he was saying exactly so the problem with mr rouhani is economic policies as they have been the liberal so they have not been really wanting to address the social question that is quite huge in iran you have almost half of the iranian population that lives around the poverty line so and this has been not within the interest of the romney government to tackle with on the other hand we have the right wing conservatives and populists who pretends to be caring about poor iranians lives but in reality when they assume you know powerful positions they do not engage in the distribution of wealth that would be beneficial to larger sections of society so basically both sides are to blame for this problem for this socio economic malaise that iran is finding itself and also the chance for many of the protests this reflects this this criticism of these of you all factions of the iranian regime and certainly. i mean you listen to what mr jordan so who basically saying you cannot fairly lay the blame just on the harley because only porton chunk of the economy has historically been under the control o

rouhani has said about these protests? it is quite different compared to the tone of the iran government in 2009, when it quickly and brutally clamped down on the protest. what is happening now is that rouhani is taking a quite different position, essentially back knowledge and that people have legitimate grievances, acknowledging that they have a right to protest, and then focusing instead on pushing back against some of the violence and some of the looting. that is probably not going to sit down very well with some of the hardliners, mindful of the fact that the slogans have been quite harsh and very much targeting the regime as a whole, including chance of death to the dictator and death to the supreme leader. so, it seems like the protests are also being used as a political instrument by the political instrument by the political factions to score points against each other. from the point of view of president rouhani, there's not a lot you can offer the protesters at least in the short—term, given that economics, risi

promises that rouhani gave in terms of the revitalization of trade with the outside world being trickling down to the normal iranians has not materialized so very early on we've seen a lot of frustration from the lower and middle strata of society visibly those failed economic policies and so there was a simmering. low the surface simmering discounting below the surface that is now going you know there is a merging on the other hand when it comes to political repression also things have not improved so basically there are both socio economic and political in cases that we go to mr. dearie in mr no dearie it's a movement which is building up momentum and a cross iran people are saying enough is enough but what we've seen is that a government is so in some sort of denial about what's happening saying these are just a bunch of people trying to destabilize iran world cup absolutely spot on i think the government actually prefers to look the other way because probably they. is to to fix the economy the sorry state of affairs in the country by signing a nuclear deal with the p five plus one gro

i wonder what rouhani is thinking right now. i think, as we heard earlier, it won't be a surprise of the security forces come out and crack down, and that might disburse as it did in 2009. but rouhani, who fancied himself as the next iranians supreme leader, a different kind of leader, the iranian people are speaking loudly against him, saying he has failed them. what is the alternative model that these demonstrators would like to see in place of president rouhani and clerical rule was back and crucially, would it do anything to improve their current living conditions? —— and clerical rule? and crucially... the average person knows that the revolution comes with risks. they know what is happening in the neighbourhood. they know what happened in egypt, libya and syria, and they are watching places like iraq and afghanistan, where you don't have security, and they don't wa nt don't have security, and they don't want that. at the same time, they are fed up with the islamic republic, now 40 years into its existence, promising ch

the iranian president hassan rouhani breaks his silence on the anti-government protests sweeping cities across the country earlier the government blocked social media sites and threatened a crackdown will take a closer look at rouhani as an initial reaction. and welcome to the program the world is ringing in the new year and australians were among the first to celebrate with the annual fireworks display in sydney harbor now as the new year sweeps across the globe were seen as celebrations in the greek capital athens. and earlier people fear. or that there would be little to celebrate as the city was jolted by an earthquake fortunately no damage was done and no one was hurt. relief and celebrations in athens this hour and meanwhile the german capital berlin people are heading to the party of the year at the brandenburg gate and our very own rebecca riggers is there you know for work purposes rebecca the crowds are expected tonight and they're expecting a massive show what can they expect. absolutely i mean it's one out of gun people that the money is really getting started down here the

and threatened a crackdown will take a closer look at rouhani initial reaction and. in her new year's address german chancellor angela merkel tells the nation of the world will not wait for germany. in full. and welcome to the program the world is ringing in the new year as it sweeps across the globe and every big city is vying to put on the largest fireworks display australians were among the first to celebrate with the annual spectacular in sydney harbor there was a rainbow theme this year to mark the legalization of same sex marriage not to be outdone hong kong's display had shooting stars flying off the skies along more than a kilometer of waterfront of victoria harbor even north korea got in on the at. with the display in the capital pyongyang will be following the new year as across the globe here on the w.b. would. come good. about it from the government. here in the german capital berlin preparations are underway to host a massive new year's celebration at the iconic brandenburg gate and somewhere in that crowd is our very own correspondent rebecca for back g

