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hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. at least one person has been shot dead in the iranian city of zahedan, as anti government protests continue in much of the country. activitsts say security forces fired on dozens of people as they left friday prayers in the southern city. robin brant reports. six weeks in and these protests show no sign of abating. the opposite in fact. this is zahedan, the scene of violent confrontation again. independent observers claiming the cracked on by security forces across iran and killed at least 160 people and the tactics continue to be unbearably indiscriminate. i saw footage of a teenager, shot in the head and apparently has been killed and we haven t gotten exact figures for how many people have died and now many people have been injured today but the footage that we saw, we can say that certainly, they open fire again with live ammunition. what started as a protest over the death of a young woman in custo ....
the prospect of another election, after parties failed to reach agreement on a return to power sharing. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the commander of iran s powerful revolutionary guards has warned protesters that saturday would be their last day of taking to streets. iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22 year old kurdish woman mahsa amini in police custody last month. today s serious warning follows the fatal shooting of a protester in the iranian city of zahedan. activitsts say security forces fired on dozens of people as they left friday prayers in the southern city. robin brant reports. six weeks in, and these protests show no sign of abating. the opposite, in fact. this is zahedan, the scene of violent confrontation again. independent observers claiming the cracked on by security forces the crackdowon by security forces across iran and killed at least 160 people and the tactics continue to be unbearably indis ....
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. i m samantha simmonds. the commander of iran s powerful revolutionary guards has warned protesters that saturday would be their last day of taking to streets. iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22 year old kurdish woman mahsa amini in police custody last month. today s serious warning follows the fatal shooting of a protester in the iranian city of zahedan. activitsts say security forces fired on dozens of people as they left friday prayers in the southern city. with me is parham ghobadi from bbc persian. what do you make of this warning from the revolutionary guard today? it is a really strongly worded comment but it is not unprecedented. from the beginning, the iranian revolutionary guard and their media outlets started comparing protesters to isis fighters, which was unprecedented compared to the previous protests. this time, they said this is the last day, however just now we received fo ....
and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the deal means octopus will take on bulb s 1.5 million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb biggest green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november bulb went into administration. it was only kept going by the government which pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers and taxpayers but also hundreds of staff. today octopus were confident that the takeover of bulb s customers would be smith. octopus has great experience of bringing large numbers of customers across, so for example when the largest to date failed we were able to look after those customers and staff pretty seamlessly, and i think with bulb the experience we have got means we are probably the natural choice. in means w ....
it s expected to reach the capital manila later today. coming up at 2.30 in we are england, we follow the night road teams working against the clock to maintain the a1. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the household energy supplier octopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means octopus will take onboard bulb s 1.5 million customers. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers but also hundreds of staff. today, octopus were co ....