this is bbc news. i'm rich preston. our top stories: a new wave of deadly clashes in iran — with security forces firing on anti—government protestors. a man is charged with attempted murder after the husband of the us democratic house speaker, nancy pelosi, was attacked in their california home. the two candidates in the running to be brazil's next president are due to take part in a final televised debate before the final vote on sunday. the british government will call a snap election in northern ireland — after politicians in the devolved administration fail to restore power—sharing at stormont. # great balls of fire! and the music industry pays tribute tojerry lee lewis,

one of rock and roll�*s all—time greats, who's died aged eighty seven. hello — you're watching bbc news. there's been a new wave of deadly clashes in iran. activitsts say security forces fired on dozens of people as they left friday prayers in the southern city of zahedan. it follows a similar crackdown in the same city nearly a month ago, during protests over the death of mahsa amini. robin brant reports. six weeks in and these protests show no sign of abating. the opposite in fact. this is zahedan, the scene of violent confrontation again.

and the tactics continue to be unbearably indiscriminate. i saw footage of a teenager, a child, shot in the head who apparently has been killed and they haven't gotten exact figures for how many people have died, how many people have been injured today but as you said, from the footage that we saw, we can say that certainly, they opened fire again with live ammunition. what started out as a protest over the death of a young woman in custody because of how she wore her hijab is now a chaotic and increasingly deadly confrontation between some of iran's people and its religious leaders. any tactic that they had been used in previous rounds of previous protests including 2009 and 2017,

to crack down and get people to go back home, those tactics are not working this time around. there is a wave of anger in these protests that is unlike anything i personally have ever seen and i have been reporting for years and years and this is unique. iran's military claims that the us was conspiring with others to spark the riots. meanwhile, the united nations has raised a list of issues with iran that it's deeply worried about. of particular concern is information that authorities have been moving injured protesters from hospitals to detention facilities. refused to release the bodies of those killed to their families and delivered the deceased on the condition that theirfamilies do not hold a funeral or that theirfamilies do not speak the media. in one protest video verified by the news agency afp, people are seen shouting �*death to the dictator�*

aimed at irans supreme leader. as the protests continue in various cities, campaigners a suspect is facing charges including attempted murder after the husband of the leading us democrat, nancy pelosi, was attacked with a hammer at the couple's home in san francisco. us media reports said the intruder shouted, "where's nancy?" during the assault on paul pelosi. mrs pelosi was in washington at the time. 0ur north america editor, sarah smith, reports. police say the intruder used a hammer to smash glass doors and break into the pelosi home, shouting, "where's nancy?" this appears to be a targeted attack. he tried to tie up paul pelosi to wait for his wife to come home. she was in washington at the time. police arrived as the attack was happening. 0ur officers observed mr pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer away from mr pelosi and violently assaulted him with it.

82—year—old paul pelosi is in hospital undergoing brain surgery. the suspect will be charged with attempted homicide. nancy! 0h, nancy! during the attack on the capitol on january sixth last year, rioters were specifically searching for nancy pelosi. she'd been evacuated from the building by police. later, she blamed donald trump for inciting the riot and putting politicians in danger. it shouldn't be that not only is the president of the united states inciting an insurrection, but keeps fanning the flame, endangering the security of members of congress. president biden says he is praying for mr pelosi's recovery. republican leaders have also condemned the attack. violent political threats and attacks have increased alarmingly in america in the last few years. some senior politicians are now worried that it won't be long before one of them is killed.

sarah smith, bbc news, washington. there are reports the suspect posted multiple conspiracy theories on social media. 0ur north america correspondent anthony zurcher has more. we anthony zurcher has more. know that he was talkir about we know that he was talking about conspiracy theories. he was embroiled in right wing fever swap of conspiracies focusing on anti—government rhetoric and specifically rhetoric and specifically rhetoric targeting democrats. it seems like, again, this is someone who was immersed in someone who was immersed in some of the fringes of social media and online rate wing hate speech. he was connected to all of this and it is a problem that we see coming up again and again. when i talk to politicians on both the left and the right they blame much of what is going on right now with social lies this week with

social media with the 24—hour news cycle where politicians are on television all the time and in people's faces all the time and become a common site so people around the country focus on politicians and take what they say personally. but there may be a cooling of the rhetoric from politics that went politicians, not referring to an opponent as evil and destroying america, that an election outcome will either save america or be a mortal threat to the country. this kind of escalated rhetoric may make certain people who have a predisposition to violence more likely to take action and if that rhetoric can be tapped down, perhaps that is a solution although it is hard to see this deescalating any time soon. let's get some of the day's other news. more than 70 people are now

