politicians in iran are reacting to the flouting of headscarf laws by women — by insisting the rules must be �*enforced rigorously�* byjudges. pope francis leaves hospital after receiving treatment for bronchitis —— and promises to lead the mass celebrating palm sunday. slap in the face to the international community, that is the assessment of ukraine's foreign minister to russia, assuming presidency of the un security council. a critical incident has been declared in dover as passengers are delayed for hours at the start of the easter getaway.

politicians in iran are insisting that wearing headscarfs should be �*enforced rigorously�* — they�*re demanding that judges enforce the law. across the country, a growing number of women are going out without hijabs in public. earlier, i spoke to bbc�*s parham ghobadi and asked what prompted this latest move. in big cities like in tehran and in other major cities, they just walk around on the streets without headscarf and without her job and without hijab, it�*s not only headscarf, it�*s also a kind of trench coat that for four decades, iranian women had to wear in order to walk on the streets. so now we see, especially younger women walking on the streets without any sort of hijab and iran. iranian politicians and iranian heart that has frustrated iranian hardliners. and so iranian regime is in a really difficult position because they have this tiny margin of supporters that are hard liners, and these are the people who are willing to pick up arms and defend the regime. now, they are extremely angry, seeing women on the streets of iran without wearing headscarf.

and how are some women being treated who are out not wearing headscarf? so there is this constant battle without iranian hardliners and iranian women. for example, a video surfaced social media yesterday, and it was it went viral. there are two young women just standing in a grocery shop and waiting, queuing up. you can see the video right now. an iranian hardliner walks in and gets into a kind of argument with them and picks up a bottle of a bucket of yoghurt and hits them in the head. this has frustrated many iranians, and scenes like that are extremely dangerous for iranian regime as well, because iranjust you know, the protests started seven months ago and it went on for about six months. so do does iranian regime really want another to start another wave of protests? well, that�*s the that�*s right where we are right now. just remind us how we did get here.

so seven months ago, a young iranian kurdish woman, 22—year—old masha amini, died in the police custody because there were some police vans patrolling the streets of iran and especially in tehran, and arresting women who did not abide by the rule. that was seven months ago. now, what we see in iran is that everywhere women are walking on the streets without hijab. so iranian regime in the battle with young iranian women has technically lost. and there is no sign that iranian women are backing off to wear the headscarf again. the pope has said he will take part in the mass celebrating palm sunday in the vatican. the 86—year—old was discharged from a hospital in rome in the last few hours where he was receiving treatment for bronchitis. smiling and leaning on a cane as he left rome�*s gemelli hospital, the pontiff greeted well—wishers and joked he was still alive. the vatican said he�*d resumed some work duties while in hospital, baptising a new born baby as well as sharing a dinner with some of the doctors and nurses. a smiling pope francis leaned

on a stick as he greeted well—wishers outside the gemelli hospital. ruth gledhill is assistant editor of home and digital at the tablet, a catholic news magazine and gave us her reaction to those pictures of the pope. happy because, you know, it�*s the best possible outcome. and as the vatican was indicating all along, he has been released in time to fulfil the easter schedule, and he does appear to have responded well to the antibiotics for his bronchitis. and this time of year there is, yeah, pretty busy schedule, isn�*t there? yes, there is. and it starts really tomorrow, palm sunday and goes through holy week, maundy thursday and good friday and then the easter services. but after that that he has a chance for a bit of a rest, although he�*s off on his travels again quite soon. and i think that he is in a wheelchair, don�*t forget. so there�*s not too much standing involved, even though his knee is getting better. the knee that�*s put him

in the wheelchair is getting a little bit better, but he�*s still so it means he doesn�*t have to stand up so much as maybe he would have had to do if he didn�*t have the knee problem. so i think he looks likely he will be able to get through it. he might get some help here in there from other people. but the main thing is the infection is over. and when he was admitted to hospital on wednesday, suddenly and unexpectedly, of course, lots of people feared the worst as one would with any man, 86—year—old man. so it really is it does feel like very good news that he has does appear to have come through it. and just talk to us just briefly, if you can, just the approach to his health that he�*s taken and disclosure, because, of course, he is a man in his eighties, you�*d expect their issues to come up. butjust talk us through his approach that he�*s taken. i don�*t think it�*s overstating it to say the vatican�*s natural inclination always in the past has been to say as little as possible when elderly popes start to develop signs of frailty.

