a deepening area of low pressure. this has been named storm otto, named by the danish weather service for likely impacts in denmark. but for likely impacts in denmark. but for others across the northern half of the uk it is going to bring some very strong and gusty winds. for the time being, relatively quiet this afternoon. a few glimmers a brightness for england and wales, splashes of rain for northern ireland and scotland and it is mild. through this evening we will see rain across northern ireland, scotland and parts of northern england and the winds are starting to ratchet up, very windy across these northern areas. further south breezy, mostly cloudy and it is going to be a mild night. if he had travel plans late into tonight and early tomorrow morning across scotland, we could see wind gusts of 80 mph, but easily getting to 70, 70 five miles per hour elsewhere. the other place where the winds will cause problems is across the tops of the pennines and just to the east of
what we don t know, obviously the numbers. we don t know when or how this will happen. we do know the way that it s written says it s an answer to an appeal, a letter from the head of the judiciary who essentially frames it as being many people who went out to protest, particularly the young, were misled, by foreign agents, propaganda from abroad, and that they now want forgiveness. and they re still described as riots, nothing more, nothing less. so, in terms of how the authorities frame this, obviously nothing has changed. also, it makes clear that people who are accused, who have been charged with more serious crimes, so that s spying, murder, destruction of state property, won t be pardoned. the issue about that is that many, many activists, many people involved in this say that those people who have been charged with the strongest offences have not had fair trials. they ve been summary trials. so they haven t had a fair look at what their case is anyway. i think this is
iranian state television says that the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has pardoned a large number of prisoners linked to protests. iranian media outlets say that a letter from the head of the judiciary said that a number of people, especially the young, had committed wrongful actions and crimes because of incitement and propaganda by the enemy. taraneh stone, from the bbc s persian service, joins me now. thank you for coming in. talk us through, first of all, what we know about what has happened here. figs through, first of all, what we know about what has happened here. as you mentioned, about what has happened here. as you mentioned. the about what has happened here. as you mentioned, the supreme about what has happened here. as you mentioned, the supreme leader - about what has happened here. as you mentioned, the supreme leader has . mentioned, the supreme leader has agreed to pardon and commute sentences of tens of people who are imprisoned or who are waiting