this is bbc news.
our top stories: violence in iran, after a third day of anti-government protests.
reports say at least two people have been shot in the capital tehran, an official show
of support for the government draws thousands of people.
from fountains of ice to frozen sharks, north america's arctic winter looks set to continue
into the new year.
nepal bans solo climbers from scaling its mountains, including mount everest.
critics say it will do little to reduce accidents. and new year revellers prepare to see in 2018
in style, but in many european capitals, there'll be tight security.
welcome.
violence has broken out across iran, as anti-government protestors defy warnings from officials, demonstrating
for a third day.
two people have reportedly been shot dead.
at the same time, pro-government rallies have been taking place in the capital tehran, with
thousands of people showing their support.
the anti-government protests started in mashhad and spread to several parts of the country.
they have focused on corruption and falling living standards, but they are becoming increasingly
political.
wyre davies reports.
do to the streets.
it is being reported that two protesters have been killed.
late into the night, demonstrators attacked targets with links to the government and the
ruling elite.
in corunna bad, the governor 's office was burned.
in the northern city of a shadow, police motorbikes were set alight while crowds taunted the security
services.
what started as a provincial process about rocketing prices has become deeply political
and moved to the k run.
-- to run.
where officers were altered stones
neither main university.
rightfully suite used to quell the disturbance.
this video shows a baby being taken to hospital, apparently suffering from the effects of tear
gas.
it is thought the iranian authorities have reacted by cutting access to the internet
in many cities, especially to mobile phones and instagram, which had become hugely popular,
is now said to be inaccessible.
iranian officials have out-of-state tv to double their efforts to resolve the economic
problems and ploughed ahead with commemoratives pro-government rallies on saturday.
but further protests are expected over the coming days and experts say opposing the islamic
republic will be a colossal challenge.
do not underestimate the aggressive capability of the revolutionary guard, the resiliency
of the islamic republic.
this regime is well
institutionalised in iran and can deal with protest movement such as the one that we have
witnessed in the one that we have witnessed in the past few days.
iran's ultraconservative regime is facing its biggest threat in nearly a decade, but
what links will to to survive?
-- links will it go to.
-- lengths will it go to.
with me is ali hamedani, presenter with the bbc's persian radio and television services.
how do you think this compares to 2009? the most significant difference are first of all,
these rally of protest started with small cities.
the other thing is, next month is going to be the 40th anniversary of the islamic revolution
but after almost four decades this is the very first time that people started chanting
slogans against the regime, not only that but also they are asking the royal
family and the monarchy to come back and take over.
extraordinary.
this is extraordinary.
the other thing which was pretty different from 2009 and whatever, we all know from iran
is that people can out this time and they chant against islamic fundamentalism and they
said we don't want a religious government to rule the country, which is pretty unusual
when it comes to iran because people know this is going to because people know this
is going to be risky when you say all of these things, including all of these, which started
since the beginning because in 2009 at the very end of the demonstrations, after the
violent and the revolution guard attacked protesters, they started death chants.
but now they started all of these anti- regime slogans since the beginning, from the beginning.
what is striking about
this, for those on the outside is just how quickly this has accelerated.
how did it start?
kingussie the beginning point?m accelerated.
how did it start?
kingussie the beginning point?
it is very difficult.
-- can you see.
it started with a few rules which prices will go up, fuel prices, food prices, this round
of protests people have access to four g internet, silvio internet -- cellular internet on their
phones, different then 2009.
they used to record, went back home and sent it.
now they are live tweeting, showing everything life to each other.
they keep informing each other, they ask each other to come out and that is why it grew
this quickly.
it is also a betting that there have been pro-government marchers, particularly in the
capital, which
we are showing now.
let me take you 0h we are showing now.
let me take you on to president trump, one of the few leaders which has tweeted his support
to the uranium people, you would expect that to be counter productive.
-- iranian. would expect that to be counter productive.
-- iranian. and we received indications of people thanking president trump in the streets
and also in socio media -- social media, people were comparing this to what president barack
0bama did in reaction to 2009 after the election.
people are saying donald trump is not taking the regime's side but he is standing for the
uranium people.
