this is bbc world news, the headlines. as the investigation continues into an explosion at a petrol station in county donegal — police in ireland name the 10 people who died in friday's disaster. it isa it is a huge impact to us all in the community. they are all local people, they are all very much involved in the community, they were all people who were shopping in their local shop. ukranian officials say 17 people have been killed by a russian missile strike on an apartment block in the south—eastern city zaporizhzia. president putin blames ukrainian secret services for yesterday's blast on the bridge

linking russia to occupied crimea — describing it as an act of terrorism. cabinet ministers are urging tories to rally behind prime minister liz truss, to avoid risk of defeat at the next election. now on bbc news, it's time for our world. for the past year, i have been reporting on the most important story of my life. my name is omid montazaeri, and i'm a reporterfor bbc persia. this story is about a massacre that took place in my home country, iran. in 1988, the iranian government, led by ayatollah khomeini, ordered thousands of political prisoners to be killed.

my father was amongst those killed. i was just two years old. now, for the first time in over 30 years, one of the perpetrators of the killings is on trial, a government official called hamid nouri. this is hamid nouri. he is the first member of the islamic republic ever to stand trial outside iran for atrocities committed in iran. protestors chants. less than 15 hours til verdict and everyone is so anxious.

iraj mesdaghi was a political prisoner at the time of the 1988 prison massacre. an estimated 5,000 prisoners were killed. iraj survived. ever since, he's vowed to bring those responsible to justice. and, he just found out one

of the prison officials, hamid nouri, was planning to come to sweden. iraj contacted lawyers who interviewed witnesses, assembled a case and tipped off the swedish authorities. he sings. back in iran, hamid nouri was celebrating his upcoming trip. radio plays upbeat music.

i travelled to stockholm to cover the trial for bbc persia. hamid nouri was accused of war crimes and murder. bbc news theme music.

in the 1988 massacres, two different groups of political prisoners were killed — members of an armed group known as the mujahideen, and communists. the mujahideen had recently attacked iran from neighbouring iraq. ayatollah khomeini issued a secret decree, a fatwa, saying mujahideen prisoners who refused to repent are waging war against god and are condemned to execution. he ordered, "annihilate the enemies of islam immediately." thousands of mujahideen

prisoners were killed. several hundred leftist political prisoners were also executed. among them was my father, ahmad montazeri, who was killed for being a member of a communist group. the defendant was part of the management of the prison. he was calling out their names, he was bringing them into the so—called death community who eventually made the decision whether the prisoners should be executed or not. he was a god, and he was also bringing the prisoners to the actual place of where they were executed. the prison massacres tore families apart. vida and her husband, majid, met through a communist party in iran.

weeping.

both vida's husband and her brother were killed in the prison massacre. vida testified against hamid nouri. voice off-screen speaks farsi.

in total, 7a people gave evidence. iraj also testified.

the trial is being closely followed by many people whose relatives were executed by the regime. masida lives in england. a0 years ago, her two brothers and sister—in—law were killed for their communist beliefs.

masida is travelling to hear hamid nouri testify. relatives and survivors have, forjustice. tomorrow, masida and vida will go to court together. hamid nouri is about to testify.

the atmosphere inside the court is tense. lots of the families of victim are crying and angry. hamid nouri testified

for six days. protesters chant. his defence echoed, his story of denials from the iranian government, which has never acknowledged a massacre. the current president of iran, ebrahim raisi, was one of the death committee judges, and hamid nouri's boss.

if hamid nouri is found guilty, this could have consequences for raisi. iran still in kills and imprisons political prisoners. i come to cover the verdes. it's around one year that i am reporting about the court in this case. —— the verdict. vida has attended nearly all of the 92 days of the trial.

the bodies of the victims have never been returned to their relatives. the mass grave where many of the bodies were buried has been repeatedly bulldozed by the iranian authorities. less then 15 hours until the verdict and everyone is so anxious. the lawyers said to her that maybe, maybe they do not accept your testimony and it's a lot for her. but she hopes that maybe this intense to life in prison.

it's the day of the verdict. different groups all opposed to the iranian regime are gathering outside the court. among them countless survivors and relatives of victims of the 1988 massacre and other acts of the 1988 massacre and other acts of regime brutality.

the verdict is due to be announced. tensions our high. cheering.