i wonder what rouhani is thinking right now. it will not be a surprise if the security forces come out and they will crack down and this might just disburse the way it did in 2009. but someone like hassan rouhani who fancied himself as a supreme leader, the iranian people are speaking loudly against him saying he has failed them. what is the alternative model that these demonstrators would like to see in place of president rouhani and clerical rule and, crucially, would it do anything to improve their current living conditions? one of the things that is really clear is that your average iranian knows that a revolution comes with the risks. they know what is happening in the neighbourhood. they know what happened in egypt's, libya, syria, they are watching at what is happening in iraq and afghanistan. they do not want that. at the same time, they are fed up with the islamic republic, almost 40 years into its existence, promising reform but not delivering. the iranian people who remember what happened in 1939, remember that in 197

president has done rouhani earlier broke his silence on the demonstrations. one point must be made clear to everyone we are a free nation according to the constitution of the rights of the people such as completely free to criticize or even to protest. however we should also be mindful that criticizing and protesting should be done constructively so that it will result in improvements for the country and yes people have economic problems and social issues. arose. earlier we spoke to a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph in tehran we asked him whether president rouhani will now try to close ranks with the hardliners in his regime some of whom had welcomed the outbreak of these protests that it is something that you know that's how upset the hardliners. is that. it's wrong for a long time and. there are some groups that they hope to start this route as. somewhat shocked by how quickly speculated it grew out are. already the most brutal moderate hardline factions to go to sorry. to revolutionaries some of those have to they've got to stick to. their on the jets mor

in berlin are planning to welcome him twenty eight team also coming up the iranian president hassan rouhani makes his first comments on the government protests sweeping cities across the country earlier the government backed social media blocks of social media sites and threaten the crackdown will take a closer look at ronnie's reaction. welcome to the program the world is ringing in the new year as it sweeps across the globe every big city is to put on the biggest fireworks display australians were among the first celebrates the new year with their annual spectacular sydney harbor and a rain. over the years which marked the legalization of same sex marriage and australia but not to be outdone hong kong's display was shooting stars flying off the skyscrapers and more than a kilometer of waterfront it for tory harbor even north korea. with a display in the capitol hill and don. just fireworks this time the styles will be following the new year as it crosses the globe here on d w. yeah and here in the german capital berlin preparations are already underway they host a massive new year's celeb

iranian president hassan rouhani makes his first comments on the anti-government protests sweeping cities across the country earlier the government blocked social media sites and threatened a crackdown will take a closer look at rouhani initial reaction and. and welcome to the program the world is ringing in the new year and australians world among the first to celebrate with the end you will fireworks spectacular in sydney harbor now as the new year sweeps across asia and into the middle east we're seeing the celebrations in dubai in the united arab emirates the city has replaced fireworks with a laser show on the world's tallest tower the burj khalifa the most other cities have stuck with fireworks from hong kong to beijing and tokyo to bangkok are following all the new year celebrations as they cross across the globe right here. as we wait for midnight to strike here in berlin we're looking to the iconic brandenburg gate or preparations and even some celebrations are already underway correspondent rebecca reuters is in the thick of things rebecca it's good to see you massive crowds are

draws some succoui’ at president rouhani draws some succour for them at president rouhani draws some succourfor them in some at president rouhani draws some succour for them in some way? as i said, originally the movement started in the city of mashhad. this is the city where president rouhani's main rival has substantial political and financial influence and power. in that time, a lot of people in a sort of managed protest movement by the government. and some even suggested that perhaps the revolutionary guards were behind it. it seems to be whatever the intention was of the movement, now they have incurred a new phase and nobody knows where this movement goes precisely because there is no clear central leadership. unlike the iranian revolution in 19 seven in a, which had a leader in khamenei. there was a leader and a specific goal in mind. the protest movement now does not seem to have any of those. this, ithink, is the greatest challenge those who are opposing the islamic republic are facing. but do not underestimate the repressive capability of the revolutionary guards and the re