-- iranian people.
thank you for your analysis.
hospitals across the united states are dealing with a severe shortage of a critical medical
supply, the bags used to administer fluids to patients.
one of the biggest suppliers of the bags is based on puerto rico which was hit by hurricane
maria.
the bags, normally filled with saline and other fluids, are used to dilute drugs and
help rehydrate patients.
and scott gottlieb, commissioner of the us food and drug administration has issued a
statement about
the situation.
doctor berry pierre is from wellington regional medical center in florida.
he told us his hospital got down to just three saline bags and began making it themselves.
i pointed out that the bags are basic but very important.
honestly, that is very true.
there is not a patient merely that goes through the hospital that doesn't receive iv fluids
in one way or another.
what are you noticing about the shortages where you are? first and foremost the hospitals
are putting us on red alert.
they are making us be very cautious on who gets iv fluids and on how long a person gets
iv fluids and now i guess to the point where certain medications, whether it be anti-radical
anti-viral treatments are being taken, separated from the iv fluids and given to patients direct.
how do you make that decision as to who gets the saline through the bags and who doesn't?
a loss of times you tend to triage patients and the sicker patients, the ones who really
need it, and i really need it, are the ones who get it beforehand because we had this
applied there if you were a patient you are usually stuck to an iv bag of fluid.
now we are cautious on who gets it.
what are the alternatives to using the bags? first and foremost we try to encourage our
patient to drink fluids. if a patient is drinking fluids, that is a good indication we do not
need to give them iv fluids and the saline bag in general.
i think what was happening is that we had patients who may have been 0k not getting
iv solution, getting it because it was almost the standard.
what do you think about the handling of this? i think it is kind of troubling, especially
from a public health background, that i have, that one natural disaster can hit one continent,
of the united states and it affects the whole country.
so it is very concerning that it doesn't take much to really affect the whole industry.
let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.
the greek government says it will ask its judicial authorities to cancel a decision
granting asylum to a turkish helicopter pilot.
he was one of eight servicemen who fled to greece after a failed coup attempt in turkey
injuly 2016.
turkey has expressed its fury at the original decision to grant asylum, saying it would
adversely affect ties between the two countries.
the black lives matter activist erica garner has died aged twenty seven.
she suffered a heart attack last week.
ms garner came to prominence three years ago after her father eric garner died after being
choked by a police officer as he was being arrested for a minor offence.
colombian trucks have begun delivering fifty tonnes of pork leg to venezuela, where shortages
of the product led to a week of protests.
roasted pork leg is a staple in the region during the christmas and new year celebrations.
the venezuelan president, nicolas maduro, accused foreign countries, in particular portugal,
of blocking exports in order to create discontent
and destabilise his government.
the portuguese government has dismissed the allegations.
to the united states, because it's not every day you can take photos of a frozen water
fountain like this one in new york. across vast swathes of the us, forecasters are predicting
that arctic temperatures are set to stay over the new year's celebrations. to show you just
how cold it is.
these are thresher sharks which have washed up frozen along the coast of cape cod, in
the state of massachusetts.
thermometers could reach the lowest temperatures in nearly a century over the next few days
and may stay there into the first week of 2018. earlier i spoke to michael wehner, a
senior scientist in the computational research division at the lawrence berkeley national
laboratory in california.
well, this cold snap is caused
by a cold arctic air mass over the eastern united states by an unusual but not unprecedented
jetstream pattern.
i'm a climate change scientist specialising in attributing human influence on these weather
events and the question that is interesting to me, does global warming change the general
circulation of the atmosphere to make this kind of event more likely? you mentioned global
warming.
we are always being warned not to conflate climate change and individual weather events.
should we be reading something into these cold temperatures?
actually, we probably should.
this still remains an interesting question about these kinds of cold waves and i'm a
bit sceptical.
but the physics is sound for this kind of mechanism.
the question i think is, have we experienced on a climate change to detect and a tribute
this kind of pattern of circulation change from the atmosphere? just to be clear then,
are cold snaps like this happening
more less frequently?
i don't think we can tell quite at this point.
what do know is that winters are milder in general.
these temperatures, which are cold, are more unusual how than they would have been 30 years
ago.
as a society, we have adapted subconsciously to somewhat warmer winters so when we do get
these kinds of cold temperatures which are not all that unusual 30 or a0 years ago, they
seem to be more unusual to us today.
so you are saying there could be something in this? i think so. we've gotten to the point
where there has been a change of one degree in the global average preindustrial times.
we are finding more and more extreme weather events have been made more severe or more
likely by this rather substantial change.
we don't...
excuse me. we often say don't confuse weather and climate but we are reaching the point
where individual weather events have a climate change component.
stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: dozens and christians can together after live
in a shot dead at a coptic church.
