to growing pressure from beijing. you are watching bbc news. now ourworld iran: catching a killer. for the past year, i have been reporting on the most important story of my life. my name is omid montazaeri, and i m a reporterfor bbc persia. this story is about a massacre that took place in my home country, iran. in 1988, the iranian government, led by ayatollah khomeini, ordered thousands of political prisoners to be killed. my father was amongst those killed. i was just two years old. now, for the first time in over 30 years, one of the perpetrators of the killings is on trial, a government official called hamid nouri. this is hamid nouri. he is the first member of the islamic republic ever to stand trial outside iran for atrocities committed in iran. protestors chant. less than 15 hours til verdict and everyone is so anxious. iraj mesdaghi was a political prisoner at the time of the 1988 prison massacre. an estimated 5000 prisoners were killed. iraj survived. ever since,
It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 3 00am in the morning in istanbul, where Authorities Say they are close to identifying the man who killed 39 people in an attack on a new year party at a nightclub. Security officials have released this footage, which they say shows the suspect filming himself on a mobile phone in the centre of istanbul. He is shown Walking Around what is thought to be taksim square. Turkish police have launched raids in istanbul, and arrested 12 people, looking for this suspect. Meanwhile, funerals of some of the victims have been held, as our Turkey Correspondent mark lowen reports. It is slowly sinking in. Grief binding together a nation pulled apart by terror. They mourned 23 year old yunus gormek, killed in the attack on the reina nightclub. A student working there for new years eve, who was simply in the wrong place. At his funeral, his colleague. She took refuge from the gunman in the bathroom. I was in the toilet. The electricity went out. And i w
It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 3 00am in the morning in istanbul, where Authorities Say they are close to identifying the man who killed 39 people in an attack on a new year party at a nightclub. Security officials have released this footage, which they say shows the suspect filming himself on a mobile phone in the centre of istanbul. He is shown Walking Around what is thought to be taksim square. Turkish police have launched raids in istanbul, and arrested 12 people, looking for this suspect. Meanwhile, funerals of some of the victims have been held, as our Turkey Correspondent mark lowen reports. It is slowly sinking in. Grief binding together a nation pulled apart by terror. They mourned 23 year old yunus gormek, killed in the attack on the reina nightclub. A student working there for new years eve, who was simply in the wrong place. At his funeral, his colleague. She took refuge from the gunman in the bathroom. I was in the toilet. The electricity went out. And i w