Supremes court is due to rule shortly on whether Prime Minister points johnson acted legally when he shut down parliament. But 1st the deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding adding to Major Concerns about security days out from the president ial election no one is yet certain exactly what happened in the most a collar region of Helmand Province on sunday night the government says the army was targeting a taliban Training Base where they killed fight is arrested others the question is why so many civilians died Robert Bryant has more from kabul. Both sides it seems are still trying to ascertain exactly what happened on sunday night what everybody is agreed on of course is that there has been a substantial loss of life part of the problem here is mr cuyler district is a taliban stronghold deep in Helmand Province it is a very remote area but the ministry of defense says it is trying to launch an investigation to find out exactly what happened but it is sticking with what he was saying
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President has declared that people have the right to protest and criticises government but not resort to violence and vandalism. His comments are the first by a senior figure in iran since widespread protests began on thursday. Police in tehran used water cannon on the crowds. There were reports from at least a dozen cities up and down the country. President rohani has made a comment on the unrest, days after they started, the first iranians leader to do so. He said iranianss had a right to protest but not to violence and destruction. The wave of demonstrations throughout the country of demonstrations throughout the cou ntry started of demonstrations throughout the country started on thursday, here in the north east, with what was supposed to be a small protest sponsored by the hardliners to criticise the economic policies of the government of president rohani, something that quickly got out of control. Earlier in the day, the goverment moved to limit access in iran to the internet and
In tehran on saturday. Theyve restricted access to the popular social media messaging app telegram, which Officials Say has been used to foment violence. In his first comments on the unrest, president Hassan Rouhani said iranians have the right to protest and criticise the government, but their actions shouldnt lead to violence or damage public property. Alan johnston has more. On the protests go. Water cannon, deployed in the heart of tehran late on this fourth day of unrest in the streets. As they marched down one of the capitals avenues, they made their feelings known. Death to the dictator, they chanted. On saturday night, gunshots rang out in a western city. A casualty is carried away. Two people died. But officials insist the police didnt open fire. They blame the deaths on provocateurs in the crowd. Translation in these clashes, traces of groups and anti regime media and western Intelligence Services are visible. In these clashes, no bullets were fired by the police, military or
Moron and. The author of a tell all book about donald trump insists his work is fact is that it stalls despite a bed by the president to block it. First the phone call now the two sides will be face to face north korea agrees to hold talks with the south plus. Im wayne hay in northern thailand home to many ethnic minority groups many People Living in these hills who lived generations but still cant officially call thailand home. So that the u. N. Security council is jus to hold a special session to discuss recent protests in iran this with the United States accusing tehran of stifling the voices of its people iranian leaders say larger progovernment rallies suggest other was otherwise this is the scene at the Security Council ahead of that meeting the situation is that its an open meeting on the protests in iran it being made the request the United States but its likely that russia will cool a procedural vote russia and some of the countries that believe these protests should be on the