-- muslims.
the most ambitious financial and political change ever attempted has got under way with
the introduction of the euro. tomorrow in holland, we will use money we picked up in
belgium today, and then we will be in france and again it will be the same money.
it has just got to be the way to go.
george harrison, the former beatle,
is recovering in hospital after being stabbed at his 0xfordshire home.
a 33-year-old man from liverpool is being interviewed by police on suspicion of attempted
murder.
i think it was good.
you... just good?
no, fantastic! that's better.
this is bbc news.
the latest headlines: there've been clashes across iran between anti-government protesters
and security forces.
in the capital, tehran, thousands have rallied in support of the government.
arctic conditions and extreme cold have prompted some us cities to postpone new year's eve
events.
egypt's muslim and christian communities have joined family members at a wake for ii people
killed in an attack on a coptic church.
police have stepped up security around churches ahead of coptic christmas celebrations.
russell trott reports.
amongst the grief and the sadness, togetherness. as hundreds from egypt's christian and muslim
communities attend the wake for those who died in an attack on a coptic church.
the sense of outrage here tempered by the feeling that something positive needs to come
out of such a tragedy.
translation: the main reason of the terrorism are the impurity of thoughts.
therefore i am calling on officials to purify the education curriculum that encourage hate.
i wish for a school subject called tolerance, where we would be allowed to approach and
love one another.
to coexist with one another and live as one heart in egypt, where we have been raised.
at least 11 people were shot on friday at the coptic orthodox church.
and a christian-owned shop near cairo, a gunman was wounded and arrested.
the so-called islamic state group later said it carried out the attack, though it provided
no evidence that the claim.
in an unrelated incident, security forces killed three suspected militants on the outskirts
of giza, on a farm they believed to be a militant hideout.
hundreds of police and soldiers have been killed in an insurgency led by is on the sinai
peninsula.
this latest raid comes as security is stepped up ahead of coptic christmas and new year
celebrations in january.
the president has offered his condolences and said he will continue the fight
against terrorism and extremism.
but egypt's cops have, in the past, accused the authorities of making only token gestures,
attacks on churches they say will not help to calm community tensions.
the authorities in nepal say they've banned solo climbers from the country's mountains,
including mount everest, in an attempt to reduce accidents.
they've also upheld a controversial decision to introduce restrictions on disabled climbers.
kenton cool is one of the world's leading high altitude climbers.
he's taken on everest 12 times.
he told us what he made of nepal's decision.
i don't think it is a good thing.
mountaineering has a rich heritage for some very notable first attempts at the peaks by
solo climbers.
one only needs to look at the likes of ueli steck, reinhold messner, jean-christophe lafaille,
herman buhl. these are great, iconic names, some of the very best climbers of their generation.
and they went out and deliberately sought out solo climbs, climbs that they embarked
on their own, incredibly safely.
they would get up and down these mountains often in impeccable style on some of the big
peaks.
so, for the nepalese minister of tourism to blanket ban solo climbers, i think, is very,
very short-minded. in the premier league on sunday, manchester city can stretch their
incredible winning run when they travel to crystal palace.
victory in the lunchtime kick-off would be their 19th in a row, equalling the record
in europe's top five leagues, set by bayern munich.
pep guardiola was manager of them, and now overseeing city's remarkable run - he's not
concerned if it came to an end.
finally, manchester city loses one game.
that will be big news.
big news is to win again.
that is what
i'm thinking in the future.
i insist many times, i say here as well, that is real.
that is not normal and you are going to get points and that is where i want to see my
team.
all this week on bbc world, we've been hearing from the great and the good of world athletics
as part of our making a champion series.
kristian warholm had a 2017 to remember.
the world a00m hurdles champion from norway talks about how his celebration after winning
in london resembled a norwegian tourist in magaluf! and he says he's looking for different
challenges in his athletics career as he moves forwards.
i think confidence is important, no matter what you do, actually.
and of course winning in both 0slo and stockholm gave me some confidence
andi stockholm gave me some confidence and i felt like i stockholm gave me some confidence
and ifelt like i was one stockholm gave me some confidence and i felt like i was one
of the better guys here.
looking back at thatis better guys here.
looking back at that is like almost looking at a norwegian guy in mugler.
it is to joy, norwegian guy in mugler.
it is to joy, you know.
i love it.
as i said, when you are training hard, there is something about achieving your goals that
make you feel even better.
my facial expression in london said it all.
ijust facial expression in london said it all.
i just always think that my grandma will watch this so i need to be on my best behaviour.
but of course i'm doing a lot of thoughts, and hopefully everyone doesn't look at me
like this very serious young quy: at me like this very serious young guy, but with actually,
one of my favourite things is hanging out with my friends, i can grab a beer, it's no
problem and i'm having fun, i'm trying to be as chill as i can and not having anything
that is stressing me that is unnecessary.
