Program the white house is turning up the pressure on iran but take a lead on the countrys Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini u. S. President donald trump signed an executive order slapping new sanctions on iran on monday he said they would deny irans Supreme Leader and his affiliates access to resources and the u. S. Financial system the white house added that anybody conducting transactions with sanctioned individuals may be exposed to sanctions themselves ok if youre not reigning in officials brushed off washingtons latest move saying it wouldnt hurt at all but by the looks of it the u. S. Is strategy of strangling irans economy by piling up sanction after sanction has had an impact. Iran is feeling the pinch the reintroduction of u. S. Sanctions has had a crippling effect on the economy the value of the reale has plummeted pushing inflation to over 30 percent and us president Donald Trumps attempt to destroy the countrys oil industry is having an effect to the influential middle cla
Area on a for this special episode of thrice we getting on board the greenpeace ice breaker arctic sunrise. Following one of the biggest campaigns in the environmental organizations history witnessing the spectacular by a diverse city. And the many threats to life from Climate Change to a deficient. As a team of scientists photographers and ocean experts sets out to prove these balls for mobile just must become an Antarctic Ocean century. Before i settled down so im going to find out a little about the journey im about to embark on tucked away in this maze of old london streets. Something quite extraordinary. Ever since i was a boy being mesmerized by tales of the golden age of antarctic exploration of the early twentieth century. Names of explorers like roald amundsen. Well this is where some of those expeditions came to get them ou. He was referring causes hello good to see this is a kind of treasure trove of politics duration. Turns out mankind has forever been hooked on the concept
a major crackdown on migrants crossing the channel in small boats. the uk government is planning to ban them for life from returning to the uk. we have a special report from the seychelles the country with the biggest heroin problem in the world. after a century, perfectly preserved at the bottom of the antarctic ocean lloyds of london locate the insurance policy for shackleton s ship the endurance. and it s already won four baftas and been nominated for nine oscars. the team behind the irish comedy the banshees of inishiren have been speaking to the bbc. to feel it and then said go out onto the world and received by all sorts of, you know, the corners of the globe, pretty surprising and cool. a very warm welcome to the programme. are you a twitter user? if programme. are you a twitter user? , ., . , programme. are you a twitter user? , ., ., , , current and former staff at twitter have told the bbc s panorama programme that the company is no longer able to protect
Beyond recognition. A bustling city, now a wasteland. The destructive power of water has ripped the heart from derna. Its survivors left wracked with grief and anger. Translation we were told to stay inside our homes. Why . They should have told us there was a storm, told us the dam was old and crumbling. Some of these destroyed buildings were 100 years old. This man lost five members of his family in the raging current. One was his ten month old daughter. He shows me their pictures. First alive. And then their bodies. This was what brought him here. A convoy of ministers from the eastern government, one of libyas two opposing authorities. Fighting has decimated the countrys infrastructure. Ferris says its proved fatal. I spoke to the eastern prime minister, 0sama hamad. How could this happen when the dams were supposed to keep people safe . It was a very strong cyclone, he told me. Too strong for the dams. Here in the centre of derna, the destruction is total. And when you look down t