Days. His mother said they had threatened her because they wanted the burial to take place in secret. The news of the funeral comes just before mr navalny s widow yulia is due to address the European Parliament in a speech about Political Prisoners which we will bring to you live later this hour. Lets speak to our europe correspondent nick beake. He is in strasbourg. These details just emerging about Alexei Navalny s funeral in the past half hour or so. What more do we know . Samantha, these details came from the team would use to work for Alexei Navalny and may have confirmed that the funeral will take place on friday, friday afternoon. There will be a service initially starting to be a moscow time and then a burial at a crematorium, a cemetery nearby. As you may recall the mother of Alexei Navalny had been told, it was reported, to agree to a secret burial and that if she didnt agree to that they would be a burial at the penal colony where he had been held for quite some time and whe
That most of those who died were run over as the aid convoy moved away. In the last hour, the Un Security Council has been meeting Behind Closed Doors to discuss the situation. It comes on the day that the hamas government says more than 30,000 people have been killed in the territory since this conflict began in october. Our special correspondent fergal keane reports from Jerusalem The Hunger created by war made this tragedy. That is a fundamental fact of what happened today. The dead and wounded were starving people, simply hoping to feed their families. Translation | am| one of the wounded. I was on al rashid street. We were there all day in order to get food for our children, but we paid for that aid with our blood. Thousands had gathered in the predawn darkness. Theyd heard trucks were coming with aid. There were farmers, mechanics, our bbc cameraman, teachers, a doctor from a local hospital. An israeli drone filmed people crowding the aid trucks. It is a striking depiction of hum
Rate in 2022 was 1. 49 the lowest since records began. For a countrys population to hold steady, there must be 2. 1 births per woman. And falling birth rates are causing alarm for politicians, facing a future of ageing populations and shrinking workforces. Lets get more on this with our Correspondent. Lets get more on this with our Correspondent. South korea has broken its Correspondent. South korea has broken its lowest Correspondent. South korea has broken its lowest birth Correspondent. South korea has broken its lowest birth rate Correspondent. South korea has l broken its lowest Birth Rate Record once again according to new numbers released on wednesday by statistics korea, mother countrys Birth Rate Recorded 0. 72, an 8 decrease from the previous year. The Capital City Seoul recorded 0. 55 which is the lowest among all the districts across the country. Although the low birth trend is spreading all across the world, especially among developed countries, south korea is. After reach
Let me hear you say im voting uncommitted. All im voting uncommitted. Voting uncommitted is a protest against the president. You wouldnt know it from these signs, but these are normally joe biden supporters. Furious, though, about his support for israels war on gaza. They want him to call for a permanent ceasefire before hell win their votes again. No matter how many people refuse to support him today, Joe Biden Cannot lose this democratic primary contest. But if the same people dont vote for him in the president ial election, that could be decisive. Michigan is a key state that he only won very narrowly last time, and he really needs to win again this year. Many students and young voters are also distressed by what they see happening in gaza, notjust here at Michigans Wayne state university, but on campuses right across the United States. America sees whats happening. Its heartbreaking. And to not see, at the very least, a ceasefire being advocated for by our president , its maddening