but pope francis has always been determined that there should not be and nothing should be hidden. and he�*s always been completely open about his health and what issues he�*s had from when he was a very young man up until now. so we do get information very quickly, which i think is very reassuring and is a good development. 0k. and just before i do let you go, ijust got time for one quick more. what does this mean for people around the world, people who are watching for who aren�*t part of the catholic faith to see him up and about at this time of year? well since pope benedict resigned and then spent a while in retirement at the vatican before his passing, it has been a cause of speculation as to will pope francis retire early. but pope francis says that he sees the papacy as a job for life. but soon after he was elected,

he did sign a form saying that if he became incapable of doing the job, he would step down. and that could be for health reasons. but the one phrase he has used is clarity of mind. well, there�*s no suggestion that in these physical ailments that he has suffered, is suffering with his knee still ongoing, that there�*s any effect on his clarity of mind. he has great acuity. so i think catholics do understand that to be the case. and always there�*s concern, you know, with an elderly man if they become ill. well with any elderly man who becomes ill. yes, there is concern. of course there is. but i think so. it�*s a greatjoy, really, that people are seeing him come through this and looking fit and well to carry out his duties. the port of dover has declared a critical incident and apologised after people leaving for france suffered long delays. the port says its "deeply frustrated" that bad weather

and french border checks have resulted in lengthy queues — particularly for coaches. a number of school and university groups have been affected. simonjones reports. it�*s not such a great start to the great easter getaway. forced to spend hours on a couch with no idea when you are going to be able to get across the channel. this driver from nottingham is trying to keep the spirits of his passengers up as they face missing a day on the slopes on the french alps. we have been here for four hours waiting. we have had a lot of coaches in front of us. i have no idea how long we will be, 12 hours, 16 hours, i don�*t know. the police are doing what they can to stop dover snarling up at lorries and cars are getting caught in the chaos to. we were meant to be going to italy, ultimately, that we are booked into a hotel in france this evening, but i don't know if we are going to make it now.

it is going to be a long one, i think, we are going to be. here for awhile, but it's ok. it is a holiday. so what is causing this? it has been blamed on a perfect storm of lots of people want to travel, bad weather yesterday causing delays to the ferries, and according to the port, new checks after brexit meaning all passengers have to get out of the coaches to have their passports checked and stamped by the french authorities. lorries were forced to queue on the outskirts of dover overnight. the port says it is deeply frustrated, insisting it had planned ahead, but the additional ferry bookings taken by the firms for easter have added to the challenge. well, can ijust say how sorry i am that everyone who wanted to get away this easter break has been so disrupted, and in particular for the schoolkids, being a father myself i know how anxious i feel, is what we have been doing is working really hard with a ferry operators and airport operators to try to make sure that all of the traffic that has been backlogged can get through as quickly as possible. another 5,000 cars and 400 coaches are expected today.

for many, it will be a waiting game. the latest series of tornadoes to have ripped through parts of the united states has left at least four people dead. they were killed in the states of arkansas and illinois. dozens have been injured and tens of thousands have lost power. the governor of arkansas, sarah huckabee sanders, has declared a state of emergency. 0ur reporter shelley phelps has more. ripping away building tops, downing trees and overturning cars. the catastrophic tornado started moving through the city of little rock in arkansas on friday afternoon. this man told cbs news what he saw. and through our window, i saw the transformer back here that kind of blew up. i saw that the lightning strike, it kind of blew up, caught me off guard, went in the bathroom, closed the door, and all of a sudden it was just like so much wind everywhere.

