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Hello and welcome to NewsAaf for the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you live from London.

I'm James Menendez.

In a moment, we'll have the latest from Iran,

where nationwide protests against the government are continuing.

Also, coming up later, there's been an outcry over an AI feature on Elon Musk's X that

generates sexualized images of users without their consent. The UK government's calling for swift action.

We'll speak to one of those whose image was manipulated. She's the mother of one of Musk's children.

People found photos of me at 14 years old that they undressed, put into a bikini. Other photos of

me where I had a high neckline as an adult with my son's backpack in the background. I was

stripped where I look basically nude, bent over, and many of these still remain

up on the platform. That interview with Ashley Sinclair coming up in half an hour. But we are going

to begin in Iran and growing fears that the response of the authorities to huge nationwide protests

may be about to turn very bloody indeed. There have already been clashes between the

demonstrators and security forces. It's thought that nearly 50 people have been killed since the

unrest began almost two weeks ago. But in many places, and as far as we can tell, because there

is an internet blackout in place, crowds have been allowed to gather relatively unimpeded and their numbers

have been swelling on Thursday night. It was reported that hundreds of thousands of people were out

on the streets. This was footage verified by BBC Persian in the city of Camille in the south-west of the country.

Or a statue of Qasem Soleimani, the hugely important military commander,

killed six years ago by the Americans, was toppled.

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