linking russia to occupied crimea describing it as an act of terrorism. cabinet ministers are urging tories to rally behind prime minister liz truss, to avoid risk of defeat at the next election. now on bbc news, it s time for our world. for the past year, i have been reporting on the most important story of my life. my name is omid montazaeri, and i m a reporterfor bbc persia. this story is about a massacre that took place in my home country, iran. in 1988, the iranian government, led by ayatollah khomeini, ordered thousands of political prisoners to be killed. my father was amongst those killed. i was just two years old. now, for the first time in over 30 years, one of the perpetrators of the killings is on trial, a government official called hamid nouri. this is hamid nouri. he is the first member of the islamic republic ever to stand trial outside iran for atrocities committed in iran. protestors chants. less than 15 hours til verdict and everyone is so anxious. iraj me
england on christmas eve. the victim has been named as 26 year old ellie edwards. a 30 year old man and a 19 year old woman have been arrested. the number of people heading out to the boxing day sales rose compared to last year but footfall remains far below pre pandemic levels. although there are the usual discounts on the high street, households are of course now being squeezed by the high cost of living, as katy austin reports. oxford street in central london filled up as the day went on, as shoppers hunted for bargains. yeah, i always come out. it s my birthday today, so, and i don t think it s as busy as it used to be. it used to be a lot busier before. there are a few discounts? just shops so far are the shops have started giving sales maybe a bit earlier than usual that s what we heard but there are still quite a few discounts. a company that tracks how many people are out at shopping destinations says compared to last year, when covid badly affected trading, it s
to growing pressure from beijing. you are watching bbc news. now ourworld iran: catching a killer. for the past year, i have been reporting on the most important story of my life. my name is omid montazaeri, and i m a reporterfor bbc persia. this story is about a massacre that took place in my home country, iran. in 1988, the iranian government, led by ayatollah khomeini, ordered thousands of political prisoners to be killed. my father was amongst those killed. i was just two years old. now, for the first time in over 30 years, one of the perpetrators of the killings is on trial, a government official called hamid nouri. this is hamid nouri. he is the first member of the islamic republic ever to stand trial outside iran for atrocities committed in iran. protestors chant. less than 15 hours til verdict and everyone is so anxious. iraj mesdaghi was a political prisoner at the time of the 1988 prison massacre. an estimated 5000 prisoners were killed. iraj survived. ever since,
prisoners were killed. several hundred leftist political prisoners were also executed. among them was my father, ahmad montazeri, who was killed for being a member of a communist group. the defendant was part of the management of the prison. he was calling out their names, he was bringing them into the so called death community who eventually made the decision whether the prisoners should be executed or not. he was a god, and he was also bringing the prisoners to the actual place of where they were executed. the prison massacres tore families apart.