to desecrating the quran and insulting the prophet muhammad in 2021. rights groups report that iran has put more than 200 prisoners to death since the beginning of the year. and in a further crackdown on high profile figures iran has charged two well known actresses with violating its strict dress codes for women. the president of iran, ebrahim raisi, has ordered an inquiry into the widespread protests seen here triggered by the death in custody of a young woman, mahsa amini, last september. taraneh stone from bbc persian joined me earlier in studio. this wasn t related to a protest per se, but it s causing a lot of concern about the high number of executions that we re hearing here and there in the news lately. we have heard in the news about many executions, especially the execution of minorities. and they re raising concerns over the imminent execution of some minorities, like arab minorities. now, we know that iran is notorious for executions, for death penalties. and w
google and one is of growing dangers as systems become more advanced. and wrexham s hollywood ending fans of the welsh football club and its celebrity owners parade through the streets to mark their return to the english football league. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in afghanistan under part you may find difficult to watch. what are mothers and children under the age of five are dying there every year every week from diseases that are preventable. foreign funding has been frozen and the little help still available from aid agencies is also under threat because the taliban has banned women from working for them. our correspondent has been to hospital on the brink of collapse. what i m about to show you is deeply distressing and shows young children in the final moments, but their form is wanted us to film them so the world can see the true scale
tayabullah, barely breathing, ill with pneumonia and malnutrition. his family wants us to see his condition. alone in a corner, his mother nigar realises her son is fading. doctors find a faint heartbeat. already defeated by a lack of resources, they re trying to revive him with the little they have. this man tells us it took eight hours, on rubble roads, to bring his grandson here. a family that can barely afford to eat, scrape together money to pay for the ride, trying to save their little boy. idema is one of two nurses treating 60 children. she makes a final attempt. minutes later, she tells nigar her boy has died. sobbing. they carry their baby home. he should be alive. every disease he had was curable. translation: i am also a mother, and when i saw the baby die, - i felt like i ve lost my own child. when i saw his mother sobbing, it broke my heart. it hurt my conscience. we don t have equipment and trained staff. there is nothing we can do but watch babies dying. barel
washington, where the us debt ceiling fight is heating up, with both sides showing no room for compromise yet on an issue that impacts the global economy. us treasury secretary janet yellen has issued a letter to congressional leaders, warning the us could run out of cash byjune 1st. that s prompted president biden to call a meeting with the top leaders in congress next week seen here. in the letter, yellen warned: speaker mccarthy responded to yellen in a statement, saying: the republican controlled house passed a debt ceiling bill last week that includes steep spending cuts. senate democratic majority leader chuck schumer announced a process to pass a clean bill with no cuts just hours ago. meanwhile, a little relief in the banking sector. wall street giantjp morgan chase took over the troubled first republic bank in a 10 point 6 billion dollar deal brokered by regulators. hey seized first republic early on monday, after efforts to rescue the bank fell through over the we