bbc persian's rana rahimpour reports. could this be iran's second wave of coronavirus?ntry was opened up from lockdown just about a month ago, and this is how it looks like now in one city. buses are being used to transfer covid—i9 patients to the capital of this province. it is one of at least nine provinces where infections are rising rapidly. according to iran's ministry of health, this province in the south—east is now a red zone. the hospitals are full. their staff are overwhelmed. last week, iran recorded the highest daily increase in the number of coronavirus cases since the first were reported four months ago. many local officials say this is a second wave of infections, but iran's president insists that the term "second wave" creates too much fear among people. there are no signs of social distancing here. shoppers and street vendors don't seem too worried. the authorities say this is the reason behind the recent spike — that people have ignored public health advice and travelled to other cities. translation: in the last 24 hours, we learned that about 60—70% o

bbc persian had this report. could this be iran's second wave of coronavirus?ry was opened up from lockdown just about a month ago. and this is how it looks now in one city. buses are being used to transfer covid—19 patients to the capital of the province. it is one of at least nine provinces where infections are rising rapidly. according to iran's ministry of health, this province in the south—east is now a red zone. the hospitals are full. their staff are overwhelmed. last week iran recorded the highest daily increase in the number of coronavirus cases since the first were reported four months ago. many local officials say this is a second wave of infections. but iran's president insists that the term second wave creates too much fear among people. there are no signs of social distancing here. shoppers and street vendors don't seem too worried. the authorities say this is the reason behind the recent spike, that people have ignored public health advice and travel to other cities. translation: in the last 24 hours, we learned that about 60 or 70% of the new pa

here's rana rahimpour from bbc persian. we can see a difference.eeks, the deaths went to below 100 every day. which is probably a result of a few weeks lockdown around march and the iranian new year. but it is going up and we now have more and more cases. so today for instance we had 2500 confirmed cases and 120 deaths. so it is definitely going up. but for some reason, unknown to us, the officials are refusing to call it a second wave. we know the president has said that we do not want to create fear among people and it is important to know that iran understands among people and it is important to know that iran under sanctions and huge systematic corruption is running out of money. so they really cannot support people and they are not in a position to reintroduce a lockdown. also on another development, the bbc persian services has done research about the excess deaths that have been announced only for winter and it seems that the confirmed deaths is probably five times less than the actual numbers. it seems during that period, more than 6000 exc

the bbc persian's rana rahimpour reports. could this be around's second wave of coronavirus?down just about a month ago. and this is how it looks like now in one city. buses are being used to transfer covid—i9 patients to the capital of this province. it is one of at least nine provinces where infections are rising rapidly. according to around's ministry of health, this province in the south—east is now a red zone. the hospitals are. their staff are overwhelmed. last week, iran recorded the highest daily increase in the number of coronavirus cases since the first were reported four months ago. many local officials say this is a second wave of infections. but iran's president insists that the term second wave creates too much fear among people. there are no signs of social distancing here. shoppers and street vendor ‘s don't seem too worried. the authorities say this is the reason behind the recent spike, that people have ignored public health advice and travelled to other cities. translation: in the last 24 hours, we learned that about 60- 70% of the hours, we learned that ab

that's from bbc persian service.erating in europe after concerns were raised about the qualifications of its pilots. more than 140 staff had been grounded after claims their licences may not be genuine. pakistan's own aviation minister had described those documents as "dubious". that's from bbc urdu. two weeks after a statue of king leopold ii of belgium was removed in antwerp, the current king of belgium has expressed his regrets for what he called the crimes that were committed in its former african colony of congo. millions of africans from areas in what is now the democratic republic of congo were killed, mutilated, or died of disease as they worked on plantations belonging to king leopold. that's from bbc africa. and the european union says it will allow vistors from 15 countries it considers to be "safe" — to start coming in from wednesday. they include canada, morocco and australia, but not the us, brazil or russia. china is on the safe list, but the eu says it first wants reciprocal arrangements for its citiz

bbc persian had this report. could this be iran's second wave of coronavirus?ince the first were reported four months ago. many local officials say this isa ago. many local officials say this is a second wave of infections. but iran's president insists that the term second wave creates too much fear among people. there are no signs of social distancing here. shoppers and street vendors don't seem too worried. the authorities say this is the reason behind the recent spike, that people have ignored public health advice and travel to other cities. translation: in the last 24 hours, we learned that about 60 or 70% of the new patients have travelled to other cities recently. this has happened during holidays, as we were expecting. as life begins to look relatively normal in large parts of iran, most schools remain closed. but year 12 exams had to go ahead, which according to this student didn't feel safe. translation: they have taken our body temperature, but when we ask them about the results, we were told that the thermometer was broken. then they sent all the stu

international tensions exist, this focus on persian culture is a chance to grasp how iranians see themselves and their place in the world. samira ahmed, bbc news. and samira's series art of persia starts next monday at 9pm on bbc four. that's all from us this evening. newsnight is coming up on bbc two at 10.45 with kirsty wark. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. welcome to bbc news. i'm samantha simmonds, it is now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejoe twyman, director of the polling organisation deltapoll, and susie boniface, columnist at the daily mirror. very good evening to you, thanks for being with us. let's take you through those front pages. the international edition of the ft goes with an eu plan to pump billions of euros into advance purchase deals with pharmaceuticals companies for potential coronavirus vaccines. the paper says it a sign of intensifying efforts by rich countries to secure supplies of future treatments. in germany, frankfurter allgemeine sa