it s an issue that normally you would learn about in school, budy lt learning about these things and where they stand. how do you thinkhink ameri amer really going to respond here? is it going to be well, is it ps is going to be that kind of victimized rhetoric that s going to push people or doh r th you think that in general americans understand the importance of these type underss of decisions, of these decisions? oh, i think they understandde know, every time there is a decision that liberals don t like, they resuscitate efforts to pack the high court. they re sort of like sore losers. they want to change the rules when they re not re le winning. the political backlash wouldck be severlash we. polls consistently show the vast majority ofans americans against packing the court. they correctly view it as cheaw manipulation for partisan gain. but it s also an attacanonkul on the separation of powers. it would undermine the judiciaries independence. the high court would suddenly d
over the uk, france, germany. all the u.s. allies, you can see in the press, this has been a story for the past weekend. as you correctly point out, though, the rest of the world, and i m talking about democracies now, elected democracies with the rule of law, independent judiciaries, they have held many, many of them, many american allies have held their exleaders, some even current leaders to account when they are regarded as trumpist facing, or whether in terms of financial miss duings, tax fraud, and the like. the prime minister of israel is under criminal investigation right now and there have been previous prime ministers and leaders of israel. the same in france. two former presidents were accused and convicted of crimes relating to economic and financial misdoing. in south korea, in japan, i mean, really, it does go on. and you mentioned nicholas
we are joined now by bbc persian s parham ghobadi. thank you forjoining us. what is the latest on this? figs thank you forjoining us. what is the latest on this? thank you forjoining us. what is the latest on this? as you can see, the latest on this? as you can see, the protesters. the latest on this? as you can see, the protesters, we ve the latest on this? as you can see, the protesters, we ve got - the latest on this? as you can see, the protesters, we ve got their - the protesters, we ve got their pictures, were executed on friday, and protests erupted in their home time of isfahan and in other cities, including the capital. it was not the first protest, on wednesday iranians expected they would be executed, so they went in front of the prison and were faced with tear gas. thenjudiciaries the prison and were faced with tear gas. then judiciaries said they had no plans to execute these three protesters on thursday. however, they heard the execution on friday morning. the chill
on that podcast with congressman matt gates not too long ago. and suggested that this came from his personal wealth. in these amended filings, he s now changing his story. the box to indicate that these are personal funds are now not checked. also, really crucially here, laura, he s still listed as a source of the lone elsewhere in the filings. so, i don t know if confusion is the point here, that is certainly the outcome. our colleague, manu raju, trying to get some answers from him today. take a listen. you amended your fcc reports to make it 500 i didn t amend anything. i didn t touch anything of my my stuff. so don t be disingenuous in report that i did, because you know that every campaign hires judiciaries. i m not aware of that answer, and we ll have an answer for you the press regarding the amendments from yesterday. so, this is something that he often says. he will have an answer for the press, and then you can hear him there trying to push this
in the last few hours, the uk s prime minister, rishi sunak, says: i am appalled by the execution of british iranian citizen alireza akbari in iran. this was a callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people. my thoughts are with alireza s friends and family. joining me now is bbc monitoring journalist khosro isfahani, who s been watching iran for us. what more have you seen in iranian media? , ., . ., , media? this morning, udiciaries officials released media? this morning, udiciaries officials released a media? this morning, judiciaries officials released a statement. officials released a statement saying that alireza akbari has been executed. two days earlier, a state affiliated newspaper had hinted that he might have been executed, or his execution might be imminent. so this