celebrating first of all, it's some kind of expression of what's been a long time. i called my mum and my sister. my mother was put in prison at the sign

time as my father. she was only released because she was pregnant with me. she too has been fighting forjustice ever since. they are crying with x19, they are happy with the other eyes. i want to be besides their families. very possible to be hopeful for exactly what the prosecutor asked for a crime against international law, war crime and murder and life sentence. first of all, i don't think you can hide yourself here if

you've done a crime against humanity. also, if we in sweden can do this this is very good signal to the whole world. the do this this is very good signal to the whole world.— the whole world. the iranian government _ the whole world. the iranian government has _ the whole world. the iranian government has denounced | the whole world. the iranian i government has denounced the the whole world. the iranian _ government has denounced the verdict as politically motivated and said that the charges against hamed norrie were fabricated and baseless. his lawyer say they will appeal. but the survivors and relatives haven't finished either.— finished either. tomorrow we will start again. _ finished either. tomorrow we will start again, the _ finished either. tomorrow we will start again, the new— finished either. tomorrow we will start again, the new case. - finished either. tomorrow we will start again, the new case. and i finished either. tomorrow we will| start again, the new case. and we get to go further. we're not going to stop. now we're going to go to the president of the iranian regime he was very active member, he should pay the price and he should be responsible for what he did in 1988. something feels different now. hamed

norrie is a convicted war criminal. has delighted all of our lives has been officially recognised as a crime.

hello. all of us will see rain at times in the week ahead, though not all the time, there'll be drier, brighter moments too. last week was so very wet in scotland, especially into the western highlands, a decent amount of rain fell. in snowdonia, the cumbrian fells, northern ireland had quite a bit of rain, though east anglia, south east england, just a few millimeters. now, this is how the rain is shaping up over the next five days — and while those areas that were so very wet last week will see more significant rain, though not as much as we had last week. and actually, further south there's a chance for some higher rain totals here as weather systems just start to come in from a more southerly point into the uk, as we'll see in a moment. one area of low pressure is pulling away from the uk into scandinavia on monday and pulling away also a trailing weather front from it from south east england and east anglia where we will start monday with some outbreaks of rain.

elsewhere, there'll be a lot of sunshine first thing, a lot of sunshine will continue. and the blustery conditions, though, across northern and western scotland further showers, may catch one in northern ireland, north west england, north wales, maybe be feeding on the breeze into the north midlands and it will be a cooler feeling day out there. now into tuesday, a ridge of high pressurejust edging in, its influence, being felt the most across southern areas. and with the wind falling light here with clear skies, temperatures are going to drop away. so the coldest to rural parts of southern south east england may well see a touch of frost going into tuesday morning. there may also be a few mist and fog patches around. many places on tuesday with that ridge of high pressure will stay dry. there must be more cloud around, mind you, and a weak weather front will bring the chance of a little light rain towards parts of northern ireland, more especially to north west scotland. so as we go from tuesday to wednesday, that rain is from another area of low pressure and it's training weather fronts, so here it is. 0ther fronts will move in. the rain tending to be more showery in nature, perhaps more patchy in nature but overnight into wednesday will extend through northern ireland

and scotland and then on wednesday through northern and western parts of england into wales too. now ahead of that may not be too much of that rain reaching in towards east anglia in the southeast, at least in daylight hours. and behind it it looks like it clears into northern ireland and north west scotland as the day goes on. now this wet weather moves further south and southeast overnight and into thursday. there is a very, very brief gap before the next weather system coming in, but this one actually moving in from the south west. so actually, the rain hitting different areas on thursday. a lot of dry weather to begin with, but you can see the wetter, windy weather actually coming first into south west england on thursday. through more of the southern half of england into wales and actually southward towards northern ireland, whereas much of northern england and scotland will stay dry until quite late on. that rain will feed through overnight and into friday then around this area of low pressure, some strong winds moving in for friday, gales in places. in fact, for western scotland, we could see some gusts up to around 70 mph or so.

so there could be some disruptive winds on friday and plenty of showers, perhaps even some longer spells of rain running in, particularly to scotland. a lot of fine sunny weather, although very blustery the further south you are. into the weekend, a trailing weather front clearing through on saturday, it's sun and showers. and then another weather system to our south west later in the weekend starting next week starts to feed some wet weather our way. because the weather systems are coming in from that direction it does mean the chance for some higher amounts of rain into parts of england and wales, where all of wales and much of england remain in drought.

tonight at ten, president putin accuses ukraine of terrorism for the attack on a bridge linking russia to occupied crimea. the explosion severely damaged an important supply route for russian forces in ukraine. tonight president putin said this: translation: there is no doubt that this is an act of terrorism, . aimed at destroying russia's critically important civilian infrastructure. this was devised, carried out and ordered by the ukrainian special services. meanwhile, russian missile strikes in the dead of night kill at least 13 people in the southern city of zaporizhzhia. president zelensky said ukraine's civilian population was subjected to constant terror by russia. also on the programme...

the faces of the ten victims of an explosion in county donegal —