known have died in flash floods and landslides in the philippines. dangerous weather conditions continue as tropical storm nalgae batters the country. many of the victims are from towns in the southern province of maguindanao. the storm is expected to reach its peak this weekend. officials say nearly 5,000 people have already been evacuated. russia's defence minister says 300,000 reservists have now been mobilised to fight in the war in ukraine. sergei shoigu was shown on tv telling president putin that some had already been sent into conflict zones, while the rest were still being trained. but a member of russia's parliament has warned that recruits are being sent to the front line without proper instruction. the two candidates in brazil's presidential run—off election will take part in a final televised debate in rio dejaneiro shortly. the far—right incumbent jair bolsonaro and the left wing former leader, luis inacio lula da silva, will face off ahead of sunday's vote. polls suggest lula has a small lead after an acrimonious

and divisive campaign. but the race is so close analysts say the debate could tip the result either way. 0ur south america correspondent, katy watson, sent this report from sao paulo. these past few weeks on the road have been noisy and relentless. both lula and bolsonaro are well aware this has become a tight race. his support underestimated ahead of the first round, bolsonaro's camp came into the second round feeling confident, and rival lula knows this won't be an easy win, even if the polls put him in the lead for now. party shop ownerjanina is hoping for celebrations of her own this weekend. she has little faith in the polls and is convinced bolsonaro will win it. translation: i don't believe in the polls. l i go to the demonstrations and they are peaceful, it's beautiful.

the green and yellow colours, families, children, babies in buggies. so the streets say the exact opposite of the polls. if you just looked at the demonstrations across brazil, you'd see it's so different. in a campaign so prone to fake news, it's taken on even bigger dimensions these past few weeks. there have been accusations of satanism, even cannibalism. this second round has descended into a holy war as the candidates vie for millions of religious votes. lula has traditionally had more support from catholic voters, and bolsonaro the ever growing evangelical community. this is one of the few evangelical pastors who thinks bolsonaro has gone too far. translation: faith has been seized - upon as a political identity, and people end up validating the christian faith of someone based on the political choices they make. i'm choosing to vote for lula because hejust wants to be president.

bolsonaro is a candidate to be god. politics has never felt so heated. felipe's family owned this newspaper stand for three generations, but much has changed. no political chit—chat with his customers. it's all become too personal. translation: sunday will be a watershed moment i when we decide whether to continue with the same politics we have now or go back to one we knew in the past. people feel they are deciding between good and bad, and that doesn't exist. i think the country deserves the politicians they elect. but will those politicians respect the results? jair bolsonaro has regularly attacked the voting system, offering up baseless allegations of fraud. there's concern that so—called tropical trump could follow in the footsteps of his friend in the north. this weekend brings to an end what's often been a bitter and personal campaign, a battle between two huge populist politicians at either end of the political spectrum. whoever wins, though,

will have a huge job on his hands trying to govern this deeply divided country. amid an intensifying economic crisis in brazil, the political drama is far from over. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paulo. let's go to south asia now, and the former prime minister of pakistan, 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. that's after he was ousted in april after losing a confidence vote in parliament. 0ur reporter tarhub asghar is in lahore. right now i am here at lahore's liberty tower, one of the iconic spots. former prime minister and pti chairman imran khan asked supporters to gather here so that he can move, formally start his long march from lahore towards islamabad. you can see thousands and thousands of people who are actually here, and they came here on the call of their leader, imran khan.

0pposed to the leadership is also here, six months ago, imran khan was voted out from office after a vote of no confidence, and since then he has been holding rallies and public gatherings in pakistan to ramp up pressure on the establishment government and so that they can announce early elections. you can see people who have are here, theirfamilies have came here to get into this long march. this long march is approximately a week long activity, in which they will go from lahore to islamabad, going through different cities of punjab. twitter�*s new owner, the billionaire elon musk, says no major decisions will be made for the time being on reinstating suspended accounts. the world's richest person said the company needed to hold a meeting of a moderation council before taking any such action. mr musk has perviously signalled he's willing to reverse bans on controversial users,

including donald trump. this report is from our technology editor, zoe kleinman. elon musk — to his many fans, one of the most innovative and influential people in the world. he's certainly the richest. he made his money with paypal and is now the boss of the electric car firm tesla. he also owns rocket maker 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's now calling himself chief twit. "the bird is freed," he tweeted, followed later by, "let the good times roll." he has just promised to form a moderation council to oversee

