to desecrating the quran and insulting the prophet muhammad in 2021. rights groups report that iran has put more than 200 prisoners to death since the beginning of the year. and in a further crackdown on high profile figures iran has charged two well known actresses with violating its strict dress codes for women. the president of iran, ebrahim raisi, has ordered an inquiry into the widespread protests seen here triggered by the death in custody of a young woman, mahsa amini, last september. taraneh stone from bbc persian joined me earlier in studio. this wasn t related to a protest per se, but it s causing a lot of concern about the high number of executions that we re hearing here and there in the news lately. we have heard in the news about many executions, especially the execution of minorities. and they re raising concerns over the imminent execution of some minorities, like arab minorities. now, we know that iran is notorious for executions, for death penalties. and w
a nationwide security crisis. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading british commentators with journalists from overseas who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences in their home countries from the dateline: london. this week liz the disruptor, emmanuel the moderniser, vlad the invader. the first has a comfortable majority but has already had to wave the white flag. the second vowed to reform, and the voters promptly deprived him of his majority. the third can ignore his parliament, but perhaps not the people, who are voting with their feet. leadership who wants it? in the studio to discuss that triumvirate, a dateline triumvirate. jeffrey kofman, who s anchored news programmes in both his native canada and the united states, and reported from the frontline. marc roche, a belgian born economist who writes for the french news magazine le point. polly toynbee, weekly columnist with the guardian for almost
hundreds of thousands are on the move, looking for food. most of the adults here and around these most of the adults here and around these camps are women. and that is because these camps are women. and that is because of these camps are women. and that is because of somalia s conflict, which is ground because of somalia s conflict, which is ground on because of somalia s conflict, which is ground on for three decades or so in one is ground on for three decades or so in one form is ground on for three decades or so in one form or another. and after a string of gains by ukrainian forces, russia vows to take back all areas of annexed territory recaptured in recent days. liz truss has given her first major speech as prime minister to her party exactly four weeks since taking over as conservative leader. but already her leadership is being tested. she s facing a revolt from within her party over her economic plans and has been forced to reverse one of her key polici
Now, i can say that maybe we re going in the second phase, that we are trying to not obeying the rule. like i as a woman here, i do not wear hijab and the scarf any more. i m wearing like, for example, like a dress, which is, it was never in our dreams again with, you know, with being of islamic republic here as a regime, we can do these things. we are going inside another faith, which is still we have definitely the fear. i myself have it whenever i see, like, i hear a motorcycle or i see someone who looks like a basiji. i take that fear with myself, but, you know, i talk with myself that, 0k, be brave. be brave. you re going to. you re going to win this. you re going to win this. definitely. and is that the sentiment in general for women that you speak to? you sort of take the risk every time you walk out of your house, when you leave without your hijab, when you dress in a way that they see as being inappropriate. exactly. we re taking this risk. it s like, you know,
Of schoolgirls apparently berating a member of the para military, i think phrase was get lost, basiji . how serious a threat to the 43 year old islamic republic is it with these protesters that people might want it to be but is it? i think we all suffer from wishful thinking when we see rebellions in countries that we don t where we despise the leadership. i mean, those girls are unbelievably brave. and it s hard to believe that there won t be revenge against them and their families in one way or the other. never mind the ones that have already been shot down. we ve seen uprisings before and iran. we know what a lot of people in iran want and feel. each time, they get put down. think of what we ve seen in belarus. we thought for a moment there was going to be freedom in belarus. utterly crushed. it is very, very difficult to rebel against monstrous dictators who have all of the weapons and all of the force on their side. each time, we hoped this might be. i mean, think about the g