policies to try to boost the uk economy, despite the turmoil it s created in the markets. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. two weeks ago, 22 year old mahsa amini died in iranian police custody. she d been arrested for allowing strands of hair to escape her headscarf. since then, iran has been rocked by protests led by women demanding freedom and equality. it could be the most serious threat to iran s theocratic leadership since the islamic revolution. for my guest, it s a new phase in a long struggle. masih alinejad began an online movement demanding women s rights from exile. it s made her a regime target. is hers a struggle that can be won? masih alinejad in new york city, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. now, you have been campaigning for women s rights in iran, both from inside the country and from exile in the united states, for decades. have you been
for my guest, it s a new phase in a long struggle. masih alinejad began an online movement demanding women s rights from exile. it s made her a regime target. is hers a struggle that can be won? masih alinejad in new york city, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. now, you have been campaigning for women s rights in iran, both from inside the country and from exile in the united states, for decades. have you been surprised by the speed and the scale of events in the last couple of weeks? to be honest, i knew the anger. i have been publishing the videos of iranian women, for eight years, practising their civil disobedience, many of them bravely filming themselves while telling the police, the morality police, it s none of your business. i don t want to cover my hair. most of them are the true leaders of the change within the society. they re leading a movement against compulsory hijab. so for me, now, the brutal death
he did call, though. he was breaking up on the phone and all i got out of it was gasoline and kilmeade s house. so kilmeade, watch your six. no, wait, it s greg, watch your three. all night gutfeld. anyway christmas has come and gone and boy have we been given some duesies of gifts. when i got them gives from the big and tall shop. they had it coming. when i was a kid and got a gift i didn t like you just accepted it. like when your mom said so you wore it when she said so. nothing like an unwrapped toy to make you say your first curse words under your breath. i don t know why they didn t wrap them no one elsewhere s a quadruple size pair of socks but me. and then mom would say, i know you didn t ask for it but santa knew you needed it. thanks a lot santa. the following year when i put him in that head lock. but i was the bad kid? what did i know? i was five. and it s weird, so he spies on me all year, then he breaks into my house, and it s okay because he brought socks? d
Republican party that is poised to unleash painful consequences about the whole country. Some recess. Over the first to back for the House Of Representatives was in fact chaos. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy has been unable to move forward with crucial Appropriations Bills or Government Spending bills, and its not because democrats and republicans are fighting with one another. The fighting is happening among republicans. There have been ultimatums, insults thrown between members, closeddoor meetings, and no progress on anything substantive for which the house is actually responsible. And listen to essential the government will shut down, if nobodys past, mccarthy announced that he will open an Impeachment Inquiry into president joe biden. Now that is a gambit that is certain to fail. And i dont mean that mccarthy cant possibly get biden removed from office if not just impeach of the house, but a trial and a vote in the senate. It is unclear if a mccarthy can win Impeachment Vote in the
this just into cnn. this ambassador accused of spying for a foreign government. the charges in just minutes. we will bring you the very latest. israeli ground forces in southern gaza. the sign that the idf is going to expand to all of gaza. staff shortages are a major problem that might affect air travel safety. some controllers have been pushed to the brink. some were drunken somewhere asleep on the job. details ahead. these stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. we want to get to the story we are following. and asked u.s. ambassador accused of having spied on cuba. evan perez, court documents are sealed, what do they review? according to prosecutors, victor munro was 75 years old was working for the cuban government according to the justice department. working for the cuban government since 1981. in november of 2022, the fbi received a tip that he was working for a foreign government and they introduced him to the undercover agent. someo