this is bbc world news, the headlines: a fire has broken out at the notorious evin prison in the iranian capital tehran, where political prisoners including dozens of foreign nationals are being held. iranian state media says the fire is now under control. rescue workers have found the body of the last missing miner at a coal mine in northern turkey. president erdogan visited the scene and confirmed forty "41 workers were killed in the suspected methane blast. here in the uk, as prime minister liz truss fights for herjob, the new chancellorjeremy hunt has signaled he'll make major changes to her economic policy. astronomers have detected what may

be the most powerful flash of light ever seen — from an event that occurred 2.4 billion light years from earth. now on bbc news, ourworld: fighting putin's propaganda. tv rain, russia's last remaining opposition tv station, was forced off air in march 2022. our world follows senior presenters trying to relaunch tv rain from exile. in march, russia's last independent tv station went off air. tv rain opposed russia's war in ukraine and challenged the kremlin�*s propaganda machine. this narrative about massive support of this war is false, so that is what they did to us.

the journalists of tv rain, including senior presenters katya and tikhon were forced to flee the country. our world joins the power couple on their mission to relaunch the channel from exile. i am scared to death. can they fight the kremlin? they believe their weapon is the truth. it's june 2022. among them, tikhon dzyadko, from moscow. he's editor—in—chief of tv rain, russia's last

independent tv channel. his wife is katya kotrikadze — she's tv rain�*s director of news. having escaped russia, they and a few colleagues have found temporary refuge in georgia. everyone here is united by their opposition to the war and their love for the festival headliners, okean elzy. this is a ukrainian band. they are fighting for the country, just like every ukrainian is. sometimes i feel like i am more ukrainian than russian. i want people to understand that there are russians who are against this. katya and tikhon are russian tv personalities. forfour months, tv rain has been off air.

now the plan is to relaunch the channel as quickly as possible. cheering and applause when tv rain — dozhd in russian — launched in 2010, the channel offered a new, progressive vision of russia. founded by media entrepreneur natalya sindeeva, its programming focused on lifestyle and culture. voiceover: dozhd. optimistic channel. but that soon changed. during this period of time, tv rain has gone through the biggest

events and biggest parts of russian history. in 2011, tv rain exclusively covered mass anti—government protests in moscow, while state media self—censored. then, in 2013, it broadcast ukraine's maidan uprising. if you want to follow what is happening in kyiv, you should watch dozhd. we had a lot, a lot of viewers. by contrast, kremlin—controlled media portrayed ukraine's revolution as a western—backed coup.

to stay on air, the channel switched to viewer subscriptions. it's getting more and more subscribers. millions of people who watch youtube, not television, old—school.

on 24th february, tikhon broke the news about russia's invasion of ukraine. the feeling was absolutely astonishing. like, you... she gasps you can't breathe. tv rain took a firm anti—war position. after the war has started, it became obvious that we were one of the biggest problems in terms of informational war for moscow.

we had 25 million views on youtube daily, which is a huge amount of people. this amount of people could show that this narrative about massive support of this war is false, so that's why they have killed us. meanwhile state media echoed the kremlin line... ..that russia's invasion of ukraine was just a special military operation, not a war. then, president putin signed a law that would jail for up to 15 years anyone who questioned the war. this law was adopted specifically to get rid of anyone who would be against this government, openly and actively. on 1st march, the kremlin shut down tv rain�*s website. katya received a call

from a journalist friend. he said, "grab your kids and leave the country". and i was absolutely dead on that moment. we understood that it is impossible to work in such conditions, and we decided to stop operations. when tv rain made its last broadcast from moscow on 3rd march, katya and tikhon had already left the country. staff were wondering whether they would ever work together again.

since leaving russia, katya and tikhon have spent the last four months in tbilisi. katya was born here, but moved to moscow when she was ten. katya's mother was one of more than 200 people killed after bombs

destroyed two apartment blocks in moscow in september 1999. chechen militants were blamed for the attacks, but there were credible allegations russian security services planted the bombs to justify a war in chechnya and to assist vladimir putin's rise to power. the memory of her mother inspired katya to pursue her

career injournalism. there are a lot of theories about responsibility of vladimir putin and the fsb of russia. as a journalist, i don't have evidence, but what i know about his policy and russian state policy is that they...they really want to forget about these people. i used to live in the united states, i remember every single year on september 11th, what was going on there, how they remember, how they say every single name of the 3,000 people who died. i was trying to understand, what is wrong with my country, what's wrong with my country, what's wrong with my president and what's wrong with the whole

20—plus years of his presidency in russia, that my mum doesn't deserve to be remembered? before the channel's official relaunch, tikhon and katya have been producing their own new stream on youtube with the help of georgia's formula tv. one of the main ideas of russian propaganda over these last 20—plus years is to make people not believe anyone.

when you listen to so many different versions, you think that there is no truth, because it could be anything.

this is one of the main parts of the mission that we have, to reach the guys who are actually pro—war. i think that there is a possibility to talk to them and it is one of the main things that we are working on right now is to find a tone of voice. tikhon has called an important

meeting for staff worldwide. tv rain is due to relaunch, but not here in georgia. its new headquarters will be in riga, latvia, in the european union. many russians who have left their country oppose the war, but the channel must connect with those who have stayed behind.