is this focused on president rouhani? is this focused on the ayatollah and the islamic revolutionary guard? where is there consensus of the dissatisfaction? >> reporter: look. i think one of the interesting things about this protest, victor, it seems to be focused on the entire power structure. if you can say it's focused at all. because this seems to have more from something as goldnar saying it might have been started by hardliners to criticize the president rouhani but seems to have turned into something that is a lot more than that. two things really stand out. the protests, themselves, aren't necessarily large but they are widespread in many areas of iran, not only in the large cities, but also in smaller towns as well. that seems to indicate that there is wider discontent in many places in the entire country that certainly has a root and economic factors but seems to go beyond that as well. the other interesting thing is what we were also pointing out is that it doesn't only seem to be directed at one or the other p

hassan rouhani appears on television, to say people have the right to protest — but that his country's problems stem from international sanctions. firefighters tackle a huge blaze at liverpool arena — the fire broke out in the multi—storey car park. divers recover the bodies of six people — four believed to be british — who died when a sightseeing plane crashed in australia. manchester city's 18 game—winning run in the premier league comes to an end. and new year's celebrations get underway around the globe, as we prepare to welcome in 2018. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. as anti—government protestors in iran have gathered for fourth day of demonstrations, the country's president, hassan rouhani, has said iranians have the right to protest, but not resort to violence and vandalism. his comments are the first by a senior figure in the country since widespread protests began on thursday. today, police in tehran used water cannon against protesters and some social media was banned. kasra naji of the bbc persian service has this report. the centre of tehran du

hello thank you for joining us iranian president hassan rouhani has spoken for the first time since widespread protests began in the islamic republic his comments in comments published on sunday he said that people have the right to protest but those demonstrations should not make the public feel concerned about their lives and security ronnie also criticize the u.s. president donald trump over his tweets about the protests saying he has. and that he had called the ring of people terrorists a few months ago. it should be clear to everyone that we are people of freedom according to the constitution and citizens' rights people are free to express their criticism and to protest however we need to pay attention to the manner of my criticism and protest should be in such a way that it will lead to be improvement of the people and the state. as well that statement from loni comes a social media apps including the messaging service telegram which has forty million users in iran have been temporarily blocked as the government tries to stop details being spread about the upcoming protests for three day

president rouhani has the government and there isa rouhani has the government and there is a deeper state in iran and there is a deeper state in iran and there is also the hardliners. but the meeting he has had has been better than expected, the range of meetings he had with officials and more importantly, he met with the secretary of iran's supreme national security council who speaks for the establishment in iran in a sense. so that meeting was probably the most important meeting in a sense that council can overrule the iranian judiciary, for example, over the case, if they need to do that. but don't forget that there is this huge amount of money that iran is owed by britain. britain has got the money, the money is ready to be paid to iran but they have to find a way because there are sanctions against iran still, putting barriers in the way of paying that money. there is discussion about the interest of that half a billion dollars worth of money that iran was owed before the revolution, before 1979 and that money is one of the key issues that have to be resolved, i suppose, before all

he said people we re president rouhani. he said people were free to criticise his government, but there should be no violence. he knows the anger in the streets is dangerous. the wave of protests represents the most serious that iran's leadershi- has challenge that iran's leadership has faced for years. alan johnston public bbc news. afshin molavi is an expert in middle eastern politics and is a senior fellow at the foreign policy institute atjohns hopkins university. thank you forjoining us. can i ask you first of all about the iranian government's move to restrict social media use — what effect is that likely to have when it comes to these protests? well, i think it will certainly have an effect. after all social media is like a telegram, about half of the population who use the apps accords telegram, it has become part of the daily life of iran, it is where you share photos and jokes but increasingly it is where people are mobilising political protests. but it is also worth noting that we should not overstate twitter,

iranian president hassan rouhani has spoken for the first time since widespread protests began in the islamic republic he supported people's right to protest but warned against violence saying the public shouldn't feel concerned about their lives and security but government has temporarily blocked social media apps including the messaging app telegram to stop details being spread about upcoming protests now for three days there have been rallies across the country against the clerical elite who the protesters blame for economic hardship and alleged corruption the government is warning of a crackdown if the protests continue on saturday night two people were killed in the city of delude other there is confusion over who is responsible for the deaths peter sharp has more. after four days of anti-government demonstrations it's the president's first public reaction and trod carefully iranians have the right to protest but that can't lead to violence he said. it should be clear to everyone that we are people of freedom according to the constitution and citizens' rights people are free to e

