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
Hands of the taliban the taliban wants to make a deal well see if they want to make a deal its going to be a real deal but well see but they want to make a deal and they only want to make a deal because youre doing a great job the chillers they want to make you trouble announced for the 1st time the taliban is interested in reaching a Peace Agreement with the government in kabul this after they released 2 western hostages and 10 Afghan Soldiers in exchange for 3 of their senior leaders. These are the 1st signs of progress since the broke off talks in Early September after the taliban killed a u. S. Soldier in a bombing but Officials Say theres still no sign the taliban are ready to give up their weapons permanently in exchange for a role in afghan politics demilitarization is a key demand from afghan president ashraf ghani but hes been sidelined while u. S. And taliban do senators meet still joined trump on stage at bob graham in tweeted out highlights of the moment apparently keen to
About iran have played into the protests. There is a great boulder here in the. Bodies of thousands and our government demonstrators that that. Is far too beholden to store in powers and that among those foreign powers that are exerting too much influence in this country is the country which is their neighbor and that they will work extraordinary about what happened this evening is that the iranian consulate is the one just want to see. Shiite religious authority was attacked this is shia majority city and they didnt like government demonstrators there are you know. Showcasing their anger about the fact that they believe it is evolving with the dirty too much power in iraq by going in and storming the compound where the Iranian Embassy is house so this is a very big signal that all the government if there is a growing discontent that iran is far too much present in Iraq Internal Affairs now this again all playing out against that Antigovernment Movement that is growing you see several
Iran is a steal participate in so this is not acceptable that you are. Violating country or very isolating at the moment you are managing director irans Port Authority i mean if you read any nato Nation Newspaper or watch any major nation t. V. Station theyll talk about sanctions how do you even have any ports that function in iran given the International Sanctions against your country well at the beginning of the sanctions they put the. Mikes in on pressure on the shipping sector including try turning off the International Shipping companies especially the container liner carriers to seize their. Trade with iran and to to have. A call to indian ports the classification societies issue deceptive because for the ship. And those who are members of iraqs which is the International Society association they also stopped their coverage of iranian ship Insurance Companies internationally into Insurance Companies even insured and again a collapse but fortunately due to the capacities of Irania
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