it felt like kind of like the house was shaking and things were kind of like being thrown against it. and it was just something i never experienced before. dozens of people have been taken to hospital. debris lies scattered across roads and tens of thousands of homes are without power. there were also dramatic scenes in illinois where a tornado caused the roof of a packed theater to collapse. experts say such widespread severe weather is unusual. this is the first time in i believe more than ten years that we've had two areas of high risk. that's very uncommon because typically the atmosphere likes to focus on one particular area. it comes just a week after a deadly tornado hit mississippi, killing 25 people. president biden has been there meeting the relatives of those who lost their lives. today, i authorised the federal government to cover 100% of the cost for removing debris and emergency

measures that are involved, keeping up here by keeping shelters up and running and paying for overtime for everyone. 100% of the cost, not for the state, but for us for 30 days. and then after that, we�*re not leaving either. similar help will be required with the clean up efforts elsewhere. and difficult hours lie ahead for the millions of people facing severe weather warnings across the midwest and the south. shelly phelps, bbc news. russia has taken the presidency of the un security council despite ukraine urging members to block the move. each of the council�*s 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating pattern. the last time russia had the presidency, february 2022, it launched a full—scale invasion of ukraine. i�*m joined now by hugo bachega our ukraine correspondent from kyiv. great to see you, to separate and

significant developments in ukraine that i want to get updates from you on both of them. let�*s start with this development at the united nations, just talk us through it. yes, so russia has taken over the rotating presidency of the security council, which is the main security body of the united nations. 0bviously, body of the united nations. obviously, there has been an angry reaction here from the ukrainians, the foreign minister said today this is a slap in the face of the international community, we heard from the president�*s chief of staff saying this was another symbolic blow to the rules —based system of international relations. so the ukrainian since the beginning of the war have criticised the bag russia continues to be a member of the security council, a permanent member of the council, so come in other words, it has a has veto power, it can veto resolutions and it has used

this power to veto resolutions related to the conflict here. now, ukraine has tried to get russia expeued ukraine has tried to get russia expelled from the council, even though there is no legal pathway for that to happen. in the last few days, ukraine has been trying to block russia�*s right to take over the presidency of the security council, but again, it was something that the members of the security council could not do, we heard from american officials are saying this is something that is not possible. so again, angry reaction here from the ukrainians following this move by russia. the ukrainians following this move b russia. . ~ the ukrainians following this move b russia. ., ~ , ., , the ukrainians following this move b russia. ., ~ , . the ukrainians following this move b russia. . ~' , . �* , by russia. thank you very much. as i mentioned. — by russia. thank you very much. as i mentioned. a — by russia. thank you very much. as i mentioned, a second _ by russia. thank you very much. as i mentioned, a second important - mentioned, a second important updates coming out of ukraine today, this to do with a senior finger in the church, just expend what has happened? the church, 'ust expend what has ha--ened? , the church, 'ust expend what has ha ened? , , the church, 'ust expend what has ha--ened? , , ~ .,h, .

happened? this is the metropolitan cleric of the — happened? this is the metropolitan cleric of the ukraine _ happened? this is the metropolitan cleric of the ukraine orthodox - cleric of the ukraine orthodox church, he was arrested today, the ukrainian security services have accused him ofjustifying the invasion of ukraine and also of inciting religious hatred. these are allegations that he denies. i think what is happening here is that this is the church that had ties with the russian church in moscow, the church here in ukraine broke up those ties after the invasion of ukraine, the leaders of the church in moscow have been supporting the war here. but the ukrainians say that they believe that senior clerics and high—level officials of the church have continued to support moscow, have continued to support moscow, have continued to support the invasion of ukraine, last year a continued to support the invasion of ukraine, last yeara number of buildings used by the church were raided, dozens of senior members of the church are now being investigated, some of them are facing charges, including thejudges