iranian president hassan rouhani has spoken for the first time since widespread protests began in the islamic republic while supporting people's general right to demonstrate he warned violence would not be tolerated as the public shouldn't quote feel concerned about their lives and security this comes as the government has temporarily blocked social media including the messaging app telegram to stop details. spread about upcoming protests for three days now there have been rallies across the country against the clerical elite who they blame for economic hardship and alleged corruption the government is warning of a crackdown if the protests continue on saturday night two people were killed in the city of the ruled out though there is confusion over who was responsible for the bets peter sharp reports. of the four days of anti-government demonstrations it's the president's first public reaction trawled carefully iranians have the right to protest but that can't lead to violence he said. it should be clear to everyone that we are people of freedom according to the constitution and citiz

so it was a warning from president rouhani against these people. but this is the past, really. we have moved forward in the sense that demonstrations have got a lot bigger than any of these people expected. the whole regime is under question. people are out on the streets calling for the mullahs to go. they don't want the regime of mullahs. they want the regime to step down. they want the regime to step down. they want the regime to step down. they want iran to stop spending money on wars in places like iraq, yemen, and spend money inside iran. they want political prisoners freed. so it has become very political.m there a generational thing here? many of those in the regime date back to 79 and the revolution and the period immediately afterwards. but the population of iran is much younger on average. of course the population is much younger. and things have moved on since 1979 and the revolution. but iran remains a revolutionary state. who claims the street is still very important, as you see today. today, there are government—sponsored demonstrations. basically, the idea is

that rouhani appears to have the right policies in place but is the attitude of his government that really riles up the people this is a very elitist government they are bureaucratic elites that technocratic police they they are very distant from the grievances of ordinary people and frankly some of the attitudes for example some of the leading ministers and parliamentarians some of the things that have said recently and it's come up and social media for instance one m.p. was recently complaining about his low salary and saying that when he was a university professor used to get paid almost double and hardly did any work for it is really royals are ordinary people who are struggling right now from the economic point of view so is the attitude of government ministers officials the problem in terry is there's the real problem here not necessarily the policies that rouhani has put in place in order to turn the economy around. let's move on to other news now and footage has emerged from syria showing children being rescued from the damascus suburb of east and go there following airstrik

are overshadowed by the country's largest wave of unrest since two thousand and nine and president rouhani urges protesters to stay peaceful. also in the headlines on r.t. austria's new chancellor calls for a rethink of the e.u. refugee policy saying migrant quotas will not solve the crisis. started broadcasting live director our studios in moscow in two thousand and eighteen already this is r t international and we're certainly glad to have you with us now russia's eleven time zones have now seen in the new year a couple of hours ago the fireworks went off over st basil's cathedral and the kremlin has been following all the action on red square for us i'm here in the heart of moscow right outside of red square and thousands of people have gathered here tonight to ring in the new year and see the fireworks display. and it was amazing and of course not just here in the center of the city where people are gathering and celebrating this points all around that are having the fireworks displays and everything because here and russia new year's is the biggest celebration of the year families get

government but the problem is that it's deep rooted rouhani in fact has managed to establish the economy to some extent after the nuclear agreement in two thousand and fifteen but is still inflation is high unemployment for the youth is at forty percent no he has not managed to know fully improve the state operate in a commonly mainly because armories sanctions are still in place by the us there are still has problems accessing the european banks for example so he has been successful it makes them but not really you know you have to remember earlier this year was elected by about twenty five million iranians. but he's definitely facing a big challenge. sade's kelly dagon in london thank you for the us thank you egypt's coptic christians are in mourning after another attack by suspected islamic extremists authorities say eight worshippers and a police officer were killed in a gun fight when an attacker attempted to break through security at the church in cairo suburb the so-called islamic states has claimed responsibility in the past year it has killed dozens of christians and church bomb

i was going to so we could be in for a fall right on the rest around the country president how son rouhani who has been notably absent throughout this period is due to give an address the nation at a time clock. and really interesting to see what he says in a bid to calm down tensions which seem to be running slightly out of control. as he said these protests began on economic issues on the cost of living issues are. quite virulent and slogans and some fun to listen and some violence and different parts yet there's some notion that the hard line elements in this regime were happy to see these protests happen at first in that they would discredit rouhani do you expect him to to close ranks with with the other side of things in the government tonight. well that is something that a few on the lists have said the hard line is how economy is. to run it for a long time and. there are some groups that they hope to start the initial protests that were somewhat shocked by how quickly those escalated it grew out. i mean house already see the more truth more water hardline factions turin to go referr

