this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk government will call a snap election in northern ireland, after politicians in the devolved government failed to restore power—sharing at stormont. a date hasn't yet been announced. a 42—year—old man is charged with attempted murder, after the husband of the us democratic house speaker nancy pelosi was attacked in their california home. a new wave of deadly clashes in iran — with security forces firing on protestors. there have been a number of confirmed injuries, but it's not known how many people have been killed. a woman who murdered and decapitated herfriend, before dumping her body in a suitcase, has been sentenced to life in jail. jemma mitchell is the first murderer to be sentenced on television in england and wales.

elon musk tweets �*let the good times roll�* — after he buys social media giant twitter for more than a0 billion dollars, and clears out top executives. # ...balls of fire!# and jerry lee lewis, a leading figure of rock and roll — whose life was marred by scandal and violence — has died at the age of 87. the northern ireland secretary has said voters in northern ireland will be going to the polls for the second time in 12 months to vote yet again for members of the stormont assembly. after a midnight deadline to break months of gridlock passed — chris heaton—harris said an election must be held within 12 weeks — although he did not give a date. back in may, for the first time —

the nationalist party sinn fein won the largest number of seats in the stormont assembly. but the biggest unionist party — the dup — has refused to restore power—sharing, because it says northern ireland's place in the uk has been undermined by the post—brexit trade deal — signed by boris johnson. that deal — the protocol, means that goods transported from great britain to northern ireland — are subject to checks. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy, reports. political paralysis, on the horizon for some time, now set in. as the midnight deadline came and went, civil servants, not ministers any more, are running northern ireland. today, the secretary of state said he would still call an election but left out over a date, saying he wanted to talk more to the parties first. i have limited options ahead of me. i am under a legal duty to call an election within 12 weeks. i have had lots and lots of talks with all the parties and will continue to do so.

bbc news, there was the option to legislate to delay this moment. how does calling an election help solve any of the problem for northern ireland that got us here? nearly all the parties have been saying this won't help the situation actually signed up to the rules that make this situation happen. why call it now? i am legally bound to do so. and those rules state it must be held within 12 weeks. alongside carol singers, voters are now expecting campaigning politicians on their doorstep in the run—up to christmas but beyond that, nobody really thinks there is any greater prospect of power—sharing coming back. the dup maintains they will only go back into government if major changes are made to the brexit arrangements. i am ready to fight an election, if the secretary of state wants to hold an election, then he should tell us and we will prepare for that election but if not, then let's focus on what really needs to be done,

which is to find a solution which restores northern ireland's place within the united kingdom and removes the protocol and the harm it is doing to our relationship with the rest of the uk. what i am concerned about is that we need an assembly executive up and running, we need to have one functioning to serve the people well, to get them through these tough times. we are all left wondering what is going to happen next and what is the motivation behind what the secretary of state has done this evening. not having a government means the ability to help communities with immediate challenges is severely limited. for many families, that means facing the cost of living crisis with political leaders absent. we are struggling, not even week to week but day to day, trying to put food on the table. james manages a community hub in belfast and says families are increasingly dependent on the voluntary services here, and that he is in the same boat. you know, i used to run a food hub from my house, over covid. i am now, there are times

that i am having to go to the food programme and say, we are really struggling. yourself? ourselves, and as a manager, it is humiliating. another election, james believes, provides no new answers. but i don't believe that the people who are they really want stormont to work. and with patients facing the longest waiting lists in the uk, doctors are warning the health service is a major casualties of this crisis. what will this winter look like for health care workers if there is no functioning government? we already know that it is really, really difficult, even with the government. we just can't cope with the demand that is there at the moment. six months ago, we should have had an executive and a budget, not only a budget but a multi—year budget which would have allowed us to do things vastly differently and we would have seen those changes. now, there are lots and lots of plans that are there. the polarised politics

of power—sharing means stormont has only functioned for two of the last six years. for many people, today marks a return to problems that northern ireland has faced all too often before. from stormont, our ireland correspondent chris page had the latest. chris heaton—harris, the government minister in london who has responsibility for northern ireland had made it clear repeatedly over the last few weeks that he would be calling an election whenever the deadline for the restoration of the regional government at stormont ran out. that has happened at one minute past midnight. he reference that particular time on a number of occasions and at one stage told parliamentary committee in london, i cannot be clearer that calling and election will happen on october friday the 28. it turns out, that isn't quite what has happened friday

october the 28th, in that a date for an election has not been set. the stormont parties had been fully expecting that that date would be announced today, they are already preparing to go out to the polls on the most likely date, the 15th of december. and they were quite surprised it seems whenever that date was not forthcoming. now chris heaton—harris says he is still calling an election, he really insists on that. he said he met the chief electoral organiser, if you like, in northern ireland this afternoon to discuss some of the issues around actually making an election happen. he says, he is going to say more about an election next week. a man has been charged with attempted murder following an attack on the husband of the us democratic house speaker nancy pelosi. san francisco police, responding to an emergency call, burst into the pelosis' house

