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00:00:22Welcome back. Iran has seen a
00:00:24year of turbulence with widespread widespread street protests. That
00:00:27That brutal crackdown by the authorities. authorities. And of course, the start
00:00:30start of US Israeli war on the country. country. Now BBC Panorama has secured
00:00:34secured rare access to people inside inside Iran whose lives have been
00:00:38been changed forever by those events. events. Among them is a mother who
00:00:41who was forced to flee the country country after her daughter was killed
00:00:44killed during anti-government protests. protests. We're going to hear from from the producer and director of
00:00:48of this documentary in a moment. moment. But first, let's get a flavour
00:00:52flavour of it. Hey, I'm sorry to
00:00:57to contact you so late. Please look
00:01:00look out for anyone following you.
00:01:03you. It's obviously really important important that you're not caught
00:01:06caught with the footage. My name's
00:01:11name's Gesbeen Mohammad. I'm talking
00:01:13talking to a cameraman inside Iran.
00:01:16Iran. I knew the risks. Imprisonment,
00:01:24Imprisonment, torture and execution.
00:01:25execution. And I accept them. He's
00:01:29He's been filming Iranians who want
00:01:31want to speak out. The war has been
00:01:36been focused on the American Israel
00:01:38Israel war on Iran. But Iranians
00:01:43Iranians have not had the opportunity
00:01:45opportunity to tell their story of
00:01:47of 2002 and six freely and truthfully.
00:01:54truthfully. I have been filming the
00:01:56the pupils a story. The one the Islamic
00:02:02Islamic Republic doesn't want the
00:02:05the war to see. I've been filming
00:02:08filming people who've just escaped.
00:02:17escaped. MUSIC
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00:02:38This is the story of their year
00:02:40in Iran uprising war and defiance.
00:02:49defiance. The boys. Man. Arthur C
00:02:56C Clarke Kimi Harry Farley Nam nam
00:03:00nam nam. It's incredibly powerful
00:03:10powerful testimony in the documentary. documentary. And I've been speaking speaking to Gesbeen Mohammad. She
00:03:13She made this film for Panorama and and she gave me more detail about
00:03:17about who she's been speaking to.
00:03:19to. Well, this is really the inside inside story of how some Iranian
00:03:23Iranian lives have been shaped by by the protests that we saw at the
00:03:26the start of the year, as well as
00:03:28as the US Israel war that began in
00:03:31in February on Iran. And it's really
00:03:32really a portrait of the contributors
00:03:35contributors story told through their their eyes and in their words. And
00:03:38And I suppose in a year where we've we've heard a lot about the Strait
00:03:42Strait of Hormuz, oil prices and
00:03:44and big political statements, this this documentary really puts human human stories at the centre of it
00:03:48it all. And I think all of the contributors contributors that we meet in the
00:03:52the documentary each have their own own unique stories and experiences,
00:03:56experiences, whether that be about about the war or the protests. One
00:04:00One of those women is Samira, who who has obviously experienced a huge
00:04:04huge amount of pain because her daughter daughter died during the protest
00:04:07protest and then she had to go into
00:04:09into exile. What's her story? Well, Well, Samira is a protester, but
00:04:13but she that makes her also a witness witness to the Iranian authorities
00:04:17authorities violent response to the the protests in January, while the
00:04:20the internet was shut down. And she
00:04:22she says in the film that her daughter daughter was shot right in front
00:04:26front of her on the streets while
00:04:28while protesting. Vision of the Danny
00:04:37Danny Shaw Daniel Bush human Wild
00:04:39Wild Horse Nine Will Vernon Meghan
00:04:41Meghan Owen Begam or the village
00:04:46village Monica Miller. And after
00:04:52after her daughter's death, Samira Samira was regularly targeted by
00:04:55by the Iranian authorities, she says,
00:04:57says, and even in exile she has been
00:05:00been charged with a string of offences offences which could lead to a death
00:05:03death penalty if she returns to Iran.
00:05:06Iran. But despite this, she remains
00:05:08remains defiant. And Geshe, tell tell us a bit more about the people
00:05:12people who are caught up in those those protests, including like medics medics who actually had to go and
00:05:16and treat people. Yes. Well, the the Iranian authorities say obviously
00:05:20obviously there are many people that that were wounded and the Iranian
00:05:22Iranian authorities say more than
00:05:25than 3000 people were killed in the the protests, including members of
00:05:29of the security forces. But one human human rights group, the human Rights
00:05:32Rights Activists News Agency, says
00:05:35says more than 7000 people were killed, killed, mostly protesters, and Milad,
00:05:39Milad, not his real name, works as
00:05:41as a medic. His voice has been disguised, disguised, he says. Hospitals struggle
00:05:44struggle to cope with the numbers
00:05:47numbers arriving for treatment. I
00:05:49I treated old people, middle aged
00:05:52aged people and teenagers. They were
00:05:54were shot at with the intent to kill
00:05:57kill in the head in the neck in the
00:06:03the genitals. And Panorama did write write to the London Embassy, the
00:06:06the Iranian Embassy in London for
00:06:09for a response about the allegations allegations contained in the film,
00:06:12film, and they told Panorama that that peaceful and legitimate protests
00:06:15protests had been hijacked by foreign
00:06:17foreign powers, including the US.,
00:06:19US., which it says promoted violence, violence, provided weapons and equipment
00:06:23equipment and compromise public security.