the discussion turns to the question of language. while in georgia, katya has strived to give her children a sense of normality. but once again, the family is preparing to move. to latvia, the new home of tv rain.

david is sure that this is something very temporary and he's going to be back to moscow soon. so, yeah. we are all very emotional. it's not easy to understand that it's gonna last for a long time. it's like my son, david, who thinks he will be back to school in a year, maximum. there are a lot of colleagues who are saving their hopes about going back to russia soon. if i accept this thought that i am in immigration and i'm staying in latvia or in europe for a while, and maybe for ten years or 20 years, then it's gonna be even harder to work, it's then it's going to be even harder to work. it's going to be harder to fight. it's july 2022, riga. it's the day of tv rain�*s relaunch.

the family have been in latvia for only a week. with the support from a latvia's tv3 group and independent financial backing, tv rain has a newsroom again. a reunited team are discussing

what will be in the first programme.

i am overexcited and i'm scared and i'm nervous. i know tikhon will be perfect, he always is. i'm praying for everything to be right. tv rain is streaming live on youtube, which, for now, is still available in russia.

already, tens of thousands are watching. we are not there. we're not on the ground. we need to find the way to be as honest, as professional as we were. it's a huge stress and a huge trauma for russians to understand, to acknowledge that their country right now is on the other side, that their country is an aggressor, actually. right now the only thing that we can do is to spread information, fight propaganda, put the facts in front of people.

cheering i don't want to be a part of a political fight. unfortunately, we are part of a political fight, but it's not our choice to be there. we just wanted to be journalists. our mission is to be there for russian citizens, for people who live in russia — who want better russia. since its relaunch from latvia, tv rain�*s audience has grown. in september, 1a million viewers inside russia watched its content on youtube. i think tv rain can stop putin. i think citizens of

russia can stop putin. hello. there's nothing out of the ordinary in the forecast as we head through the second half of october. typical autumn fare, which is what we've been seeing through this weekend. we had an area of low pressure pushing north and eastwards, that's brought some showers and longer spells of rain. as we head into sunday, a second system arriving from the southwest but in—between, a quieter spell of weather. so for many of us we'll start sunday

dry with plenty of sunshine. still some showers lingering across scotland, northern england and northern ireland. they'll soon fade. then we'll see the second system pushing in from the southwest, increasing the cloud, bringing outbreaks of rain into southwest england, wales and northern ireland through the afternoon. temperatures on a par with what we saw on saturday, so 11—13 celsius across the north of the uk and 14—18 celsius further south. for the week ahead it's mainly dry at first. a wet and windier spell midweek with some rain later in the week but mostly frost free. so this is how we start the new week, with this area of low pressure pushing its way north and eastwards, taking that sunday rain across the whole of the uk. likely to linger through monday, that area of low pressure, across scotland so still some stronger winds here, showers or longer spells of rain and this band of cloud and patchy rain could take its time to clear from southeast england. elsewhere, a dry day, plenty of sunshine, those winds will gradually be easing. it'll be warm in the sunshine as well with temperatures quite widely in the mid if not high teens. as we head into tuesday that area

of low pressure finally drifts away north and eastwards. the isobars become further apart so the winds will be lighter. frontal systems just fringing the far south of england so we could see some cloud lingering here through the morning. but for most, a mainly dry day, plenty of sunshine. could see some mist and low cloud pushing in to parts of northeast england and eastern scotland but those winds will be much lighter on tuesday so where we've got the sunshine, temperatures perhaps getting up to 18, even 19 celsius across parts of central and southern england. but then all change again as we move from tuesday into wednesday. our next atlantic system pushing gradually in from the southwest. also strengthening the wind, so a stronger southeasterly wind. that'll also be pushing mist and low cloud along many eastern coasts. meanwhile, we've got outbreaks of rain and some very gusty winds pushing into southern and southwest england, wales and northern ireland and we could see gales along some southern and southwestern coasts for a time on wednesday, so a bit of a mixed day.

a slice perhaps of sunshine in—between that cloud and the band of rain with temperatures here getting up to 16 or 17 celsius but feeling a little bit cooler where we've got cloud and the rain. as we head through from wednesday into thursday this frontal system is slowly pushing its way northeastwards, running into an area of high pressure, so a lot of the rain will tend to fizzle out but we keep some showers across northern england, scotland, wales and southwest england. a lot of cloud for many but increasing amounts of sunshine from the south as the day wears on and temperatures still in that range of the mid—teens, perhaps up to 17 or 18 celsius across the southern half of england, but still frost free overnight. you can see what's going to happen as we head through friday and into the weekend, this area of low pressure dominating the situation so there'll be showers, longer spells of rain, also some gusty winds as well. it looks like low pressure stays in charge as we move into the following week. for the week ahead, it's starting dry, some unsettled weather midweek with some stronger winds and it's likely we'll keep outbreaks of rain and stronger winds as we head

through into the weekend. that's all from me, goodbye.