one man s hands. really appreciate it, steven jiang. jobe biden is saying that h was stunned by how the protestors reacted to the death of mahsa amini while in the cuss difference the morality police. and in tehran, new video obtained by cnn from iran wire shows male security forces surrounding and grabbing a woman in the street. it has been shared widely by persian language news channels outside the country. jomana karedsheh is monitoring events. so with things already so tense, how are iranians reacting to this latest dramatic video? reporter: it is very dramatic, very disturbing, really horrific when you see this young woman that is being described by state media as the ringleader of women protestors out on the streets in tehran. and when you see how she was
many international human rights organizations that this iranian regime will deliver a credible investigation. all right. we ll keep following that story. jomana karedsheh in istanbul, thanks so much. and right now alaska is being hit by possibly the strongest storm in more than a decade. so we ll go live to the weather center right after the break. stay with us. me. one sore throat. but she had enough. she took mucinex instasoothe sore throat lozenges. show your sore throat who s boss. mucinex instasoothe. works in seconds, lasts for hours.
failures of a ruling recomlreye elite that has plunged the country into a crisis. translator: we have been asking the state for the last three years, we have demanded and protested in peaceful ways and no one showed any interest in our cause. it is pushing the depositors to take their right with their own hands. reporter: surreal scenes like this one played out with a man who said he was unarmed calmly holding up a bank in beirut friday. banks announced that they will be closed for at least three days next week fearing this may just be the beginning. they broke the country, they broke the people. what do we have? this is not a country. reporter: jomana karedsheh, cnn, istanbul. right now alaska is being hit by possibly the strongest storm in more than a deck indicate. we re live in the weather center right after the break. please stay with us. ls have las.
the morality police. authorities say she suffered a heart attack, but her family questions that. jomana karedsheh is joining us with more. what are we learning about her death? reporter: well, as you mentioned there, we re getting two versions of events, what the authorities are trying to put forward as her dying of national custodies while in the custody of the morality police. you ve got her family, you have opposition members, you ve got international human rights organizations raising questions about this. and the circumstances of her death. now, look, what we understand happened according to activists who spoke to the family, her family had traveled to tehran from iran s kurdistan region, they were there to visit relatives, they were stopped by the morality police. and that is the authorities who are tasked with enforcing the country s strict islamic dress code including the compulsory
them for, what is he going to use them for. this is highly unusual. and we ll have more of my discussion with michael coming up tin our next hour. salman rushdie s agent tells the new york times that the author started to speak saturday a day after he was stabbed during a new york book event. while rushdie remains in hospital, suspect the appeared in court pleading not guilty to attempted second xree-degree mu and other charges. he will be back in court next friday. rushdie was stabbed in the s stomach, right eye and chest. and condemnation is still pouring in. in iran where an edict calling for rushdie s assassination was called for decades ago, some are celebrating the attack. more from jomana karedsheh. reporter: all eyes on iran to