we will start in iran. politicians in iran are insisting that wearing headscarfs should be enforced rigorously they re demanding that judges enforce the law. across the country, a growing number of women are going out without hijabs in public. joining here with me is parham ghobadi from bbc persian service. just talk us through what is happening right now. why are authorities cracking down now? because of what we see is happening today in iran is that many women in big cities like tehran and other major cities, theyjust walk big cities like tehran and other major cities, they just walk around on the streets without headscarves and without hijab. without hijab, not only headscarves, for four decades iranian women had to wear to walk in the streets. now we see especially young women walking on the streets without any sort of hijab and iranian politicians and iranian dutch mic that has frustrated iranian hardliners. so the regime rigid regime is a a difficult position becaus
the day after a north korean missile flew over japan the u.s. and south korea test fire a number of missiles in response, but not all of it went as planned. liz truss will soon speak at . live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. it is good to have you with us. former u.s. president donald trump is asking the supreme court to intervene in one of his latest legal woes. lawyers for the former president filed an emergency request on tuesday. it centered on a dispute with the justice department over a trove of classified documents seized from his mar-a-lago estate. reporter: former president trump s legal team asking the supreme court to step in to this ongoing saga over the documents taken from mar-a- lago. s lawyer filing an emergency request asking the justices to once again let the special master reviewing all of these documents seized, regain access specifically to the 100 classified documents. if the special master were to get access, that wou
special master and that has turned out to back fire on him. when we were locked out it was something like a war zone. it s going to hit home. it s going to be emotional when they see their properties up close. everything that you see is being contested by the ukrainians. the russians have completely dropped any pretexts that this is going well. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is wednesday, october 5th, 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. it s been a week since hurricane ian slammed into florida and u.s. president joe biden is expected to visit hard-hit fort myers in the coming hours. he ll meet with governor ron desantis, fema and officials to assess the damage there. meanwhile, florida residents are returning. it will be a difficult transition for those who call the island home. what they ll see is really an up close look at destruction that they ve seen from the video clips on the news and some other ph
ian now stands at 109. all but four of them in western flo florida. today people who evacuated from sanibel islandone of the hardest hit in the state, will be allowed to return to survey their losses. it s going to hit home. it s going to be emotional when they see their properties up close and the amount of damage that this storm inflicted upon them. more now from cnn s carlos suarez. he is in fort myers. reporter: the need for help in florida, immediate. at one food distribution site in north fort myers, the line of cars grew by the hour. the cajun navy foundation on the ground in florida for days handing out crucial supplies for residents without basic services. we got diapers. i know there s water, food. reporter: thousands so far have been rescued from destroyed or flooded homes with harrowing stories of survival. i got pushed away and went around the building and i was able to find some bushes. i grabbed onto it. pulled myself in. halfway in. and i just stay