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narges mohammadi has been arrested 13 times, convicted five times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison. the committee said her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal cost. iran s state news agency says the decision is politicising the human rights issue . caroline hawley reports. in iran last year, spearheaded by women, an extraordinary rebellion set off by the death in police custody of a young woman detained for allegedly not wearing her veil properly. the nobel committee said this award was for the hundreds of thousands of iranians who have stood up against the theocratic regime s policies of discrimination and oppression against women. narges mohammadi is iran s most prominent human rights activist. here she was several years ago, criticising the regime for forcing women to wear the hijab while allowing corruption to run rampant. she s currently serving a ten year sentence. her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal cost. altogether, t ....
hello, i m anita mcveigh, welcome to verified live. there have been dramatic political developments in edinburgh, where scotland s first minister, humza yousaf, has announced that he s resigning. he s been under growing pressure after he ripped up a power sharing deal with the scottish green party. as a result, he was facing two separate votes of no confidence. in an emotional statement earlier today, mr yousaf said he was not willing to trade his values and principles, simply to hold on to power. let s take a listen to the moment he announced his resignation. i am not willing to trade my values and principles or do deals with whomever simply for retaining power. therefore, after spending the weekend reflecting on what is best for my party, for the government, and for the country i lead, i have concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm. i have therefore informed the snp s national secretary of my ....
hello, i m annita mcveigh, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has said he s hopeful that hamas will accept what he described as an extraordinarily generous gaza ceasefire offer from israel. mr blinken, who is attending talks with his regional counterparts in saudi arabia, was speaking as a delegation from hamas attended parallel ceasefire negotiations in cairo. after weeks of impasse, hamas is reported to have no major issues with a revised plan approved by israel. it s said to include new wording on a cessation of hostilities. mr blinken reaffirmed us opposition to a planned israeli offensive on rafah city, saying he s seen no plan that protects civilians there. 20 people died in the latest israeli airstrikes. at this moment, the only thing standing between the people of gaza and a ceasefire is hamas. they have to decide, and they have to decide quickly. so we ....
in case of an emergency. on sunday, suella braverman called for a review into armed policing. her intervention was welcomed by the metropolitan police commissioner, sir mark rowley. in an open letter, he called for an urgent reset, writing that improvements to the met police were being undermined by a system not set up to help officers succeed, identifying police pursuits and the use of force as areas of the most glaring unfairness. he said officers need sufficient legal protection to do theirjob and keep the public safe, because they re now more afraid of years of uncertainty for them and theirfamilies in the legal system than they are of confronting dangerous or armed criminals and terrorists. it all comes after a met police officer was charged on thursday with the murder of unarmed chris kaba last year. the 24 year old was fatally shot in a borrowed car in south london, a car the police say was linked to an incident involving a gun. the met police are keen to stress ....
well, this was the liz truss economics and it led to disaster. there is no magical connection between cutting income tax one day and getting growth the next. economic growth is a difficult process. it is about raising productivity and things we have been talking about for 50 or 60 years. getting the economy moving will involve things like long term industrial strategy, concentrating on improved training, something we have been trying to do for a long time. butjust income tax is a magic money tree economics that makes no sense. there is a short term feeling that an election is coming closer with rishi sunak s queen s speech. have the lib dems got to compromise some of their ideas on things like house building where the target has been for 300,000 houses to make things affordable for young people and now they are talking about cutting that in half and just going for affordable quality housing, in order to win over conservative voters? well, the country does need more hous ....