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21/05/2024 05:06 GMT : Iran election date set for 28 June

Iran election date set for 28 June

BBC World Service - Newsday, Iran election date set for 28 June

President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday

Iran's Supreme leader has announced five days of mourning to mark the death of the country's President in a helicopter crash.

Iran says it will hold elections on the 28th of June for a new president after President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash. An investigation has been ordered into the crash, which happened in a mountainous region in northwestern Iran. We get reaction to that. 

The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologised for failures over an infected blood scandal that has claimed the lives of thousands of people. It's been described as a decades-long moral failure.

Also in this programme, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns the International Criminal Court's prosecutor for seeking arrest warrants for him alongside Hamas's leaders over alleged war crimes in the Gaza conflict. We go live to Jerusalem.

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