iranian state television says that the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has pardoned a large number of prisoners linked to protests. iranian media outlets say that a letter from the head of the judiciary said that a number of people, especially the young, had committed wrongful actions and crimes because of incitement and propaganda by the enemy. taraneh stone, from the bbc s persian service, joins me now. thank you for coming in. talk us through, first of all, what we know about what has happened here. figs through, first of all, what we know about what has happened here. as you mentioned, about what has happened here. as you mentioned. the about what has happened here. as you mentioned, the supreme about what has happened here. as you mentioned, the supreme leader - about what has happened here. as you mentioned, the supreme leader has . mentioned, the supreme leader has agreed to pardon and commute sentences of tens of people who are imprisoned or who are waiting
we do have some showers. you can see the extent of the cloud across the country, some of the heavy showers working in across western scotland and northern ireland and across wales at the moment whereas across eastern scotland and central and eastern scotland and central and eastern england not much in the way of sunshine. most of that rain tending to come through quite light and patchy but nevertheless are not off through the afternoon. temperatures are lower than at the week but closer to average at this time of year. overnight cloud and rain becoming restricted to southern areas later in the night wears for scotland and northern ireland and northern england were looking at a cold night with a widespread frost. temperatures between zero and minus three celsius. tomorrow any cloud and rain across the south should move away quickly through the morning. high pressure building on and for a time that brings sunny skies to northern ireland and scotland and a good part of england a
who can stop the lionesses, they are back in action in the next hour, we ll head live to bristol and we ll also get the latest from germany, it s another champions league night with manchester city playing leipzig crisis meetings have been taking place all day between the professional rugby board, the welsh rugby union and the international squad and players from the four regions, cardiff, dragons, ospreys and scarlets. and resolution has been reached. the six nations match against england this weekend , that was in doubt, with the players close to taking strike action, will take place. in the last hour, the wales captain, ken owens, and the wru s acting chief executive, nigel walker, addressed the media together. iam i am pleased to announce that after extensive conversations and discussions over the last week, the wales versus england game will go ahead as scheduled. it s important that going forward we continue the dialogue which we have had over the last week or so, but n
tens of thousands of adults with disabilities and long term illnesses are being sued by local councils for failing to pay their social care bills. and a pivotal day in welsh rugby players are due to reveal whether they will strike during the six nations, over contractual disputes. hello, good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. shamima begum, who travelled to syria and joined the so called islamic state group when she was just 15, so called islamic state group when she wasjust 15, has so called islamic state group when she was just 15, has lost a legal challenge to the covenant decision to deprive her of british citizenship. it means she remains stuck in a camp in northern syria, and is barred from returning to the uk. in 2019, the then home secretary sajid javid stripped ms begum of her british citizenship after receiving advice that she was a threat to national security. shamima begum is now 23. here s our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. in february 2015, eight y
you for what you re doing and god you for what you re doing and god you all. presidentjoe biden with a pretty defiant speech stressing the united states and nato allies, support for ukraine will not waiver speaking of course in the run up to the first anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. he has been in warsaw and a cheering crowd there that as he put it, president putin lust for power and land would fail. he painted the struggle as a generational one for freedom he said that autocrats had grown weaker over the last year and all of that, of course follows what president vladimir putin was saying in moscow this morning when he delivered a fiercely anti western and nationalistic address to russian parliamentarians. putin accused the west of provoking the war in ukraine of starting the war of escalating the conflict of trying to defeat russia it s self. the white house called his allegations absurd while ukrainian officials said that his speech was laden with c