elements in this regime were happy to see these protests happen at first in that they would discredit rouhani do you expect him to to close ranks with with the other side of things in the government tonight. well that is something that a few analysts have said the hard line is how economy is. to be run it for a long time and. there are some groups that they hope to start the initial protests that were somewhat shocked by how quickly those escalated it grew out. and we have seen already see more truth more moderate hardline factions touring to go referring to the band council revolutionaries some are but also have to make a distinction. there are legitimate economic grievances everybody agrees that. wanting to make sure the separate those people from people who are pushing for wider disorder. violence against the system itself that seems like a very fine line to walk especially when the rhetoric is saying that protesters will pay the price for their actions of what kind of response are you expecting in the coming days. so far they are to softly approach. the whole western town with the two pro

it was a warning from president rouhani against these people. but this is the past really. we have moved forward in the sense that the demonstrations have got a lot bigger than any these people expected. the whole regime is under question. people are on the streets calling for the mullahs to go. they wa nt calling for the mullahs to go. they want the supreme leader to step down. they want iran not to spend money on wars abroad like in syria, yemen, iraq or in southern lebanon in support of haspolat. but to spend money on them inside iran. —— hezbollah. they want political prisoners to be freed. it has become very political. is there a generational issue? many of those in the regime date back to 1979 and the revolution. but the population of iran is much younger. 0n revolution. but the population of iran is much younger. on average. of course. of course the population is much younger. things have moved on since 1979. but iran remains a revolutionary state. who claims the street is still is very important, as you see today. today there is government—sponsored demonstrat

inequality under your president rouhani has increased under his presidency of course he's been reelected under president of and in a judge who i interviewed in tehran i should say inequality fell in his final four years how dangerous is the inequality problem right now under rouhani his policies of privatization in iran and giving more money too. the rich private all agog sooner. there are always political differences each group accuses the other of not doing a good job but this and this is natural during election time and however the truth is that there aren't a lot of differences between rouhani. and party means leadership had to be there on major political policies that's no administration can overrule except for a few limited number of things so the accusations and month slinging between political groups are mostly political been well and not necessarily true yes there are economic difficulties over all the economic situation is good. the middle class make up seventy percent of the country the wealthy class make up twenty percent and the poor make up ten percent but there are societa

it is all a very start article message for president rouhani. train two very different than what we saw during the 2009 green revolution. the protest chants, death to the ayatollah, death to hezbollah the iranian terror group, which so much money has been spent on. >> for a radical messages for protesters. >> president trump weighed in on the deadly protests inside of iran. steve harrigan live from west palm beach with more on what president trump is saying. reporter: jillian, getting close attention from president trump and demonstrators themselves having support. he treated three days in a row on the protest in iran a short time ago writing the following. the people are finally getting wise to stay out of their money being stolen is squandered on terrorism. looks like he will not take it any longer. the u.s.a. watching closely for human rights violations or as for the president scheduled here in florida he plays golf again today. he's played every day except for christmas since he's been down here. also meeting with governor rick scott. the tw

i mean it is challenging the whole regime it's not me it's challenging the rouhani administration because he's is the head of the government but the person with the autumn of power in iran of course is a supreme leader is been there since one thousand eight hundred one thousand eight hundred he's held a job for twenty seven years twenty eight years and really his authority has been challenged in such a scale two thousand and nine was big and this is again big and you know you have to realize that criticizing the supreme leader in iran is a taboo you know he's everybody even of refers to him with a big title diaz so to see the videos we saw tonight for example protestors and some of the citizen clearing to run taking down the image of the ayatollah from the big banners in the streets that's unprecedented so that shows that you know the protests are you know moving from what was an arc of financial great realises. sorest to something political iranian journalist side kamali day on in london thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world authorities in russia have r

so, as we heard there, president rouhani has spoken. what more has he said? he was speaking at the cabinet meeting today, the speech was televised on national television. about an hour ago. he speaks about iranians having the right to protest but not the right to resort to violence and destruction. he says iran is facing many problems according to him, that date back to previous years. this is a reference to years of international sanctions against iran. if you rememberfor the nuclear programme they had. he also added that he expects the government and the people to roll up their sleeves and work together and resolving these issues. my own reading is that these words are unlikely to satisfy many of the protesters who are on the streets tonight. and it is unlikely to calm the situation. how dangerous moment is this will be iranians regime?m is this will be iranians regime?m is pretty serious. it is a threat to the stability of this regime. as we speak we're getting more and more reports and videos of demonstrations up reports and videos of demonstrations up an

