Ankur Desai

This 19-year-old, also traveling from the capital, pulls back his black hooded jumper to show a large stitched cut across his head. He was about 50 meters from a police station when it was struck and debris hit him as he ran for cover.

Like many Iranians we meet, he's too afraid to give his name. Iranians have told us there's even a sign as they leave the country, threatening legal action if they speak to journalists. The regime may have been weakened, but even across the border its grip is still felt, and its survival is as uncertain as when people will feel safe enough to return.

The numbers of people crossing Turkey's three land borders are for now small in number. Iranians tell us huge numbers are leaving the big cities for the safety of the countryside or small towns and villages. Others tell us even if people wanted to get out, they simply don't have the money to do so, or the internet to plan their journey.

Emily Wither reporting.

Iran says it won't let one litre of oil through the Straits of Hormuz, the narrow shipping lane which is usually crucial to the global economy. It was something General Dan Kane, America's top military advisor, referenced in the press conference we talked about at the start of the podcast. We continue to strike the Iranian Navy and their capabilities in order to do things like sustain movement through the Straits of Hormuz.

One solution the US says it's considering would be for navy warships to escort oil tankers through. But Tom Sharp, who served for over 25 years in Britain's Royal Navy, says it's not an easy task because Iranian defenses there are formidable.

Ja seuraavasti olemme nähneet, että öljyprosentti kasvaa ennen kuin me tiedämme sitä. Ja taas näemme, että se on se, että se on se, että se on se, että se on se, että

Sanotaan nyt vaikka, että teille on tulossa ensimmäinen lapsi. Se, että ostat vauvalle hyperturbovaunut, auttaa vähän. Vanhemman henkivakuutus auttaa paljon. Turvaa uusi perheenjäsen jo tänään. if.fi kautta henkivakuutus.

Henkivakuutuksen Yhteistyöliiton jäsenelle myöntää Kaleva-vakuutus, jonka asiamiehenä toimii IF-vakuutus. Onko uusi kotio kiikarissa? Hae asuntolainaa mutkattomasti S-Pankista paikkakotisohvaltasi. Avaa S-Mobiili ja tee lainahakemus. S-Pankki, Suomen mutkattomin pankki.

Authorities in the US state of New Mexico have launched a search in a ranch previously owned by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Several survivors have testified that Epstein assaulted teenage girls and women there, but the remote location has never been searched before. Vicky Ward is an investigative journalist who's written extensively about Epstein. She's been speaking to my colleague Tim Franks.

There was this email that's in the files, an anonymous email claiming to be from a former employee at the ranch, alleging that there are two bodies of foreign girls buried in the hills there. Those allegations have not been corroborated. It's not even clear that the source of the email has been verified. We do know.

that several of Epstein's victims were abused there. I sat through Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial and two of the four

victims who testified at that trial talked about what had happened to them at the ranch. And so it is absolutely extraordinary that it hasn't been searched until now. Has there ever been a reason for that? I mean, has it been some sort of dispute between the authorities in New Mexico and federal investigators? Has it slipped between the cracks there? Because as you say, it does seem extraordinary.

It appears, and I'm speculating a little bit, but based on what's been reported, that it did exactly slip through the cracks. Because when Jeffrey Epstein was indicted on federal charges in 2019, that really meant that the feds under the jurisdiction of the Southern District of New York,

which is where he was charged, had authority over the investigation. And we know that the New Mexico authorities were beginning to look into the ranch at that time, and they were told to stop.

and let New York and the Feds take over. But that isn't what appears to have happened. It just slipped through the cracks. Unlike all his other properties, the island, the apartment in Paris, the plane, obviously New York. It is extraordinary, given that other than New York, which was, and Palm Beach, the two locations that were talked about,

Most frequently in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. Obviously Jeffrey Epstein never had a trial. But the third property that was mentioned the most was Zorro. Zorro being the name of this ranch in New Mexico. I suppose it's worth just pointing out that it's more than a building, isn't it? It's a vast tract of land. It's an absolutely vast tract of land. I think that the house itself is 30,000 feet wide.

Tämä on todella iso paikka, jossa Jeffrey Epstein viime viikon aikana puhutti lapsia. Tiedämme, että hän on erittäin kiinnostunut eugeniasta erilaisilla naisilla. Se olisi ollut täydellinen paikka, jossa hän olisi tehty jotain tällaista, koska se oli täysin yksityiskohtainen. Yksityiskohtainen paikka oli 30 kautta lähellä.

Vicky Ward, an investigative journalist who's written extensively about Jeffrey Epstein.

We've seen reality TV stars and actors become leaders of their country. We're now in South Asia. It's looking like we can add a musician to that list. The rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah is set to become the next prime minister of Nepal, his party winning two-thirds of the vote. It's a historic result for Nepal, five months on from deadly Gen Z anti-corruption protests. Our South Asia correspondent Azadeh Mashiri reports from Kathmandu.