Thank you. And thats bbc news at ten. Theres more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight, with kirsty wark, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. The news continues here on bbc one, as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the almost a year since the start of the Women Life Freedom Protests in iran, we have a Special Report with defiant voices inside the country as the Morality Police double down on the repression of women. So how should the uk calibrate relations with iran . Well be joined by a Iranian American Human Rights researcher whose father was a political prisoner who died under house arrest and the former uk ambassador to iran. Also tonight, to raise or not to raise should the Bank Of England hike the Interest Rate tomorrow, or can the economy do its own work now . Two senior economists argue it out. The upcoming ruthergen and Hamilton West by election expected to be a major Snp Labour Battle could be a bellwether for the general
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groups for years have been pushing for to establish some sort of independent investigative and accountability mechanism to try to hole the perpetrators of human rights violations in iran to account. so this vote today is being described as landmark, as historic. some would tell you this is long overdue, but the timing of it is very critical as we re seeing protests going on for more than two months and turned into a national uprising that is calling for regime change. we re seeing the regime s response, a crackdown that is so vicious that has intensified in recent days, and, you know, they re saying that this is and we ve heard the united nations warning that this is a human rights crisis that is going on right now. it is a critical situation on the ground, so it is very important that this sort of investigative mechanism has been passed by the human rights council. a short time ago, boris, i spoke with iranian american human