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We begin today with Iran and protests have continued in the country with reports of hundreds of people being killed and injured as the authorities clamp down on the demonstrators.
Information is hard to come by as the regime has attempted to block the internet traffic in the past day or two,
together with threats to charge protesters with crimes that would carry the death penalty.
Iran's rulers have also threatened to retaliate,
should threats from Donald Trump to intervene, to manifest themselves.
Let's start, though, in Mashhad,
a city in the northwest of the country where protesters have hid behind barricade.
as security forces fired shots from a footbridge.
And these are the sounds of protesters in Tehran on Saturday evening,
chanting slogans demanding the end of clerical rule in Iran.
And in the past couple of hours, the Iranian president,
Masoud Pazes Pazeschian, has been giving an interview on state television.
The United States and Israel are sitting there, giving instructions to these people,