where they found 82 year old paul pelosi with an intruder who'd been shouting "where is nancy? our washington correspondent nomia iqbal has more. this incident has shocked lawmakers on both side. including president biden who spoke to nancy pelosi on the phone and said he is praying for paul pelosi's quick recovery. we know that this attack happened in the early hours in the morning. the assailant broke into the pelosi's house in san francisco with a hammer. there have been lots of different things that have been reported. but the police chief of san francisco, william scott gave a press conference earlier today, let's listen to what he said. when the officers arrived on scene, they encountered an adult male and mr pelosi's husband, paul. our officers observe mr pelosi and the suspect holding a hammer. he pulled the hammer away from mr pelosi and violently

assaulted him with it. our officers tackled the suspect and took him into custody and requested emergency back—up and rendered medical aid. suspect has been as a 42—year—old david. mr pelosi and he were transported to a local hospital for treatment. that is police officer giving more details. what is not confirmed is when the assailant broke in the house he was shouting, where is nancy? where is nancy? it is also reported he tried to tie up paul pelosi in order to wait for nancy pelosi to turn up. she wasn't in the house, she is here in dc and campaigning and fundraising with the democratic party ahead of the mid—term elections that are due to happen in under two weeks' time. police think this was a targeted attack but as of yet no motive has been established.

there's been a new wave of deadly clashes in iran today, with security forces firing on protestors. activitsts say dozens of people were fired upon after emerging from friday prayers in the southern city of zahedan, the capital of the sistan—baluchistan province, bordering pakistan. it's not known how many have been killed. automatic gunfire is clearly audible in footage seen and verified by the bbc. there'd been a build—up of security forces earlier in the day. today's protests in zahedan follow a similar crackdown in the same city nearly a month ago, during protests against the death of mahsa amini. shayan sardarizadeh is from bbc monitoring and has been following the footage from iran. protests have been continuing today, the biggest of that was in zahedan. as you said, just a month ago there was a really deadly rally

in that city which iranian protesters now refer to as bloody friday. after friday prayers about a month ago, protesters rallied in the city and something close to between 90 and 100 protesters were actually shot dead by security forces and riot police, including several children. since then every friday has been processed. most, since then. because of the backlash that happened after that deadly friday protest nearly one month ago. today, once again security forces opening fire on protesters. i saw a video today of a teenager getting shot in the head and unfortunately getting killed. i have seen videos of people covered in blood in other parts of zahedan, really disturbing scenes. what is curious about this is just yesterday we heard reports in iranian state media saying that the head of the police force in zahedan had actually been sacked because of his response to the protests a month ago

in which 100 protesters were killed. so this is again another protest in zahedan which has been responded with violence by security forces and so far what we have seen violent crackdown on protesters hasn't worked. in fact it has intensified the protests. bear in mind this is one of the poorest areas of iran, many of the population there are actually sunni muslim. paint us a picture of what we know is happening more than one month after the protesters first erupted after the death of this young woman are high up the authorities are shifting and changing their response. today, the iranian authorities have been hoping that these protests with a combination of a complete dismissal of their existence, and the reasons for why people are protesting people

are protesting and also a very brutal and deadly crackdown that these protests would go away. these times around things appear to be different. not only have these protests not gone away but we have seen the last couple of days that they have actually intensified, they have become bigger. two nights ago, as iranians took to the streets to commemorate a0 days since the passing of mahsa amini whose death started the uprising. we saw some of the biggest crowds that we have seen in the last 42 days. some of the towns and cities that have not seen any unrest, we saw large crowds of people coming out and once again yesterday and today we are seeing in schools, universities in some towns and cities people are protesting and another tactic that people are using is marking of passing

of other young women and teenagers who were killed within the last six weeks and have become the faces of the protest. at the moment, what we're seeing is that the regime does really not have an answer to this unrest and the protests are likely to continue for some time. a man has been arrested in connection with the murder of nine—year—old olivia pratt—korbel in liverpool. olivia was fatally shot in the chest at her home in liverpool in august as a gunman chased convicted burglarjoseph nee, into their home. merseyside police said the man had been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. in a legal first, the sentencing of a murderer has been televised and broadcast live in england and wales. a judge gavejemma mitchell life in prison for killing herfriend from church, and then dumping her decapitated body in devon. helena wilkinson reports. this isjemma mitchell on her way to mee kuen chong's house. hours later, she murders her and put her body in the big blue suitcase. miss chong, also known as deborah, was friends with the former osteopath. both devout christians, they met through the church, but they fell out over money.