related to the suspicion is that they have been collaborating with russian officials. the church allows those allegations and say they are being targeted —— they deny the allegations. the split that has happened here in ukraine among the orthodox and down like a community, as a project has been created, independentjudge and this branch of the church, the ukrainian 0rthodox the church, the ukrainian orthodox church, the ukrainians say that this church has continued to have ties with moscow, even though they deny those allegations.— with moscow, even though they deny those allegations. thank you so much for that. those allegations. thank you so much for that- let's — those allegations. thank you so much for that. let's take _ those allegations. thank you so much for that. let's take a _ those allegations. thank you so much for that. let's take a pause, - those allegations. thank you so much for that. let's take a pause, we - for that. let�*s take a pause, we will get all of the sport. manchester city kept the pressure up on arsenal at the top and an emphatic 4—1 win as the premier league resumed with a cracker. erling haaland and they fell behind early due to a goal. then an

equaliser with goals from kevin to breiner and others. five points behind the leaders, arsenal, who are in action against leeds, where it is currently goalless in that match along with five other games today. until the end, it was very performance, even though it is 0—1 down, we were playing very good. in general, the way we played, the way we found our spaces for the weighted event. now, our intensity, the players all of them, they were magnificent. indie players all of them, they were magnificent.— players all of them, they were mannificent. ~ ., ., , , magnificent. we have moments, but in aeneral, magnificent. we have moments, but in general. how— magnificent. we have moments, but in general. how we _ magnificent. we have moments, but in general, how we lose, _ magnificent. we have moments, but in general, how we lose, pretty _ magnificent. we have moments, but in general, how we lose, pretty much - general, how we lose, pretty much everything. — general, how we lose, pretty much everything, we were 3—1 down, difficult — everything, we were 3—1 down, difficult place to be, oh my god, how they— difficult place to be, oh my god, how they are playing, there was nothing — how they are playing, there was nothing any more there, the spaces between _ nothing any more there, the spaces between the lines were much debate.

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good morning, vincent. catherine�*s got five children, and little vince is the youngest. her partner works full—time, but they�*ve struggled with bills and are already in arrears on council tax. i�*m trying my best to pay it, but obviously with five children it�*s a bit difficult. i�*d like to know why the council are charging more for council tax. it is a big increase this year. the chancellor has changed the rules to allow councils in england to increase taxes by as much as 5%. and almost all areas are opting for that biggest possible rise to save. to save check to see if you�*re out of your contract, period. don�*t forget, you will save money if you are able to pay by direct debit. broadband and mobile deals are increasing too.

alex pays £40 a month for his phone contract. it works for my internet. it works for my streaming, my sport, watching my youtube, watching films. and that means i don�*t need a broadband bill as well. i want to know why a phone company is allowed to put the prices up. most mobile and broadband contracts can go up with inflation, plus a bit extra, adding a whopping 17.3% for some services. to save check to see if you�*re out of your contract, period. the easiest way to do that on your phone is to text the word info to 85075. if you are beyond that period, then quids in because you won�*t have to pay any exit fees and you will be able to save money if you shop around for a better deal. utility bills are rising too. i want to know if my gas and electrical cost me more. and i want to know if my gas and electrical cost me more. and other

government _ electrical cost me more. and other government is _ electrical cost me more. and other government is now _ electrical cost me more. and other government is now giving - electrical cost me more. and other government is now giving a - electrical cost me more. and other government is now giving a lower. government is now giving a lower price cap in place untiljuly, bills are still going up. that is because standing charges are increasing in lots of areas and the monthly £67 government about has stopped. while water bills are rising by an average of 7.5%. the customer like anne marie, they may benefit as some companies are reducing prices for gas and electricity from the start of april. when it comes to water, make sure there are no leaks in your house and certain shower heads and tab aerators really reduce the flow of water and can save you money. the good news is that a lot of people�*s incomes are increasing in april too. the minimum wage is going up by 9.7% and most working age benefits and pensions will alljump by ten per... io.i%. a court in romania has agreed to allow the controversial social media influencer — andrew tate — to leave prison and move into house arrest. the british—american former kickboxer has millions

of online followers. he�*s being investigated for a number of crimes — all of which he denies. tim allman reports. hello, andrew. freedom at last. it seemed almost like a hero�*s welcome as andrew tate returned to his home in romania. but he wanted to stress he was also relieved and grateful. i want to give respect firstly to the judges who heard us today, because they were very attentive and they listened to us and they let us free. so i have to give absolute respect to them. i have no resentment in my heart for the country of romania or for anybody else. ijust believe in the truth. andrew tate is a controversial character. he has a huge following online and he�*s previously been accused of misogyny. it�*s been proven that the smartest people in the world are men, that�*s been proven. and i said that female infidelity is more disgusting than male infidelity. and i think that the world agrees with me. then in december last year, romanian police raided his home along with his brother and two local women.

