
Newshour
Newshour
Trump says 'killing has stopped' in Iran after violent protest crackdown
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15 January 2026
47 minutes
Available for 2 days
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has said his government has no plans to hang people arrested for taking part in protests. President Trump has threatened to take "very strong action" should Iran begin carrying out executions -- but later said he'd been told on good authority that the killing of protesters had stopped.
Also in the programme: NATO troops start arriving in Greenland as the Trump administration underlines its ambition to own the island; the BBC has uncovered evidence of a split in the upper echelons of the Taliban in Afghanistan; and the writer Julian Barnes will be discussing AI and his last ever novel!
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