggling cigarettes back to iran. eventually he was caught and served a lengthy jail sentence for smuggling they arrest a few poor people and then brand everyone in the south as smugglers of course smuggling is an issue but now there are sanctions against the oil trade and life will become even harder people here need to look after themselves and think about the future we have to come up with something. very well so one of them will be. but fishing is the only job he s ever known. he only sells the best of the catch and keeps the rest for his family. today he sells just two hundred fifty grams of king prawns. today was terrible. i ve even had to pay for fuel out of my own pocket. but still i m grateful. if the government would pay a bit more attention to this rage that a miracle could happen. i m serious. people here in the south are very hospitable despite the poverty. there is amazing heritage here and they look after it well. that s something that s wonderful and rare joy. but the iranian government is more interested in the strait of hormuz a short sea corridor between iran and oman of major strategic significance. one third of global oil production passes through it every day. shipments that tehran could block if it so wished. the. decades of isolation and the controversy over iran s nuclear program have also left their mark on is fun the most popular tourist site in iran. the historic city on the edge of the desert is known as the pearl of persia. one hundred square is unesco world heritage site and draws visitors from all over the world. the carpet store owned by the huggy family is a local landmark. of clothing and we ve been decorating our floors with carpets for centuries. but they re more than decorative. carpets play a big role in our lives and babies are born on them and we sleep on them. life unfolds on persian rugs even if these days we sit on chairs and eat at tables . before the revolution this where was teeming with tourists as far as the eye could see it was a bustling place. but it s not like that anymore i don t want to be negative but i have happy memories of those times i wish things would change. in the past the famous people from all over the world would visit the square with their entourages . they would put barricades up around the square and there would be public celebrations. nothing like that has happened for ages. i wish the country would open its doors to the world again. the huggy family has been hand knotting persian carpets for one hundred twenty years their customers have included kings and presidents. faisal know how he is a master of his craft before he begins making a carpet he first sketches a design on paper. his workshop is just around the corner from nash. now seventy six has worked together with mr for the car for fifty years they ve been friends since their school days. this is what we want to. be for the carpet is not it the designers create what s called a cartoon a sort of rugged map on paper. each square represents a single not. we used paint and brushes and calculate each individual not to do that if we mark exactly how many knots and which color will be knotted her rogue. the secret of a good carpet is mathematics. next door the next generation is hard at work they are not using paper and paint brushes but touch screens and digital pens. sons are also carpet designers carpet making has traditionally been a male dominated industry but he s also training a young woman. this way color can be corrected with one simple click but it s still meticulous work. even on the computer each individual not has to be marked. whether the designs are drawn up on paper or the computer screen they end up to sectored into pieces and stuck on wood to be used as a reference by the rather daughters in the workshop. and with. this one will be forty square metres. eight by five. it s a work of art. because it s a work of art i can t name a price. it s only when it s finished and is appraised by experts that a price will be set. it s one of a pair the first is already finished. the women have been working on them for two years. i think they ll need another seven or eight months. and according to the book if you want to be successful you must be creative. that s what i tell young people that s what i tell my students all the co here is a very talented she ll be qualifying as a master crafts woman soon but it may give the. twentieth another day but in time as i grew up in a family of doctors lawyers and engineers to begin with they didn t want me to study art but once i graduated from school all of a sudden they let me later i found out that my grandmother had argued my case she was very interested in kaput she died when i was still in my first year of my studies in the us. i think of her every day when i work here i count on one housemate. phrase all hugging he has three sons they all studied abroad computer technology architecture art and design. but they all came home to carry on the family tradition they learned from their father and develop their own styles these days their designs are on sale in the shop the most valuable rug is worth thirty thousand euros and was made by faisal a huggy himself it boasts one hundred forty knots per square metre and is made of fine silk it s beautiful but he hasn t found a buyer. by the in quite a hotel room after president trump imposed sanctions sixty percent of the people in this industry lost their jobs at the club we re no longer allowed to export our carpets we can t trade abroad. mr trump thinks he s fighting our government but all he still. going is destroying the livelihoods of normal people. and then he s so proud of himself and what he thinks he s achieving. things all huggy says thinking about iran s economic plight makes him sad. he goes out to his pomegranate orchard whenever he can it revives his spirits here he can recover his optimism that his children and his country might one day have a brighter future for. the pomegranate it is a wonderful fruit look how close the seeds are to one another. just like the people of iran with my common ground it is sweet inside but the skin is bitter like our current economic situation. but it s important we stick together and really we are very warm hearted be able to this nanny. a. little. closer. closer. look at the name of. reliable data in the gulf. news 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