i have been doing it for two years now
andi have been doing it for two years now and i don't know, probably not to, but at
the same time, i want different challenges and challenges is what i love. for now, i
think the hurdles is very challenging for me just now and there is many things for me
to work on.
a great yearfor a great year for kristian warholm. as people around the world get ready
to mark the end of this year and the arrival of 2018, many cities will be celebrating new
year's eve with open-air concerts, street parties and fireworks.
but in europe, after a series of islamist attacks over the past 12 months against civilian
targets, particular attention is being given to public safety.
david campa nale reports.
live music, wine tasting, festive decorations, and good food - all the vital ingredients
in romania for a great party.
but the tune in other european capitals as they prepare is so far more sombre.
france has seen over 230 people killed in attacks by islamist militants over the past
three years.
the paris police chief says his force is prepared for the terrorist threat, which he assessed
as high.
over 10,000 police and emergency service workers are to be deployed in the capital, with a
large force concentrating along the champs-elysee.
large areas of central rome will ban cars from parking for 48 hours and the main tourist
sites will have special protection.
celebrations at berlin's brandenburg gate are expected to attract1 million party-goers,
but the authorities in germany face an additional challenge - two years ago hundreds of women
were robbed and sexually assaulted on new year's eve in cologne and other cities by
groups of men, many said to be from migrant backgrounds.
this year, berlin police say women who feel threatened will be able to go to a special
security area.
translation: there is no women's zone as such -
it's a red cross security point that was always there but is taking over the additional duty.
if any woman is harassed at the event, they can go there to a staff of trained psychologists,
but it is not a women's zone. but the idea has also been criticised by those who say
large events should be organised so that assaults don't happen in the first place.
translation: what is not normal is that women, especially young women, are attacked in public
places, especially celebrations.
but that's it.
others say they intend to party regardless.
um, i feel pretty safe.
i'm not scared.
yeah, i'm not scared.
yeah, yeah.
i think the thing is fear that scares people.
and i don't think - you can't let that ruin your life, so... yeah.
david campanale, bbc news.
a reminder of our top story.
there've been clashes across iran
between anti-government protesters and security forces.
in the capital, tehran, thousands have rallied in support of the government.
that is the way it is looking.
keep up-to-date on our website.
stay with us up-to-date on our website.
stay with us here on bbc news.
hi there.
2017 is finishing on a flourish in the guise of storm dylan.
zooming out to the atlantic, 15 hours ago storm dylan didn't exist, but since then,
this area of low pressure has formed and it has explosively deepened as it has been racing
towards the british isles. this nasty hook of cloud is characteristic of a very deep
area of low pressure indeed and that will bring severe gales to the northern half of
the uk and a high risk of disruption here as we get into new year's eve.
the met office have already issued an amberwind warning for the strong winds that are going
to affect northern ireland and scotland as we go through new year's eve morning.
gusts of 70-80 mph. now, aside from that, many will start off with rain, mild in the
south and a bit of mountain snow in scotland but it is the winds that takes centre stage.
initially, the strong wind was with us in northern ireland before swinging across into
scotland.
we could see peak gusts of around 80mph, enough to blow down trees, cause transport disruption
and any trees falling down could bring powerlines down as well.
power cuts a possibility as well.
the strong winds filtering and funnelling through the central belt of scotland.
we could have some very rough weatherfor the morning.
elsewhere across england and wales, many areas starting on a bright note, with some sunshine
with a bit of rain left over in the south-west, clearing really quite quickly.
those strong winds very slow to ease down across central belt of scotland, only slowly
easing
during the second half of the afternoon.
blustery showers continuing to be blown right across the uk with these gusty winds with
us across all areas and in the showers they will be heavy, some thunder and quite a range
of temperatures between 6 and 12 degrees.
overnight, as we count down to midnight celebrations, we will see further showers being blown in
on those strong winds.
not as cold as it might have been, though.
temperatures around 4 and 7 degrees.
on new year's day, another band in the south could cause problems with localised flooding
with the weather being a problem.
another area of low pressure bringing gusty winds to scotland and northern ireland, along
with outbreaks of rain.
we have more unsettled weather coming on tuesday, as we return back to work.
wet weather pushes in and a quite windy day, coolness across the south-east but mild across
the south-west, temperatures again into double figures.
looking at the week ahead - strong winds, further bursts of heavy rain with fairly big
changes day by day
with our temperatures.
that is your latest weather.
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