00:06:25security. These voices it's incredibly incredibly important for people to
00:06:29to hear and so difficult to get these these kind of interviews. And I understand
00:06:33understand how sensitive this is. is. But can you tell us a bit more
00:06:35more about how you managed to obtain obtain some of these interviews? interviews? Well, as you can, as
00:06:39as you say, making a film like this
00:06:42this inside Iran comes with a range
00:06:44range of obstacles and risks. But
00:06:47But we had very from, you know, from from filming to getting the rushes
00:06:50rushes out, we had very strict protocols protocols throughout to keep everyone
00:06:53everyone safe and obviously to protect
00:06:55protect everyone. I can't say exactly
00:06:58exactly how we made this film, but but all of those that spoke to us
00:07:01us wanted were brave and wanted to to do so despite the risks. Well,
00:07:05Well, if you're in the UK you can can watch Panorama, Iran The People's
00:07:09People's Story on iPlayer now and
00:07:10and it's on BBC One tonight at 8
00:07:138 pm. A man who set off to walk around
00:07:16around the world 28 years ago has has returned home today. Karl Bushby
00:07:19Bushby has become the first person
00:07:20person to complete a round the world
00:07:23world walk of 31,000 miles. That's
00:07:25That's 50,000km. I think Karl Bushby
00:07:28Bushby himself is trying to digest
00:07:31digest the enormity of what he's he's done. He's kind of returning
00:07:34returning to his city after 28 years.
00:07:37years. That has changed in many ways. ways. Physically changed. He actually
00:07:40actually got lost in a supermarket supermarket car park on his way into
00:07:44into Hull City centre because the the supermarket back in 1998 hadn't
00:07:48hadn't been built. But a very emotional
00:07:50emotional day for him. He's met up
00:07:52up with his mum and his son. He'd He'd seen them before because they'd
00:07:56they'd flown out to parts of his his journey, but for the first time
00:08:00time in the last 24 hours, he met
00:08:02met a grandchild that had been born
00:08:05born in, in his absence. So in the the last few minutes, he's actually
00:08:08actually arrived at his mum's house house north of here, about four miles
00:08:11miles north. Of course, four miles.
00:08:13miles. Just a skip and a jump to
00:08:16to someone who has walked 31,000 31,000 miles. So he's met up with
00:08:19with his mum. She has said that, that, you know, she'd be waiting
00:08:22waiting at the garden gate for him him and the kettle would be on. So
00:08:25So you presume that process is is
00:08:28is under way. But there's been enormous enormous media interest. There's There's been a helicopter over the
00:08:31the house filming and a big crowd crowd of people, local people supporting
00:08:34supporting him. Veterans have turned turned out here as well to sort of
00:08:38of wave him on because Carl is a a former paratrooper and those veterans
00:08:42veterans have praised his spirit
00:08:44spirit of doggedness and determination determination and tenacity. And so
00:08:48so the Welcome home party finished finished here about an hour ago.
00:08:51ago. Local MP welcomes him. The Lord Lord mayor praised him. A few words
00:08:54words were read out from Andy Burnham, Burnham, the Prime Minister, just
00:08:58just saying how much admiration he
00:09:00he had for Carl. But this is a unique
00:09:03unique achievement. It'll take a
00:09:04a while for him to kind of digest
00:09:09digest what he's done and he'll have have plenty of time to share his
00:09:12his stories in the months ahead, ahead, I would imagine. Paul, we're we're looking at a picture of him
00:09:16him and his mum. I mean, what a moment moment that would be for both of
00:09:19of them really. But the big question
00:09:21question is still why? Why did he
00:09:25he do it? Yeah, I wish I wish I could
00:09:28could give you the answer to that that really. And I think the best
00:09:31best I can do with that is to say
00:09:33say that Carl set himself a challenge challenge 28 years ago because he
00:09:37he felt that he wanted to make his his mark in life. He wanted to sort
00:09:40sort of leave behind his childhood childhood home in Hull and have an
00:09:44an adventure. Now he actually rang
00:09:47rang our office at the BBC in Hull Hull 28 years ago, and he didn't
00:09:50didn't really take him that seriously. seriously. But we perhaps should
00:09:54should have taken him more seriously
00:09:55seriously than we did. I think he
00:09:58he certainly now feels that he's he's fulfilled that appetite for
00:10:01for adventure. He's been across deserts,
00:10:04deserts, swum the Caspian Sea, confronted confronted polar bears in the Arctic,
00:10:07Arctic, been arrested by the Russians
00:10:10Russians for spying. Of course he he wasn't spying. So all of these
00:10:14these challenges. He reckons that
00:10:17that had he just walked continuously, continuously, it would have taken
00:10:20taken about 15 years. But he's had
00:10:21had several setbacks to do with visas
00:10:24visas and politics and weather and and running out of money. And he's
00:10:28he's had to fly back to his base base in Mexico. But finally today
00:10:31today after setting out, he is back back home at his mother's house trying
00:10:35trying to work out the next chapter. chapter. Before I go, let's just
00:10:38just take you live to a courtroom
00:10:40courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, where Lindsay Clancy
00:10:44Clancy is there for a hearing that that could determine whether she
00:10:47she will be retried for killing her her three young children at her home
00:10:50home in 2023. You might remember
00:10:53remember that a jury deadlocked her her first trial, so arguments are
00:10:57are being heard at the moment. We'll We'll keep across this for you. Matthew
00:11:00Matthew is next and I'll see you
00:11:01you again tomorrow. Bye-bye.
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