the foreign secretary has left iran following a meeting with president hassan rouhani without any deal to free the british woman nazanin zagari—ratcliffe. the brexit secretary has warned that the uk could still refuse to pay its divorce bill if it doesn't get a trade deal with the eu so number one. no deal means that we won't be paying the money. disgraced celebrity publicist max clifford has died in hospital at the age of 7a. he had been serving an eight—year sentence for historical sex offences. students could save thousands of pounds on tuition fees with a proposal for shorter two—year degree courses. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. heavy snow has hit much of the uk, causing disruption to roads, railways and airports. 20 flights have been cancelled at stansted airport — while flights were suspended at luton. a number of motorways have been covered in snow — with police asking people to travel only if absolutely necessary. the heaviest snow has fallen in north wales — amber snow warnings have been issued there. in the midlands and in northern and eastern england.

they can allow president rouhani to carry out some of his promises of social reform, and opening. they can sort of limit the hands of the revolutionary guard investment and businesses, so foreigners and foreign companies can feel more confident investing in iran. they can perhaps scale down their influence in places like syria and lebanon, which has been very costly for iran in terms of sanctions and animosity. but it hasn't been the style and the precedent of the authorities to really listen to what people want and to cave in to their demands. the style a nd and to cave in to their demands. the style and the precedent seems to be to crack down as forcefully as you can, crush it, make sure it does not tip things over, and then wait until the next time that things erupt. and it isa the next time that things erupt. and it is a powderkeg, and sooner or later something will have to give him. thank you very much for your time. in the city, the 100 share index has finished trading for the year, on a record closing high. it ended the day up 7.6% on last year. earlier our business corresp

president rouhani has finally made a comment on the unrest, days after they started, the first iranian leader to do so. he said iranians had a right to protest but not to violence and destruction. he said iran had many problems that dated back to previous years, a reference to years of international sanctions because of its nuclear programme. the wave of demonstrations throughout the country started on thursday here in mashhad in the north—east with what was supposed to be a small protest by the hardliners to criticise the economic policies of the government of president rouhani, something that quickly got out of control. earlier in the day, the government moved to limit access in iran to the internet and to uphiller social media apps like telegram. but in spite of these efforts, more and more videos are being posted on social media, and there has been more violence. here in this western city, for example, where a number of people are reported to have been injured. president rouhani's latest words are unlikely to calm these demonstrators, who are calling for the overthrow of the gove

the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, is due to meet the iranian president, hassan rouhani, this morning on the second day of his visit to the country. he'll continue to press for the release of nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe — the british—irainian aid—worker who's been held prisoner in the country since april 2016. she denies charges of trying to overthrow the iranian government. but she faces the possibility of a further court appearance today after mrjohnson appeared last month to contradict her claim she was on holiday in iran at the time of her arrest. i am sure it will make a difference. i'm sure him being there, him raising her case, him raising her case in the context of lots of other stuff, can only help improve relations. and improved relations can only lead to a better results for us. but i'm not expecting that on monday morning she comes back on the plane. following the meetings in iran is our security correspondent, frank gardner. frank, is it a positive sign that mrjohnson is meeting the president of iran? how much progress can we expect him to make today? i have just to

to politicize the unrest so into iran people are now angry at the administration because president rouhani had promised them to strike a deal with the united states to resolve all the economic problems that was wrong attitude he was already you know warned against giving such big holes to the nation because everyone knew that the united states would not remain loyal to the deal and this happened unfortunately the united states defied all its undertakings under the nuclear deal and the president has failed in meeting you know his promises now people are angry to see that they are angry that he has invested all the country's power and future in the united states loyalty to the deal and they have come to realize that this is not going to happen. austria's new chancellor safe the e.u. is michael into a location quotas are not helping to solve the refugee crisis some are fearing cuz it believes the problem should be handled and in my current home countries migrants who said so for europe don't want to go to bulgaria were hungry they want to go to germany austria sweden they should be held in sa

