my guest is abdullah mohtadi, leader of the komala party of iranian kurdistan. is his a fight for rights orfor independence? abdullah mohtadi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. i began by referring there to the tragic death of mahsa amini. would you say that her death last september in custody inside iran has changed the political dynamic inside iran? it has because, on the 16th of september, she was declared dead in the hospital. the day after, on the 17th, there was a funeral in her hometown of saqqez in the province of kurdistan there are four kurdish provinces in iran and it was a spontaneous protest movement erupted in saqqez, her hometown, and it soon spread to sanandaj, the capital city of that province. and two days after that, on the 19th, it was a general strike called by the cooperation center the kurdish political parties called by cooperation center of kurdish political parties which was fully observe
hello, i m sarah campbell, welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. we start with prince harry. it s been his second day of being cross examined in the high court. the prince said he found it suspicious, that difficult conversations between him and an ex girlfriend appeared in stories in the daily mirror. the paper s publisher denies using unlawful means to gather information about the duke saying its reports were based on publicly available sources. our culture editor, katie razzall, was in court. the interest in this story shows no sign of waning. for the second day world s media gathered in a cul de sac in central london waiting for the high court s star witness. prince harry arrived here for another bout of cross examination. the mirror group is determined to show he is wrong to claim that articles about him were based on unlawful information gathering. mgn s barrister told him there was not a single item of evidence in the
advancing on the battlefield. we ll have all the latest developments. day two of prince harry in court. he says he found it suspicious, that difficult conversations between him and an ex girlfriend appeared in stories in the daily mirror. the uk prime minister is in washington dc. we ll ask how he s being received and what he s trying to get out of his trip. and the croccodile who got herself pregnant. on her own. we ll find out how. we re going to look at ukraine s military advances in a minute. first the damage by the attack on the dam. look at this. this is the scene in the city of kherson. not streets but rooftops. many people spending night on rooftop waiting for rescue. 29 towns and villages tens of thousands of people at risk. remember the size of the area impacted. dnipro river, kherson. these are satellite pictures. you could see just two days apart, you can see the difference of the flood water. our correspondentjames water. our correspondent james waterhouse is wat
world tour have agreed to a shock merger with the saudi backed liv golf. this comes despite the pending litigation between pga and liv. that will now be halted as they move forward as part of the same enterprise. over the past year liv golf caused huge disruption in the men s game, with top players such as rory mcllroy and tiger woods boldly criticising it. but other players such as brooks koepka joined liv golf for large sums with the backing of the saudi arabia public investment fund. the bbc s golf correspondent iain carter believes it is the big investment being offered that has made this deal possible. players can get along fine when they are playing for the biggest prizes. money is the massive driver here, the likes of rory mcilroy and the establishment from the live setup, they used to be west friends. michael roy was a groomsmen at garcia s wedding. they now do not speak. but that sort of thing will be shoved to one side. what we wait to see is what shape men s golf t