Stories later this hour, but first we want to bring you a special report. Women in iran have told the bbc how their online activity has been spied on by the authorities, leading to arrests, threats and beatings. Their testimonies come two years after the woman, life, Freedom Protests ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini in Police Custody after she was arrested for wearing the mandatory hijab loosely. Bbc verify Reporter Reha Kansara reports. A warning, this report includes distressing accounts of violence. Chanting i took off my hijab and didnt even wear it as a shawl around my neck. I didnt care to hide who i am or where the photo was taken. I wanted to say we exist. Chanting in 2022, anti government protests swept over iran after the death of a young woman in custody. The Protesters Battle Cry women, life, freedom resounded across the world. But two years on, Irans Government continues to clamp down evolving surveillance for a new era of digital resistance. Arresting thousands of prot
Birthday, North Korea. Hope you remember to get them something nice. North korea traces its founding to This date in 1948. And so today was full of palpably terrified North Korean citizens marching through the streets dressed identically, Doing Synchronized things with s flags and banners all pledging loyalty until death to the third generation of totalitarian dictators who have ruled that country since its founding in 1948. The cult of personality that undergirds the North Korean dictatorship involves the worship of the kim family as gods on earth. Today, on the occasion of North Koreas birthday, the chinese president , Xi Jinping and the president of russia, Vladimir Putin, sent warm congratulations to North Korea. Warm congratulations to kim jongun, praising his dictatorship, promising Closinga Relations and cooperation in the future. And at some level, maybe the Birthday Card from China And Russia for North Korea makes d sense. I mean, both China And Russia do border North Korea, a
Thanksgiving dinner there. You know plenty of people could fit it s true i gotta say, having been in the mix for so many debates and so many different ways that you have worked, are you actually looking forward to it tomorrow or are you bracing yourself? both. I think i can t stop thinking about the fact that they have never met in person. And there s so many dynamics to i also as a fellow prepper, i admire that about the vice president. But it also means you need to prepare and then be agile, so i just think that will be interesting to watch. Re and how does she deal with the trump s of it all? so both, bracing and also interested. How about you? i mean, i feel like coming out f of the most consequential presidential debate that has everal happened in u. S. History. Every. Playing the odds means this should be a normal one, right? boring maybe. Nothingor about this campaig isbo boring or normal. I don t know. I feel like we re all just sort of ready for everything. Ready for anything.
Outside. Them widespread rainfall moves in for early next week. We are looking at sunshine this afternoon after all of that rainfall with our atmospheric river. Just to show you the dry conditions. A beautiful view. You can see that snowfall out there over Mount Hamilton and some blue skies as well. Over san francisco. You can see that sunshine. As we head through the day, we are looking at some sunshine. High temperatures in the low to mid 50s. We did pick up a lot of rainfall with this atmospheric river. The santa cruz mountains. About 2 1 2. Up to 3 1 2 inches of rainfall. Tracking our next weather system. I will let you know when we can expect to see this where you live coming up. Monitoring a couple of big news conferences. First lets go live down to san jose right now where it is a couple of unfortunate milestones. They just surpassed 100,000 cases of the coronavirus. Is mall is the first cases. Right now, santa cruz officials are about to provide some updates regarding vaccine d
Sky. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im dion lim. That building is located right in the heart of Downtown Berkeley on university avenue. We have new details, tonight, about the challenge firefighters faced and the scramble to get those nearby to safety. Matt boone joins us live where fire crews are still hard at work. Matt. Good evening, dion. Yeah. As you can see, behind me, firefighters still blasting water onto the sevenstory Apartment Building under construction. This is at university, right in the heart of berkeley and its been burning for hours, likely causing significant damage to this building. Just after 6 00, flames erupted. Watched it literally go up. Reporter he saw from his apartment, across the street. Whats going on . Check the window and all you see it flame up. Reporter his comfort did not last long, as firefighters came door to door. He managed to take his dog, apollo, but forgot his mask. Firefighters say no other structures were burned. Though, th