to make way for coal mining. i have come here to protect life and fight for survival. as long as people are here, lutzerath stays. and: takeaways, restaurants and cafes in england will have to stop using plastic cutlery, plates and bowls from october, as part of a new government plan to tackle plastic pollution. hello and welcome to bbc news. iran s state media has reported that a british iranian national, alireza akbari, has been executed. mr akbari, who was a former deputy defence minister for iran, was detained three years ago and charged with spying for the united kingdom. the british government says the execution was politically motivated and will not go unchallenged . 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
as long as people are here, lutzerath stays. takeaways, restaurants, and cafes in england will have to stop using plastic cutlery, plates, and bowls from october as part of a new government plan to tackle plastic pollution. iran s state media has reported that a british iranian national, alireza akbari, has been executed. mr akbari, who was a former deputy defence minister for iran, was detained three years ago and charged with spying for the united kingdom. the british government says the execution was politically motivated and will not go unchallenged. 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. a little earlier, we heard from bbc monitoring journalist khosro isfahani who has been watching
Building behind me. The venue for this edition of global questions. It is Blackheads House. Latvians had hoped they had put their turbulent history of occupations behind them. When theyjoined the European Union along with fellow Baltic States, lithuania and estonia. But russias Annexation Of Crimea has reawa kened concerns about moscows ambitions and whether nato could protect them if russia were to interfere in their affairs. In the last few months, there has been a build up of nato troops in the region, with british units leading the effort in estonia, close to the russian border. If moscow and washington were to reset relations, would that leave the Baltic States feeling more exposed . Putin and trump, a new era . Welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from riga, the capital of latvia. Were at the Blackheads House in the heart of the old town. I am joined by an esteemed panel and a wonderful audience, some of them are from here in latvia but others have travelled to be
Euronews spoke to three voluntary soldiers about why they decided to join up and whether they feel prepared to defend their Baltic homeland from potential Russian aggression.