correspondent that figure could be higher. rana rahimpour has this report. women across iran are setting their hijabs on fire. they are tired of being beaten up by the morality police for not observing strict islamic dress code. cheering and applause. their anger was sparked by the death of this woman, mahsa amini. she wasjust 22. she was arrested by the morality police in tehran earlier this month. they said she wasn t wearing the mandatory hijab properly. they say she died of a heart condition, but eyewitnesses say she was beaten up in the police van. her father told me she was a healthy young woman with no medical condition. translation: i still cannot believe she s dead. - i don t want to believe she s not alive. iranian state media are saying she had health conditions before, but that s a lie.
translation: when i refused to take the call-up papers, - an official said, suit yourself, but you ll be sent to prison for ten years . she said it was against the law to refuse the draft. the public s being told the motherland is in danger. the message from the russian authorities to the russian people is we had to call up the reservists. the west is trying to destroy us. nato is waging a war against us. this is a fight for russia s future. but some russians have now concluded that for them there is no future here. at russia s border with georgia, the queue of cars was unusually long as some russian men of fighting age tried to leave the country. i heard some speeches. viktor has decided to leave russia because of the call up. viktor is not his real name he s asked us to hide his identity. there is a choice
translation: i asked why they did not transfer her i to the hospital and they said the ambulance s key was lost for 20 minutes and they could not find it. can you believe this? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. many russian citizens are trying to flee their country to escape the military mobilisation announced by vladimir putin. tickets for direct flights between russia and serbia have sold out, and there are long queues on other border crossings. president putin s order to mobilise 300,000 russian reservists to fight in ukraine led to protests on wednesday, at which more than a thousand people were reportedly arrested.
here automatic weapons as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition seized. it is said to be the first time an investigation of this type has been launched in iceland, which has a population ofjust 375,000. local media reports officers were exploring potential links to nordic far right groups and that the police with a central target. translation: we police with a central target. translation: police with a central target. translation: ~ ., . translation: we have conducted iar: er translation: we have conducted larger operations translation: we have conducted larger operations but translation: we have conducted larger operations but not translation: we have conducted larger operations but not like i larger operations but not like this one and this is a factor. of course we have looked at the of course we have looked at the fact that various things have been happening in europe, including the nature of terrorist acts.- terrorist acts. the four icelanders terrorist acts. the four
welcome to bbc news i m tim willcox. our top stories: fleeing the draft. the russians leaving the country to avoid being sent to fight in ukraine. translation: when i refused to take the call-up papers, - an official said, suit yourself, but you ll be sent to prison for ten years . back in ukrainian hands, but still under russian attack. a special report from the city of kupiansk. police in iceland arrest four people allegedly involved in preparations for the first ever terrorist attack on the island. unrest continues to spread across iran after the death of a woman detained by the morality police . her father says, they lied about how she died.