is going to continue it won't form or another all right erica randolph monitoring the situation for us from tehran thanks for that. well the tennis season is about to get underway with the australian open starting in just two weeks if superstar new mother serina williams signs to take part the spotlight will surely be on the for a while number one she's recently returned to the game just four months after giving birth. along with her twenty three grand slam titles serina of billions can now also add motherhood to her accomplishments millions gave birth to daughter back in september and has shared her experiences on social media. but the urge to pay saw the former number one return to the court at a tournament in abu dhabi but admits motherhood has been a whole new ball game have biggest distraction her tiniest offense. in the middle of the match looked over and i was like is limpy ok because usually i always with her. so i don't know how i'm going to be able to manage that but maybe i'll just always look over in the middle ground is a limpia ok when she is older she'll be able to actua

is going to continue it won't form or another all right erica randolph monitoring the situation for us from tehran thanks for that. fast and furious chesney strong show of the past week at a well rested and blitz chess championships the saudi arabia playing host to most of the top players on the planet politics and human rights control the seas were also an element of the competition they use the german word blitz as in lightning quick but there is no thunder and blitz chess it was quiet in the massive hall that saw world number one magnus carlsen power through more than a dozen opponents to win for the women it was not. of georgia taking the blitz prize but she acknowledged that the favorite had skipped the event ukranian an amusing check said saudi arabia's record on women's rights was the reason she would not defend her blitz and rapid chess world titles she wrote it's a fight for being myself for my principles for the dignity of the women but the saudi royals have recently pushed for social openings even moving to permit women to drive cars in twenty eighteen they reportedly were g

correspondent erica randolph is in tehran erica what are the new developments talk to us about that. today about the. regaining control of the narrative through fairly quiet nights with minimal protests reported this morning we have pro regime rallies tons of thousands of people marching through several cities. forcing no support for the regime opposing the five suspects in recent weeks and this is the revolutionary guards to. this sedition sorry this edition is rose but it's ended already about fifteen thousand people took part. in the younger us the last few days all right what does that tell us i mean i mean you have the protests been effectively a crackdown or is he just trying to reassure the political establishment. it doesn't look like the protests run out of steam these much smaller prioritize us than the ones we saw back in two thousand and nine when hundreds of thousands perhaps even millions of people were out on the streets this time we were talking about thousands and hundreds the difference was that it was dispersed all over the country being discussed and lacking a cle