decisions about banned accounts and controversial content. nothing will be decided before it meets, he said. it's not known when that will be. musk has strong views about free speech. if he starts to see that a certain type of free speech environment, e.g, 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. all of this matters because twitter�*s become a place where world leaders, opinion formers and politicians go to share their views. it's a kind of direct line between the decisionmakers and us, those they represent. elon musk thinks we need a 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'll want to get some degree of certainty

that elon musk isn't going to be running this like he runs his twitter account. his twitter account is full of memes and jokes. people want a degree of seriousness. they consider this a really important product in the world. there's 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. one for the moderation council, but some investors are known to be keen. to really be a truly free platform, i know everybody hates donald trump, including me, but free speech is about many things we don't like, and many of the things trump might say might actually be really harmful to trump, so i think this sort of fear of letting people on the platform is exactly why we need to protect speech. 0h, great shot. speaking to fox news, donald trump of course had his own view. he wished elon musk lots of luck, but said twitter couldn't succeed without him. zoe kleinman, bbc news.

in the last two minutes, musk tweeted they have not made any changes to twitter�*s content moderation policies. here in the uk, 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. 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 borisjohnson. that deal — the protocol — means tha goods transported from great britain to northern ireland are subject to checks so that the border between northern ireland in the uk and the republic in europe, can remain open. 0ur ireland correspondent, emma vardy, reports. political paralysis, on the horizon for some

time, has now drawn 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 now call an election, but stalled for time on setting the date. i have limited options ahead of me. i'm under a legal duty to call an election within 12 weeks. i've had lots and lots of talks with all the parties and will continue to do so. minister, there was the option to legislate to delay this moment — how does calling an election help solve any of the problems for northern ireland that got us here? nearly all the parties who've been saying this won't help the situation actually signed up to the rules that make this situation happen. why call it now? because i'm legally bound to do so. he has the next 12 weeks to send

people back to the ballot box. alongside carol singers, voters are now expecting campaigning politicians on their doorstep in the run—up to christmas, but beyond that, no—one really thinks there's 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'm ready to fight an election. if the secretary of state wants to hold an election, then he should tell us and we'll prepare for that election. but if not, then let's focus on what really needs to be done, which is to find a solution that restores northern ireland's place within the united kingdom and removes the protocol and the harm it's doing to our relationship with the rest of the uk. we need an assembly and executive up and running. we need to have one functioning to serve the people well, to get them through these tough times. but we're all left this evening wondering what's going to happen next and what actually is the motivation behind what the secretary of state has done this evening. for many families, it means facing the cost of living crisis with political leaders absent. and not having a government means

the ability to help people through this is severely limited. we are struggling, not even week to week but day to day, trying to put food on our table. james manages a community hub in belfast whose services he says families are increasingly dependent on, and that he's in the same boat. you know, i used to run a food hub from my house, over covid. and i'm now, there are times that i'm having to go to a food programme and say, "listen, we're really struggling". yourself? 0urself, and as a manager, it's humiliating. another election, he feels, provides no new answers. i don't believe that the people who are there 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 casualty of this crisis. what will this winter look like for health care workers if there's no functioning government? we already know that it's really, really difficult, even with the government.

we just cannot cope with the demand that's 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. there's lots and lots of plans that are there. the fragility of power—sharing means stormont has only functioned for two of the last six years. today marks a return to a state of stagnation that there's little confidence an election can resolve. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. the white house has announced that president biden will travel to egypt next month for a major un conference on climate change. it said mr biden would attend the cop27 summit, before heading to cambodia and indonesia. more than 200 governments have been invited to the meeting. earlier this week, britain's new prime minister, rishi sunak, said he wouldn't go, prompting criticism from opposition parties

and environmental groups. one of the pioneers of rock and roll, the american singerjerry lee lewis, has died. he was 87. his larger—than—life performances on stage were overshadowed by his scandalous private life, as david sillito reports. # whole lotta shakin�* goin�* on... # come on, baby, baby you can't go wrong... my greatest talent in the field of music that i'm in. if you ever wondered why rock and roll was called the devil's music, jerry lee lewis is your answer. it was his piano playing that got him expelled from bible college.

rock and roll was his escape from god—fearing southern poverty. if you want to be an ass—draggin�* hillbilly, son, you can if you want to, but i would hate to put myself in that position. i'm rock and roll. his family had mortgaged their home to buy 8—year—old jerry a piano. he started out performing on the back of a truck before hitting the big time as part of sun records' roster of rock and roll stars. a lot of shaking, great balls of fire, shows ending in the right conditions. # goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!

