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social and political issues in Iran are the focus of our first report today on CNN.

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I'm Carla Zeus at the CNN Center When we produce this show, the Internet had been shut down in Iran.

The government of the theocratic republic is trying to put out the fire of nationwide protests that flared up last Friday, and taking the country off line could make it harder for protesters to organize their demonstrations.

The Oracle computer software company says the blackout is the largest Internet shutdown ever observed in the Middle Eastern country.

For several years now, Iran's economy has been getting worse.

The rial doesn't buy as much as it used to.

Certain kinds of food and medical equipment are in short supply, and it's getting harder for many Iranians to find a job for these reasons.

Protests across Iran broke out two years ago, and they welled up again over the weekend after the government announced it would increase gas prices by 50 to 300% meaning they could Triple gas is relatively cheap in Iran, but with lower incomes and economic problems.

The higher prices make it less affordable.

Iran's government says several protesters have been killed in the demonstrations, and it blames them on other countries.

Iran's government says its enemies support actions like sabotage and breaking the law.

But many protesters blame Iran's leaders, whom they criticized for being corrupt.

Violent protests in many parts of Iran About a five hour drive south of Tehran.

In Isfahan, flames rage at a branch of this bank a similar picture in Khorramabad, near the border with Iraq, as Iranians, faced with high unemployment and a crumbling economy take to the streets capital Tehran.

This social media video purports to show protesters screaming Death to the dictator.

The government claims it wants to combat fuel smuggling in the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed the gas price hike while criticizing protesters locater room into Hope Valley.

Some people would definitely get upset over this decision, he said.

But damaging and setting fire to property is not something normal people would do its hooligans.

On Sunday morning, workers at the main bazaar in Tehran went on strike, effectively shutting business down there.

But the merchants have been suffering for months since the Trump administration has pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement and hit Iran with wave after wave of crippling sanctions.

Iran's government says it will remain steadfast and initiated what it called a resistance economy, an effort to become more self sustained.

But while Iran's government says outside forces are fanning these new protests, many Iranians suffering under high unemployment have very little hopes that things could improve anytime soon for plug in CNN Moscow.

In that report, Fred Pleitgen mentioned a nuclear agreement that was made in 2015 between Iran and six other countries, led by the U.

In the deal, Iran said it would limit its nuclear program for 15 years, and the other nations said they lift their sanctions their penalties on Iran's economy, which would allow billions of dollars to flow back into Iran.

Supporters said this was the best way to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, at least temporarily.

Critics said Iran got too much out of the deal and that it eventually build nukes anyway as a U.

Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, called the agreement a bad deal, and in 2017 as president, he pulled the US out of the agreement, putting American sanctions back on Iran's economy and increasing pressure on Iran to make changes.

In the years since, Iran has also moved away from the nuclear agreement, and the United Nations says Iran has resumed enriching uranium 500 Sounds like hundreds of miles.

To unleash this, you start with this raw uranium fresh out of the ground.

To do that, you need these centrifuges, thousands of them.

Speed's about 1000 times a second, shaking out stop, don't want and leaving the powerful stuff you do for the next 15 years, no uranium will be enriched beyond 3.67%.

Iran, though, has gone beyond that, reaching levels as high as 20% in the past.

On that's important because while they're still technical challenges to going even higher, one she ate 20.

You're well on the way to weapons grade enrichment.

That's 90% on that is what that little phrase uranium enrichment really means.

What distinction is held by fairy flies are they indigenous to Antarctica.

The smallest insects, a type of butterfly or extinct fairy flies are a type of lost, and they're the smallest insects on earth, even if you don't want to eat insects like we discussed last Friday, Scientists say 3/4 of our crops depend on insect pollination, And a new report from the United Kingdom Wildlife Trust says there have been massive decreases of certain insect populations in the UK Between 1968 and 2007 The report says, the number of large moths in Britain fell by 28% and that many butterflies also disappeared.

It suggests that declines like these air happening with different insects around the world, that there's so much that's unknown about certain regions, that it's hard for researchers to say for sure.

Still, the report says, the main reason for insect decline is habitat loss, and it suggests that we can all help solve that by planting flowering trees around our communities.

Growing plants like lavender, which attract bees avoiding pesticides though that could lead to the loss of some crops and mowing your lawn less often could attract more insects to it.

That could bug your neighbors if it gets out of hand up.

Next, machines with microphones, remote searchers with sensors, computerized carriers with cameras Put them all together and you have robots to the rescue.

New technology is finding a new role in helping first responders save lives in the wake of disasters.

Robots can speed up everything from rescue to recovery.

And this is how one woman makes a living.

If you only know one thing's that disaster robots make the disaster go away faster.

Robots can go into these places to get to where there might have been survivors.

If I can see what I need to see, I can make good decisions to keep the responders safe.

I'm a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A and M, and I work with disaster robots.

Disaster City is one of the emergency management complexes at Texas A and M has is designed to test into train search and rescue teams on how to conduct search and rescue missions.

We've supplied robots for 28 disasters Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Harvey.

We assisted with the Fukushima, the ACI nuclear accident.

We bring robots and people that we've tested and practiced with and our training exercises went.

The biggest challenges to doing work and rescue robotics is not the robotics.

It's really challenging to be at a disaster.

There's, ah, physiological and psychological impact of that.

So you have to be really good at what you're doing.

It's about the science and the technology and the way it could be used for societal good.

For 10 out of 10 12 days, 14 hours, 59 minutes.

That's how long it takes to fly a helicopter toe, all 48 continuous US states.

Assuming you're flying solo and setting the new Guinness World record, Yosuke each family Rot said he had two goals here.

Besides the record, inspire more people to learn to fly helicopters, he says More pilots are needed and to show America's beauty from the air, he encourages everyone to dream big and keep pushing because even if you've hit the skids, that's not a bad thing in the helicopter.

You just find your place in the rotation, stabilize your sights, ignore any or rotor distractions.

In no time, you'll be ready to lift off like a Blade runner on elevating transmission that defies gravity for CNN.