the prospect of another election, after parties failed to reach agreement on a return to power sharing. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the commander of iran s powerful revolutionary guards has warned protesters that saturday would be their last day of taking to streets. iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22 year old kurdish woman mahsa amini in police custody last month. today s serious warning follows the fatal shooting of a protester in the iranian city of zahedan. activitsts say security forces fired on dozens of people as they left friday prayers in the southern city. robin brant reports. six weeks in, and these protests show no sign of abating. the opposite, in fact. this is zahedan, the scene of violent confrontation again. independent observers claiming the cracked on by security forces the crackdowon by security forces across iran and killed at least 160 people and the tactics continue to be unbearably indiscrimin
My guest is shaharzad akbar, former chairperson of afghanistans independent human rights commission. What would morally acceptable engagement look like . Shaharzad akbar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its good to be here. Its good to have you here. If i may, im going to start with some powerful words of yours. You wrote recently, i spend every day with a fire burning in my heart with the pain of injustice that women in my country face. Of course, since the taliban takeover, youre no longer living in your homeland. Youre living here in the uk. Does that actually, in a funny sort of way, intensify the pain you feel . Absolutely. I mean, every day i feel like im living two different realities at the same time. I wake up in oxford, where im a visiting scholar and its green and beautiful and people are going on about their lives. And then im all day long following the situation back home, talking to colleagues, monitoring the human rights violations. And during the day, several times, i h
The Ministry Of Defence has confirmed to the bbc that it will provide the support of armed soldiers to the metropolitan police, after a large number of Firearms Officers handed in their weapons. They turned in their firearms permits after an armed officer was charged with the murder of 24 year old chris kaba who was shot and killed in south london last year. Earlier, the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, ordered a review of armed policing. Youd only expect to see the army on The Streets Of London after a terror attack. But after the decision of 100 Police Officers to hand in their firearms, they are on stand by. Suella braverman called for a review of policing. The head of police said the system was not set up to help officers succeed. He said officers needed sufficient Legal Protection to do theirjob. I needed sufficient Legal Protection to do theirjob. To do their ob. I was on armed to do theirjob. I was on Armed Resnonse for to do theirjob. I was on armed response for 23 to do their
return to sunshine this afternoon. the sun trine holds on longest across northern scotland, some rain in southern scotland and northern ireland, heavy showers in wales, but the midlands, east anglia and the south east will feel warm. 22 degrees, very mild wherever you are. the rain slowly clears overnight tonight, heavy bursts in the first half of the night, more showers rattling in from the south west overnight as the breeze picks up. it is mild again, 10 111. the clocks go back an hour during the early hours of sunday morning, so some die, sunshine and showers, heavy in the north and west with blustery winds, clearing away from the south east to leave sunshine. so sunday. 13 17, goodbye for now. this hello, this is bbc news. the headlines.
high profile person on twitter s banned list former us president donald trump. one for the moderation council, but some investors are known to be keen. to really be a truly free platform i know everybody hates donald trump, including me, but free speech is about many things we don t like, and many of the things trump might say might actually be really harmful to trump, so i think this sort of fear of letting people on the platform is exactly why we need to protect speech. 0h, great shot! speaking to fox news, donald trump of course had his own view. he wished elon musk lots of luck, but said twitter couldn t succeed without him. zoe kleinman, bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather. hello, afairamount hello, a fair amount of cloud and outbreaks of rain so far today, the rain moving north and east across the uk, and some of us will see a