Alex Ritson

That's correct.

That's what our reporting and the interviews that I do and all the videos and imagery that's coming out of Iran is.

on social media and everywhere shows and also the government's own sort of dilemma where they, you know, say publicly that we don't know what to do about the growing trend of women not observing the hijab.

You know, the Masa Amini protests really changed Iran.

And I think Tyrone is a symbol of that, of that sort of civil disobedience and the discourse that we see, the defiance we see still by women and young people in Iran.

Barnas Fasihi from the New York Times speaking to Sean Lay.

People in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, have spent their first night without a curfew in nearly five years.

The military government has hailed what it claims is the city's return to normality.

The lifting of the curfew comes just a day ahead of elections.

Anna Aslam reports.

When the Burmese army staged a coup back in 2021, there were massive pro-democracy protests across the country.

As security forces clamped down on the protesters, the junta enforced a strict nighttime curfew in Yangon, home to about 7 million people.

Now, with elections scheduled to begin in phases on Sunday, the junta has lifted the curfew completely,

A spokesman said it showed regional stability in Yangon is improving.

But even when there was only a two-hour curfew, most people didn't go outside late at night due to heightened security concerns, and this looks unlikely to change.

Many people left Yangon and other cities after the coup to take up arms in rebel groups fighting against the army.

According to the UN, the civil war has killed thousands, displaced millions and left half the nation in poverty.

The junta has promised the upcoming elections will return democracy, but watchdogs have labelled it an exercise to rebrand military rule.

Anna Aslam.

Still to come in this podcast.