here's maggie rulli. >> reporter: protests gripping iran for nearly four weeks, tonight, spreading to the refineries critical to the country's oil and gas industry. workers joining anti-government protests sparked by the death of mahsa amini. the 22-year-old died in custody of the morality police after an arrest for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. across the country, women taking to the streets and risking their lives. this group confronting the president iran who visited a university, telling him to "get lost." over the weekend, hackers breaking into a broadcast on iranian state television, flashing an image of the supreme leader surrounded by flames, echoing the chants of protesters -- "woman, life, freedom." and with protests showing no seen of slowing down, iran's judiciary chief proposing a "dialogue," saying, "if we've made mistakes, we can reform them." but activists swiftly rejecting that idea. the group iran human rights says at least 185 citizens have been killed since the protests began -- 19 of them children. and the toll only growing. 16-year-old vlogger and prote

>> maggie rulli tonight, thank you. >>> also breaking news from the white house tonight. a new executive action from president biden pardoning thousands of americans convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law. let's get right to our senior white house correspondent mary bruce live at the white house with late reporting. mary? >> reporter: david, the president has now pardoned all people with a marijuana conviction of marijuana possession under federal law. that clears about 6,500 people convicted between 1992 and 2021. biden saying sending people to jail for simple possession has upended too many lives, saying it's time to right these wrongs. and he is urmging governors to pardon those convicted of state charges, which make up for the vast majority of convictions. the president is also ordering his administration to review how marijuana is classified, saying that it makes no sense that it is a schedule one drug in the same class as heroin and lsd. but david, the big picture here, this is an important first step towards decriminalization. th president is ma

it's also become a leader in environmental conservation and maggie rulli, yes, she is there. anding in the middle of what's the largest blanket peat bog in europe spanning 1,500 miles. i know bog doesn't know as glamorous as a tropical rain forest but it is just as important. rolling hillsides, rushing rivers, wildlife at your doorstep. scotland's rugged beauty draws in visitors from all over the world. >> this is actually part of the largest blanket bog in europe. >> reporter: it's this best taking nature that sara tells us landed scotland on nat geo's best of the world list 2023. so you're saying it's taken more than 10,000 years to form the peat bog. oh, wow, this is an incredible view. why did nat geo choose scotland? >> scotland is on there not only because it's beautiful but because they're such leaders in the conservation initiatives. >> reporter: the government pledged to make the country net zero by 2045. one way to get there, restoring the country's vast and vital peat bogs made up of waterlogged plants slowly decomposing over time. >> one of the most important thing

maggie rulli has more on what we know right now. ning, maggie. >> reporter: hey, robin, good morning. yeah, that gunman opened fire just afternoon during nap time at that daycare center in a remote part of north eastern thailand. most of the kids were sleeping when gunfire broke out killing every child but one. local media reporting that of the at least 36 killed, 24 are children, some as young as 2 years old. police looking for a 34-year-old man that the papers report was a local police officer who was fired over possession of meth. it's believed his son used to go to this daycare but hadn't been in about a month with workers there telling local journalists they thought he was just there to pick something up for his son before he attacked. now, authorities have confirmed that after his shooting spree the suspect then shot and killed himself as well as his wife and child. guys, at this point no motive has been found. guys? >> all right. maggie, that's just incomprehensible but thank you as always. >>> we do want to turn to the new mi

maggie rulli is at buckingham palace with the story. >> reporter: good morning, it's the title "spareair. right now everyone waiting to see exactly what's inside that memoir. this morning, prince harry is promising a raw look at royal life in his highly anticipated new memoir, revealing the book's cover. a close-up of the prince's face with one simple word for the title, "spare," seemingly a nod to growing up behind his older brother, the heir to the throne. >> the book is coming out four months after the death of the queen and just a few months before the new king's coronation so it's going to be a huge distraction for the royal family. >> reporter: publishers also announcing the book of "unflinching honesty" will be released january 10th and describing it as a remarkably moving personal journey from trauma to healing, saying the memoir will immediately take readers back to prince harry's childhood and the moment they walked in the procession behind their mother's coffin after her death in 1997. we first found out about the memoir in july of 2021, the prince saying it will be a first