even rouhani has said that. it's hard to say exactly what's going on right now. >> if i can ask you in terms of one of the reports brought up, this does not seem to have a leader like we saw in 2009 with the so-called green revolution, does that work to the advantage of the government and the authorities that there's not a single person they can round up or does it work in the advantage of the protesters that it remains populus and organic and does not necessarily have one person that can be shut down. >> that's a good question because when the government's having address to clamp down on somebody it's a little bit easier for them to stop it. when it defuses it's harder to stop it but also ples effective. particularly it looks like one reason why they're obviously restricting use of social media is because that's the instrument that people have used to get out to the street. what's not clear to us at this point is how intense this is and also how political it is. obviously it's economic, clearly even president r

talking about pressure, up until now we have not heard from mr rouhani, but we understand we will be hearing from him later tonight. that's the latest news drop. that's all we have at the moment. what is he likely to say? i have no idea. we will have to wait and see. in fact, there was a news item that he would speak today, and then they cancelled that and all the news agencies took back that news item. and now again they have come up with the same thing. it looks as if there is quite a bit of doubt about the effectiveness of his speech. but nevertheless, he is going ahead, it looks like. he has to try and, i suppose, calm the situation rather than provoke the situation. and given the fact that iranians, these anti—government demonstrators, have been denouncing him on the streets in the last few days, i am not sure whether he is in a good place to try and placate the demonstrators, try to calm down these protests. it's notjust him that has been denounced. significantly, we are also hearing criticism of the supreme leader. and there is a question now of when we are likely to see the

now rouhani appears to have the right policies in place but if the attitude of the government really riles up the people this is a very elitist government they are being a cracking elite that technocratic elite they are very distant from the grievances of ordinary people and frankly some of their attitudes for example some of the leading ministers and parliamentarians some of the things that have said recently has come up and social media for instance one m.p. was recently complaining about his low salary and saying that when he was a university professor they used to get almost double and hardly did any work for it really riles up ordinary people who are struggling right now from the economic point of view so is the attitude of government ministers officials and parliamentarians that the real problem here not necessarily the policies which rouhani has put in place in order to turn the economy around the us president donald trump took a matter of leaders on twitter for a second running on friday he tweeted that iranian citizens were fed up with the regime's corruption and the squande

this is what mr rouhani is referring to. the usa is watching closely for human rights violation, said donald trump. and boris johnson human rights violation, said donald trump. and borisjohnson said he was monitoring events closely from the uk. darren bett has the weather. hello there. the worst of storm dylan has now passed. earlier in the day we had peak gusts of 76mph. some big waves, rough seas, some travel disruption as well, but some areas missed all that action and enjoyed some sunshine. today it's been a real mixture. the focus now turns to showers and squally winds in the south—west of england, driving their way along the south coast as those showers get blown into eastern areas over the next few hours. if you are planning to see in the new year, expect some showers around, particularly in northern ireland, western scotland. eastern scotland and north—east england may well be dry. it will not be as windy as it was early on. it will feel quite chilly. we have bands of showers running east across england and wales

rouhani. having told president the anti atomic literature was born out of interaction between some arab states and israel of course there are many here who don't want to be you'll want to call pollution. or risk the relationships they have with both israel and the united states and mohamed and know you are going to keep us posted as this event progresses throughout the day will be getting back to you in the meantime let's cross over now to hood of delamater joins us live from ramallah occupied west bank so ho to king abdullah of jordan said that. there needs to be a practical solution to this and the need to work with international stakeholders how much of an appetite is there for this in ramallah for that. it's not more about appetite is actually about hope and belief and that that could indeed happen i mean whoever you speak to here will tell you that basically they feel the palestinians have been betrayed by absolutely everyone whether it's regional powers or the international community now

in iran overshadowed by the country's largest wave of unrest since two thousand and nine president rouhani urges protesters to stay peaceful. also in the headlines on r.t. austria's new chancellor calls for a raise think of easier refrigerate refugee policy saying quote it is all not helping solve the crisis. very well malcolm and i happy new year you're watching r.t. international with me. where the champagne corks have been popping in the russian capital where the new year is now old one you all hoot you can see behind me the fireworks going off over us and basil's cathedral and the kremlin in the heart of moscow jacqueline vega has been following all the action on but. i'm here in the heart of moscow right outside of red square and thousands of people have gathered here tonight to ring in the new year and see the fireworks display and it was amazing and of course not just here in the center of the city where people are gathering and celebrating those points all around that are having the fireworks displays never think because here and russia new year's is the biggest celebration of the