this is bbc news. iran s newly elected leader is already playing hard ball. he won t meetjoe biden. he won t negotiate over iran s ballistic missile programme. so where does that leave the nuclear talks? ebrahim raisi doesn t take over until august, but he s already making his hardline views known. we ll speak with ben rhodes, president obama s senior foreign policy aide, who helped draw up the original deal. emmanuel macron s en marche party is resoundingly defeated in the first round of france s regional elections. but it wasn t a good night for marine le pen either. also in the programme. japan will allow spectators at the tokyo olympics, but stadium capacities will be limited to 10,000 japanese fans. plus, can you die from a broken heart?
this is bbc news. iran s newly elected leader is already playing hard ball. he won t meetjoe biden. he won t negotiate over iran s ballistic missile programme. so where does that leave the nuclear talks? ebrahim raisi doesn t take over until august, but he s already making his hardline views known. we ll speak with ben rhodes, president 0bama s senior foreign policy aide, who helped draw up the original deal. emmanuel macron s en marche party is resoundingly defeated in the first round of france s regional elections. but it wasn t a good night for marine le pen either. also in the programme. japan will allow spectators at the tokyo 0lympics, but stadium capacities will be limited to 10,000 japanese fans. plus, can you die from a broken heart?
refineries. go after the iranians so they ll feel pain. the drone can fly up to 60,000 feet and loiter for 30 hours at a time used to spy on iranian military communications and tracks shipping in the busy waterways. each drone costs up to $180 million. last night officials say iranian-backed forces launched cruise missiles into saudi arabia targeting a power plant. bill: topic a for the administration today. there was a secret meeting at the white house last night after these reports of the iranian-backed forces launching cruise missiles to saudi arabia. now a large, unprovoked attack according to u.s. officials on a $180 million piece of military hardware. expect meetings at the pentagon and white house. patrick shanahan has resigned and mark esper doesn t take
reporter: now, the new district attorney doesn t take over until next month, and, jenna, this hearing today is expected to go all day. they have multiple witnesses to take the stand. jenna: we don t have any cameras inside the courtroom today otherwise we d be showing our viewers some of the freshest images that we have of holmes. what do we know about his condition right now? reporter: because of the gag order the attorneys aren t allowed to tell us any specifics about his condition. as far as we know he is in there today, because last month he missed his hearing because he reportedly had bashed his head against his jail-cell wall and this wasn t the first time that he has reportedly tried to hurt himself. in fact tmz had reported that holmes had made many half-hearted attempts at sue suicide. you mentioned there are no cameras in the courtroom. the judge is not allowing them in there. we have a fox news reporter in there, and she will be reporting all the details of that hearing
the world al qaeda and iraq used on this. i think what we re dealing with is civil war, you have a sunni minority, maybe only 16% that thinks they may be get slaughtered by a shiite army and police, so i think a lot of this is instigators trying to provoke internal struggle. well, let s go back to afghanistan for a minute. we do have these intervening months before the withdrawal, and i m wondering, what can be done? what should be done? i mean, to make sure, you know, that the taliban doesn t take over as soon as the u.s. leaves? the struggle, of course, is the pasch tun, there s criminals at work, lawlessness, no central