Peter Bowes

Still to come in this podcast, heartbreak in Italy as a famous natural landmark collapses. Today we woke to some really sad news. It's very painful and on Valentine's Day of all days.

I think as far as President Trump is concerned, we've been hearing this message from him for some time, that he believes that Iran wants to make a deal. Although it is far from clear what a framework would look like for a deal to be agreed, given the complexity of the issues. But the President said, and he didn't elaborate, that he would be interested.

Kiitos, että katsoitte.

Ja mitä Iranin näkökulmasta?

Well, from an Iranian perspective, and we've just heard in Lisa's report there, that as far as Iranians are concerned, that essentially there is one issue on the table here, and that is the nuclear issue, that they do not want it complicated by, and this may be unrealistic, but the complexities involve the demand of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, for example, that all enriched uranium is removed from Iran as part of any eventual deal. Iran has ruled that out, saying that it's

Israel also wants to curb Iran's development of ballistic missiles, which have been used to strike Israel. Those issues complicate an already complicated scenario between the US and Iran.

I heard more from our North America correspondent Peter Bowes.

5-vuotias Liam ja his father were detained a little under two weeks ago from their home in Minneapolis. A little boy had just come home from nursery school when this happened. Now the precise circumstances are disputed. The authorities say that this was an operation to detain the father, who they say was in this or is in this country illegally. They say that the boy was not the target of the operation.

but that he was with his father and that they couldn't get the mother inside the home to answer the door to take him in. The family's version of that is that she didn't want to answer the door because she feared being detained herself, leaving her other child inside.

So the boy stayed with the father. They were both detained and taken over a thousand miles to a detention facility in Texas. And that's where they stayed until this weekend when a judge ordered them to be released.

and at the same time issued quite a strongly worded statement, clearly directed at the administration. He said that the boy's detention was cruel and bereft of human decency. He said the case originated in the, just to quote the judge, the ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas. Apparently, he said, even if it requires traumatizing children.

Yeah, quite strong language. But will these releases help calm tensions in Minneapolis?

I think it'll calm tensions to a certain extent, because this particular case, and in large part because of that photograph of the little boy with his blue bunny hat and his Spiderman backpack going viral on social media, it had attracted a lot of attention internationally. People calling for his release and his father's release should say that he isn't the first child to be detained in this way, but this did seem to garner a lot of attention.

and people were calling quite aggressively for him to be released, and that has happened now, so I think it'll calm tensions in that area. But in terms of bigger picture, there is still a lot of tension, still a lot of nervousness, I think it's fair to say, in Minneapolis about what's going on, and other cities around the country, as the Trump administration continues to essentially pursue its immigration policies, even though it appeared to pull back a little from its tactics that it's been using in Minnesota.

Is this the end of the matter? The Trump administration quite often hit back after these kind of reversals.

Yes, well it looks as if that's what's happening in this case, that the administration has indicated that it will appeal this particular judge's ruling. So this looks like it could be something that will get locked up in the courts for the foreseeable future before any final decision is made. I should say that the family insists that the father is legitimately in this country while he pursues his claim for asylum, which...

Again he says, or the lawyer says, that he went through all the proper channels to get into the country and should be allowed to stay here while he goes through the legal process of deciding whether he can stay indefinitely.

It's not so tangible that you could see that people are rushing to supermarkets or bigger stores to get kind of supplies in terms of a war breaks out. But, you know, when you talk to friends and relatives and people around you, you could see that people have planned these to have some sort of stock supplies of food and patrol and also plan if they have relatives in small towns or if they have kind of

Kun näin hänen kuvansa ensimmäistä kertaa, olin yllättynä. Se tuli minulle huonosti. Mafuele on poliisipuolueen asiantuntija. BBC Afrika Eye on puhunut kolmea muuta, jotka myös kertovat, että hän oli osallistunut heidän vahvistuneisiinsa. Joskus, kun olen pysyvä ja yksin, tulee paljon sydäntöä ja huolta.

They are separate lawsuits, but very similar in nature and essentially have the same goal, and that is to try to stop the, as Minnesota describes it, the surge in the number of these federal immigration agents to these respective states.