today, history was made at the old bailey. mitchell became the first murderer and the first woman to be sentenced on television in england and wales. you have shown absolutely no remorse, and it appears that you are in complete denial as to what you did, notwithstanding what, in myjudgment, amounted to overwhelming evidence against you. the enormity of your crime is profoundly shocking. mitchell kept miss chong's body for two weeks. she then drove over 200 miles away to salcombe in devon. charlotte rollings was with family on holiday when they found the headless body. you could see some fabric and it was the body of a lady. initially, i thought maybe she slipped over,

but then on closer look, her hand was left on her skirt and it was so white, you knew she wasn't alive. mitchell soon became the prime suspect, and was arrested. jemma, at this moment, i'm arresting you on suspicion of murder. _ today, in a victim impact statement read to court, deborah chong's sister amy said, "i can't begin to believe... mitchell will spend at least 3a years in prison, for what was a chilling and calculated murder of herfriend. helena wilkinson, bbc news. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: jerry lee lewis has died at the age of 87.

donald trump has welcomed elon musk�*s 44 billion dollar takeover of twitter, saying the social media platform is now "in sane hands". the former us president was banned from twitter after being accused of inciting violence in january last year. twitter�*s head of legal policy at the time has now been sacked, along with its chief executive, by the new owner. james clayton reports. elon musk. to his many fans, one of the most innovative and influential people in the world. he is certainly the richest. he made his money with paypal and is now the boss of the electric car firm tesla. he also owns spacex and his starlink satellite network provides internet access round the world, and now he adds to his portfolio twitter, the small

but mighty social network. "let that sink in," he said, walking into twitter hq carrying, yes, a sink. elon musk is a prolific tweeter, with more than 110 million followers. he is now calling himself chief twit. "the bird is freed", he tweeted, followed later by "let the good times roll." but what does the tech billionaire want to do with it? he has previously said he wanted to see twitter become more open to free speech. if he starts to see a certain type of free speech environment, eg, one where anything goes, might become a hellscape, as he said, and that might see people leave, in which case advertisers who are paying to be on the site might get concerned, because there will be fewer eyeballs looking at their ads. he is going to have to strike the right balance between the kind of content moderation he needs to keep investors and customers happy and his free speech ideals. all of this matters because twitter has become the place where world leaders, opinion formers and politicians come

to share their views. it is a kind of direct line between the decision makers and us, the people they represent. elon musk says we need an digital town square, a community space for public discussion, and twitter, he argues, is it. several top execs have already been sacked, and for those who remain, they need to know musk means business. i suspect they will want to get some degree of certainty that elon musk isn't going to be running it like he runs his twitter account. his twitter account is full of memes and jokes. people want a degree of seriousness. they consider this an important product in the world. there is lots of speculation about whether musk�*s takeover will mean the return of the most high—profile person on twitter�*s banned list, former us president donald trump. he said on his own truth social media platform that twitter is now in sane hands, but he has no plans to return — for now. zoe kleinman, bbc news.

pakistan's former prime minister, imran khan has begun leading a week—long march of his supporters from the eastern city of lahore to the capital islamabad demanding early elections. it's after he was ousted in april after losing a confidence vote in parliament. our reporter tarhub asghar is in lahore. right asghar is in lahore. now i am here in one of the iconic right now i am here in one of the iconic spots for the prime minister imran kahn as to gather here so that he can move formally to start his long march. you can see how the houses are people who are actually here and they came here on the call of their leader, imran kahn. six months ago imran kahn was voted out from office and since then he has been holding rallies and public

bases to ramp up pressure on establishment for them to announce elections. you can see people a year, theirfamilies elections. you can see people a year, their families who came elections. you can see people a year, theirfamilies who came here, this long march is approximately... where they will go to islamabad. one of the leading figures of rock and roll, jerry lee lewis had died aged 87. his song "great balls of fire" was a world wide hit and he was one of the original inductees in the rock and roll hall of fame. david sillito looks back at the life of a music legend. # baby you can't go wrong # my my talent is proving to be what it is, the greatest talent in the field of music. if

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going. jerry lee lewis who has died at the age of 87. his agent describing him as the last great birth of rock and roll. i'm delighted that we can speak to the saxophonist who played with jerry lee lewis, having come off stage in central london especially to speak to us. thank you very much for taking the time. tell us about your memories arejerry lee lewis and what it was like working with him. it's really weird standing here listening to some of the tapes you are playing back, hearing his voice. obviously, some of those recordings are when he was a really young. when ijoin his band i was 19 years old, by that point he was probably in his early 60s. in his own description you thought he was an old man but he still had this incredible power when he sat behind a piano and started

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