iranian state television says that the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has pardoned a large number of prisoners linked to protests. the state broadcaster says that ayatollah khamenei was responding to a proposal by the head of the judiciary. iranian media outlets say that the letter from the judiciary chief said that a number of people, especially the young, had committed wrongful actions and crimes because of incitement and propaganda by the enemy. our middle east analyst sebastian usher gave us this update. this is a pardon that comes on the eve of the anniversary of the 1979 islamic revolution, so there are pardons quite regularly for that. what we don t know, obviously the numbers. we don t know when or how this will happen. we do know the way that it s written says it s an answer to an appeal, a letter from the head of the judiciary who essentially frames it as being many people who went out to protest, particularly the young, were misled, by foreign agents, propag
what we don t know, obviously the numbers. we don t know when or how this will happen. we do know the way that it s written says it s an answer to an appeal, a letter from the head of the judiciary who essentially frames it as being many people who went out to protest, particularly the young, were misled, by foreign agents, propaganda from abroad, and that they now want forgiveness. and they re still described as riots, nothing more, nothing less. so, in terms of how the authorities frame this, obviously nothing has changed. also, it makes clear that people who are accused, who have been charged with more serious crimes, so that s spying, murder, destruction of state property, won t be pardoned. the issue about that is that many, many activists, many people involved in this say that those people who have been charged with the strongest offences have not had fair trials. they ve been summary trials. so they haven t had a fair look at what their case is anyway. i think this is
rangers and australia have discovered what is believed to be the world s biggest toad. it is a cane toad, it was found in queensland and weighed £6 back. the poisonous amphibians were reduced to australia in 1935 and are linked to the decline of native species. the toad we are told was put down and will be donated to a museum. i didn t look at that at all. hello, ben, it is where the time. she was looking away, i can assure you of that. you may not want to look away from this, we have got some beautiful scenes and this is from a weather watcher in wales. there is snow on the ground in parts of scotland, northern england, northern ireland and into wales. there are areas of cloud around as well and they are on the north sea coast, most falling as rain, but some sleet and snow on high ground. this cloud brings a bit of patchy rain into the far west of cornwall, but elsewhere sunny skies overhead. it is a chilly day, three to 8 degrees, but in the sunshine it will not feel too b
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