were you there, mrs lewis? i was there, but i wasn't at the shows. but it all came crashing down. he married myra gale brown. she was his cousin and she was 13. the backlash against rock �*n�* roll was in full swing. jerry lee lewis disappeared from the airwaves. but it didn't stop them performing. the record companies wanted to promote family friendly cleaned up rock in, family friendly cleaned up rock �*n�* roll. jerry lee was always wild, always dangerous, drink, drugs. in his home, you could count the bullet holes. seven marriages, his life was of barely believable trail of

death of guns and burning cadillacs. death of guns and burning cadillacs— cadillacs. but his soul... i preached _ cadillacs. but his soul... i preached pretty _ cadillacs. but his soul... i preached pretty heavy. i. cadillacs. but his soul... i- preached pretty heavy. i mean, i had to do my rock �*n�* roll thing. i had to do my rock 'n' roll thin. ~ . �* , i had to do my rock 'n' roll thin... ., �*, i had to do my rock 'n' roll thin. ~ . �*, , thing. what's your problem? jer thing. what's your problem? jerry lee _ thing. what's your problem? jerry lee lewis. _ thing. what's your problem? jerry lee lewis. his - thing. what's your problem? jerry lee lewis. his roots - thing. what's your problem? l jerry lee lewis. his roots were jerry lee lewis. his roots were garden gospel and after a life such as this, he probably knew where he was going. it's emerged that one of piet mondrian�*s most famed artworks depicting a new york skyline has been hanging upside down for the last 75 years. an old photo has revealed the mistake, but the curator of the german museum where it's displayed says it's far too late to rectify the error — as the work could fall apart if it was re—hung

the right way up. that's all must now. you can reach me on twitter. i am at @richpreston. goodbye. hello. the weekend weather delivers more of the same of what we've had over the past week, couple of weeks, actually. it'll be very mild, actually. it will be quite warm when we get see some sunshine, there will be rain at times too. we have low pressure anchored to the west of the uk at the moment. throwing across us at times, these rain—bearing weather fronts, even when they're not moving in, there are showers around. but all the while, with some changing for now is the air coming up from the south, keeping temperatures well above the average for this stage of october. another spell of rain moving in overnight and into the mornings through wales and parts of england and actually a little bit cooler first thing, compared with friday morning. some spots in single figures. through the day, this rain

is moving its way northwards. through the morning, northern england, eventually reaching northern ireland and through the afternoon spreading north through scotland. not reaching the far north until the evening where some sunshine hangs on for longest. behind it, further heavy showers from northern ireland, northern england, wales and the southwest. much of the midlands, especially towards east anglia and the southeast having a fine afternoon and this is where there will be some hazy sunshine in the southeast, lifting temperatures into the low 20s. 22 celsius in london compared with an average of 1a. rain into northern scotland and the evening somes showers pushing eastwardss we go into to saturday night and into sunday morning. at night, of course remember to push the clocks back to mark the end of british summertime. and as for temperatures, a little bit higher again as we start off on sunday. there's a lingering weatherfront, east anglia and the south— east during sunday. that will make for a cloudier, cooler day and will be some spells of rain in there with that weather front at times. elsewhere, it's sunny spells and there will be showers. and if you catch these, they are likely to be heavy, could come with a rumble

of thunder, perhaps some hail as well and gusty winds. it's a windier day on sunday and especially around western coastal areas, may be some gusts of 50 miles an hour or so. so some coastal gales around here and temperatures into the mostly middle to upper teens. there are weather changes on the way next week and we will start to see areas of low pressure more weather fronts coming in and indeed, it gradually turns weather to the end of the day across the southwest of the uk initially. so, more of the same in regards to windy weather next week with the rain at times. closer to the average for early november, just the average but it will feel very different compared to what we've had.

this is bbc news, the headlines: a new wave of violence has broken out in iran — with security forces firing on anti—government protestors. iranian state media says one person has been shot dead in the south—eastern city of zahedan — while14 people, including members of the security forces, were wounded. police in california have charged a man with the attempted murder of paul pelosi — the husband of the us house of representatives speaker, nancy pelosi. mr pelosi is recovering in hospital from serious injuries after a man broke into their home and attacked the 82—year—old. the two candidates in the running to be brazil's next president — jair bolsonaro and luiz inacio lula da silva, have faced—off, in an all—or—nothing televised debate. the meeting was the last chance for the candidates to reach

millions of brazilians before sunday's run—off vote.