london. and welcome to the amanpour hour. in the next 60 minutes we will take you around the world to ask the tough questions and tackle the problems and let history be our guide. here is where we re headed this week. no more excuses. the australian billionaire turned eco warrior who says it is do or die if we are to save the planet puts his money where his mouth is. the science is not in any debate by anyone with half a brain, so we must change. then to the violent epicenter of the middle east, a professor how america took its eye off the ball at just the wrong time. i really have no trust in american foreign policy. also ahead, no cell silencer, an exclusive interview with the family of the iranian nobel winner. and then from the archive, grappling with nelson mandela s legacy, a decade after his death. and finally, to the moon. for a story of hope and humanity, with tom hanks. all we really need is enough of us to work together and we can truly change the wor
Iranian dissidents living inside the Islamic republic and in exile Thursday went on hunger strike to protest the surge of hangings in Iran that included most recently a participant in the 2022 protest movement who activists say had mental health difficulties.Other prominent figures inside Iran who spent time in jail over the protests said they were also going on hunger strike, including the singer Mehdi Yarrahi and activist Hossein Ronaghi.
An Iranian court has sentenced 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to an additional sentence of over one year in prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic while behind bars, her family said on Monday.Mohammadi, whose family accepted the 2023 Nobel prize in Oslo on her behalf in December, was given the award in recognition of her campaigning for human rights in Iran.