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in the main cities about five or six different provinces the biggest demonstrations in the city of isfahan and ensure rise now protests in iran have become relatively normal with the economic struggles of the country's been seeing for the past several months so dozens of people protesting in their cities in the towers in the villages is not something that generally makes the news but what we have seen in the last forty eight hours is dozens of protesters in a few pockets around the country turning into hundreds in main cities in multiple provinces and that's really what is interesting here we also saw or have heard unconfirmed reports of small demonstrations yesterday and the day before in the capital but what is interesting is that about an hour outside of the capital in courage there were a few dozen people to try to set fire to a mosque there were demonstrations there but the police through or did that attempt to burn down a mosque what we're seeing is the number of protesters are swelling people who came out protesting economic conditions those slogans are now turning into more politic

in the main cities about five or six different provinces the biggest demonstrations in the city of isfahan and ensure rise now protests in iran have become relatively normal with the economic struggle that the country's been seeing for the past several months so dozens of people protesting in their cities in the towers in the villages is not something that generally makes the news bold what we have seen in the last forty eight hours is dozens of protesters in a few pockets around the country turning into hundreds in main cities in multiple provinces and that's really what is interesting here we also saw or have heard unconfirmed reports of small demonstrations yesterday and the day before in the capital but what is interesting is that about an hour outside of the capital in courage there were a few dozen people to try to set fire to a mosque there were demonstrations there but the police sure did that attempt to burn down a mosque what we're seeing is the number of protesters are swelling people who came out protesting economic conditions those slogans are now turning into more political c

clips of rallies have been shared on social media from mashhad, karaj and isfahan, where the demonstrationstuesday against rising prices. the us is due to reimpose sanctions on iran on tuesday over its nucelar programme. 18 people have died in a helicopter crash in north—western siberia. the aircraft was taking workers to an oil station when it knocked into the cargo of an adjacent helicopter, as both were completing ta ke—off. the other helicopter landed safely after the incident. in israel, a large protest has been taking place against the country's "nation state law" which was passed just over two weeks ago. thousands of members of israel's druze minority gathered in rabin square in tel aviv to protest against the change, which defines israel as a principallyjewish state, and which downgrades arabic from an official language. earlier i spoke with bbc correspondent nawal assad. a lot of anger from the druze community and the arab community in general here and also actually from the israeli leftists, who joined the druze demonstrators here. there are almost 40,000 demonstrators gathered in

we've been speaking to peter cardio who's the chief market economists isfahan capital securities he says a collapse of turkey's currency could negatively affect other economies. the central bank is probably going to have to raise rates. you know maybe two or three fold in the present levels if that doesn't happen the speculation against the turkish lira will continue and that means that we could see a crises developing in euro and as you know some of the banks in the southern region of euro land have exposure to turkish that debt and if. this speculation continues and turkey should implode then we could see a renewed crises on the european banks especially in countries like spain france and italy a jury in the u.s. state of california has found a weed killer sold by the chemical giant monsanto calls the cancer of a school grounds keeper as being seen as a landmark decision which could pave the way the thousands of other cases some analysts are saying on scientists future meeting be at risk mike hanna has more from washington. claim of damages this was the first lawsuit concerning life os

in the main cities about five or six different provinces the biggest demonstrations in the city of isfahan and ensure rise now protests in iran have become relatively normal with the economic struggle that the country's been seeing for the past several months so dozens of people protesting in their cities in the towers in the villages is not something that generally makes the news go on what we have seen in the last forty eight hours is dozens of protesters in a few pockets around the country turning into hundreds in main cities in multiple provinces and that's really what is interesting here we also saw or have heard unconfirmed reports of small demonstrations yesterday and the day before in the capital but what is interesting is that about an hour outside of the capital in carriage there were a few dozen people to try to set fire to a mosque there were demonstrations there but the police sure did that attempt to burn down a mosque what we're seeing is the number of protesters are swelling people who came out protesting economic conditions those slogans are now turning into more political

last week demonstrators marched in isfahan, shiraz, mashhad, and the tehran suburb of karaj. crowds are small- numbering in the hundreds-- but increasingly angry. protesters lash out at iran's religious clerics and what they call a corruptystem of governance that's long mismanaged and looted iran's onomy. fueling turmoil in iran appears to be the trump administration's objective. st>> right now the unitees is undertaking a diplomatic and financial pressure campaign. >> sayah: in a speech last month, secretastate mike pompeo said the pressure decampaign igned to reign in iran's destabilizing behavior in the region. rathe trump administon's other goal, he said, is to help iranians frethemselves from an oppressive regime. >> the united ates hears you. e united states supports you. the united states is with you. >> that's sheer hypocrisy. >> sayah: says washington's real intention is regime change, even at the cost of hurting ordinary iranians. >> how can you help people by imposing sanctions on the country? who is hurting by the sanctions? no,ar wnot saying the situation is perf

in the main cities about five or six different provinces the biggest demonstrations in the city of isfahan and ensure rise now protests in iran have become relatively normal with the economic struggle that the country's been seeing for the past several months so dozens of people protesting in their cities in the towers in the villages is not something that generally makes the news go on what we have seen in the last forty eight hours is dozens of protesters in a few pockets around the country turning into hundreds in main cities in multiple provinces and that's really what is interesting here we also saw or have heard unconfirmed reports of small demonstrations yesterday and the day before in the capital but what is interesting is that about an hour outside of the capital in carriage there were a few dozen people to try to set fire to a mosque there were demonstrations there but the police who ordered that attempt to burn down a mosque what we're seeing is the number of protesters are swelling people who came out protesting economic conditions those slogans are now turning into more politi