he�*s being investigated on allegations of rape, people trafficking and forming an organised crime group. he continues to deny any wrongdoing. i truly believe thatjustice will be served in the end. there is 0% chance of me being found guilty of something i have not done. i maintain my absolute innocence and i think most people understand this and i look forward to being home. the two brothers have been forbidden from contacting any witnesses and can�*t leave their house without approval from the authorities. no charges have yet been brought. andrew tate says he�*ll now focus on reading the quran and doing push ups. tim allman, bbc news. that is it from me for the moment, plenty more online as always, for the moment, thank you very much for your company, this is bbc news. goodbye. hello there. it�*s been a bit dull and cloudy

today to start the 1st of april. that�*s the legacy left by yesterday�*s area of low pressure. however, as we move into part two of the weekend with high pressure building in overhead, it should turn dry and brighter for most of us with increasing amounts of sunshine. so it will start to be a little bit warmer, too. that�*s yesterday�*s low pressure sitting out in the near content. it�*s left a legacy of weather fronts around quite a lot of clouds, too. and the breeze, a noticeable breeze coming in off the north sea, making it feel quite chilly down north sea coast. but the rain in the west of scotland, northern ireland, should slowly petered out overnight. many places will turn dry with variable clouds, some clear spells where skies clear, be quite chilly, where we hold on to the cloud and then five to 7 degrees for many of us. so for part two of the weekend, then high pressure starts to build in overhead. we lose the all the ice bars in the southeast, so the breeze through the morning will tend to ease down across the southeast and any cloud in the north and the west will start to break up, too. so increasing amounts of sunshine as we head through the day on sunday, still thick, a cloud for northern

scotland, maybe the odd shower here, but most places will be dry again. it�*s quite chilly down north sea coast. the onshore breeze a little bit warmer further south and west with the sunshine, 13, maybe ia degrees. now, as you move through sunday night, though, with clear skies, light winds is going to be the recipe of a chilly night to come. you will see the blue hue there, touch of frost in places, subzero values as well. even towns and cities will be quite cold. so a chilly start to monday, but again, high pressures with us with light winds. it should be fine and dry keeping these weather fronts at bay, at least for now. so for monday, we start the new working week on a dry note, a cold note, mind you, with early frost. but temperatures will lift quickly in that strong early april. sunshine, plenty of sunshine across the board, as you can see, fresh southeasterly breezes. so, again, cooler along north sea coast, but up to around 13, maybe 1a degrees further west and then a temporary blip around the middle part of the week. it looks like our area of high pressure retreats for a while allows

these weather fronts to move into northern and western areas to bring more cloud outbreaks of rain. but then it looks like high pressure could build back in. so there�*s that blip showing up clearly here on our icons across more northern and western areas for a while. but then the run up to easter looks promising with more in the way of sunshine.

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the headlines: the headlines: politicians in iran politicians in iran are reacting to the flouting of headscarf laws by women — by insisting the rules must be �*enforced rigorously�* byjudges. russia has assumed the rotaing presidency of the un security council for the month of april, a role described by ukraine�*s foreign minister as, "a slap in the face to the international community". in the uk, the port of dover has declared a critical incident with up to 70 coaches delayed overnight as they tried to cross to france. port authorities cited french border controls and bad weather for the hold ups. pope francis has left hospital in rome — he was admitted on wednesday after complaining of breathing issues. the pope says he will take part in the mass celebrating palm sunday