With security high on the agenda. Hello thank you for joining us a riot police and Security Forces have clashed with demonstrators in dozens of cities across iran after an increase in fuel prices one person has been killed and several others injured as they tried to enter an oil refinery in the Southern City of syria john the government says the rise is needed the call but few will smuggling for such a bar reports. Anger frustration and growing concern in tehran as people protested against a 200 percent increase in fuel prices oh many simply turned off their engines on major highways across the city to show their disappointment at this sudden decision to raise petrol prices overnight. As heavy snow blanketed the capital people still lined up at the gas stations to fill up. Quite a few remarks are that this is not a wise decision considering our horrible economy and sanctions we are under its a cruel decision because it wont affect the wealthy people only the poor people will pay the pr
Political correspondent. Also on this Program Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of boston lonna to protest against capital line independence the pro unity rally hailed as a success by its organizes as madrid warns any breakaway efforts by catalonia as administration will have quote never effect. And a test of west african democracy two days before people in liberia choose a new president hopes a high for what would be the countrys first democratic handover of power in decades. Hello and welcome my name is Christopher Spring a thanks for joining us german chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have reached a breakthrough agreement in a longstanding dispute between her christian democrats and the very. Sister party the Christian Social Union sources close to key talks between the two parties say theyve agreed in principle on an upper limit for the number of migrants to be allowed into germany every year if confirmed the deal would remove a key hurdle to Coalition Talks between merke
The 30th of october. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The 0scar winning Actor Kevin Spacey has apologised after he was accused of making a sexual advance towards a boy actor in the 1980s. Anthony rapp, who stars in the Star Trek Discovery series, of him after a party. In a tweet, kevin spacey said the incident which he did not remember would have been deeply inappropriate. 0ur los angeles correspondent james cook has been following the story. What we know is that the star trek Actor Anthony Rapp has accused kevin spacey Actor Anthony Rapp has accused kevin s pa cey of Actor Anthony Rapp has accused kevin spacey of this, which happened in 1986 according to mr rapp. He was a broadway star at the time, use only 14 broadway star at the time, use only 1a years old. He went back to a party at Kevin Spaceys house. He says kevin spacey carried onto his bed, climbed on top of him and made a sexual advance alsop he said he was able to squirm away and then left the house. Kevin spacey has put out as
Long because we get into the middle pa rt long because we get into the middle part of the week. Cloudier and milder and cooler again as we get towards the tail end of the week. Lets get you through the afternoon. The cloud is coming in across scotla nd the cloud is coming in across scotland and Northern Ireland too. There is the odd bit and piece of rain here not amounting to much, further south, there is glorious sunshine to be had in places, but it is not doing much for the temperatures, at best 12, possibly 13, but many of you will be stuck in single figures and there will be a chilly start to the night ahead as well, but there will be a dramatic change as i have intimated with highs slipping away. We open up to the atlantic and double figures for the atlantic and double figures for the most part across scotland to start the new day as opposed to the minus three to minus five i was talking about at the top of this show. But i have to say that once it sta rts show. But i have to say
A warning to pet owners and farmers, after a wild cat disappears from a wildlife park in wales. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. The investigation into alleged links between Donald Trumps Election Campaign and russia has taken a dramatic turn, with the news that his former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, and rick gates manaforts former business associate, have been indicted by a federal grand jury. They face 12 counts including conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy against the united states. Theres been no reaction yet from the white house. Jane obrien is in washington. I have been going through the charge sheet and it appears the conspiracy allegations, which everyone is focusing on, relate to the Money Laundering charges and the alleged efforts by Paul Manafort and his business associate rick gates to cover them up. The conspiracy in this case appears to relate to the fa ct this case appears to relate to the fact they were defrauding the government and that they were im