videos, we can hear explosions. we know that special forces have been deployed to the prison. it is a very significant prison because this is where many political prisoners are being capped. many dual nationals are kept in evin prison. we still don t know what is happening. state media says there has been a riot and it has been cleared, but that is not the sense we are getting. we are in touch with some family members of political prisoners. they say they cannot get a hold of their loved ones in prison. their phone lines are not working in the wi fi around the prison has been shut down. it s difficult to get any information. there is heavy traffic. some people say that most of the roads near the prison are blocked and the videos that we received shows huge traffic and many people in the neighbourhood are on rooftops shouting death to the dictator. are on rooftops shouting death to the dictator- the dictator. those are extraordinary - the dictator. those are extraordinary details i the
car, not even a police car, and they were pointing their guns at other protesters to deter them. these images are creating more and more anger and people are more defiant and ready to fight the islamic republic. so with every step of government is just creating more angen government is just creating more anger. killing teenagers, brutalising women, dragging protesters on the ground and putting them in horrible prisons isjust feuding this anger that has now taken the entire country. we believe that there, taken the entire country. we believe that there. but taken the entire country. we believe that there, but thank taken the entire country. we believe that there, but thank you taken the entire country. we believe that there, but thank you so - taken the entire country. we believe that there, but thank you so much . that there, but thank you so much for giving us that broader context and those new details we have about what is happening with that fire in that protest at evin prison
across much of the country on saturday, but videos have emerged showing protests in a dozen cities, including tehran. in the northwestern city of ardabitl, there have been reports of the security forces opening fire on demonstrators and protesters throwing rocks and chanting death to the dictator . and a couple minutes time, we will speak with the correspondent with more details about what we do and don t know about that fire in evin prison. here in the uk, there s the expectation of big changes to come to the country s entire economic plan. the country s new finance minister, jeremy hunt, says taxes could rise to help reassure financial markets. on friday the prime minister, liz truss, sacked the previous chancellor and announced more u turns on her big economic ideas but is still facing criticism from her own mps. here s our political correspondent, ione wells.
wider protests that we ve been seeing across the country today? well, we still don t know what exactly happened inside the prison. whether it is a riot, and antigovernment protest, at this stage, it is too early to link this to the protests. it could easily be linked to that because many of the protesters have been taken to evin prison in the other prisoners are now aware of how intense the situation is outside the prison. as he said, we are now in the fifth week and this is now the longest and most widespread anti regime protest in the history of the islamic republic since 1979 when the islamic revolution happened. it has been violently crackdown, and it hasn t succeeded to stop the protests. even today we had several cities, including the city that there are reports that a school student who had been arrested have died of internal bleeding. so the anger is a very serious and it s now all across
predecessor and tweets as well. it is notjust the british and american governments and the iran government but now we find out that, you know, omar and working hard to help out as well and it needed a change of tone, of attitude from the country but as we heard from simon jones country but as we heard from simonjones earlier, richard simon jones earlier, richard ratcliffe simonjones earlier, richard ratcliffe was supposedly at raf brize norton and, now is the time forfamilies to brize norton and, now is the time for families to reunite. indeed, an extraordinary and emotionalfew hours indeed, an extraordinary and emotional few hours ahead for all those involved. mark for the moment, thank you. but several of the psychological aspect i m joined now by jason rezaian. he was the washington post s tehran correspondent for four years. he spentjust under 18 months in tehran s notorious evin prison until his release injanuary 2016. he now hosts a podcast about that experience and similar cases