Nazenin, start us off. It started six months ago, and this is according to president rouhani last week, that the decision to increase petrol prices was taken six months ago, and it was the responsibility for execution was given to the supreme for execution was given to the Supreme National security council, which included the ministry of the interior and also ir ib, the state broadcaster. Mr rouhani claims he was asked not to tell him anything and that he only found out about it while reading in the news that when the prices were increased. So, using these six months, the executive arm of the Islamic Republic, the government, instead of using these six months to prepare the public for these rises that overnight suddenly they woke up and 50 , they didnt know about it. Instead, they used those six months to see how they could bring down the people that would get out in the protests. So, when the time came, they were prepared with helicopters, with snipers, and then they shut the internet
He blamed the previous government for a law that allowed the perpetrator to leave prison early. The Labour Party Said the conservatives had been responsible for his release. Maltas Prime Minister, joseph muscat, has bowed to intense public pressure and agreed to step down over the huge scandal surrounding the assassination of the investigative journalist, daphne ca ruana galizia. He said he would hand over power next month after his governing labour party chooses a new leader. The un secretary general has told the bbc that governments need to stop subsidising fossil fuel industries if the world is to avoid the worst consquences of global warming. Antonio guterres said taxpayers money is paying for the melting of glaciers. He was speaking ahead of the un climate summit. Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week protests convulse iran, but also iraq and lebanon. How does all this unrest relate and where does it leave tehrans dream
Dream for dominance of the region . Nato leaders are due to meet this week, but how confidently can they predict 70 more years of . All for one and one for all . 7 they predict 70 more years of all for one and one for all . And we . Re getting close to make your mind up time in the uk election. So what exactly will make up voters . Minds . My guests this week iranian journalist nazenin ansari, italian film maker annalisa piras, and michael goldfarb, american host of the frdh podcast. We are one guest down this week due to illness, so the other three will have to do more heavy lifting for me. There are conflicting accounts of how many people have died and how many have been arrested in iran in the past fortnight. What started as a wave of protest against rising petrol prices seems to have turned into a wider howl of outrage against crushing inflation and unemployment. Its the biggest show of public defiance to irans ayatollahs in a decade and they dont like it. Nor can they like what th
To china for the sake of at least some kind of support, for the sake of at least some image that russia has not become an outcast, in my opinion and my conclusion, russia is becoming an international outcast, not even any support, precisely the support of china, the russian leader did not receive, and these are actually, i think , very serious changes, god forbid that these changes that have begun. Now in beijing, in china, that they will still be implemented in june in switzerland and further the international community, together with the global country, china, nevertheless moved completely to the support of ukraine and to the condemnation of russian aggression. Thank you, mr. Valentin, for the conversation, it was valentin nalyvaichenko, peoples deputy of ukraine, former head of the Security Service of ukraine. Friends, i want to remind that we work live on the tv channel. Espresso, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us live on thes
We have an army, it was not strong before the start of the war, and we gain this experience, we develop, we learn, we all make mistakes, we learn from these mistakes, and accordingly we develop, there is a tendency, of course, somewhere else there may be, so to speak, army, soldiery, but so what, what is important to understand is a cult. Values, they change, because we see that it is not effective, and especially the example of our brigade, it was created precisely on the basis of showing that in the modern world it is possible to win a war not only with the old soviet methods, lets try something modern, the modern approach is psychological, technological, and thats what were working on. Speaking of your teams values, what are they . Well, first of all, the life of every soldier is important to us, that is why we. Contribute to the maximum provision psychologically, materially, precisely thats why we develop as an organism, very actively, and it is evident that the command helps us in