those internal discussions, in terms of the procedure is followed by the australian authorities, come to light. returning them to the powers of the immigration minister and his power to deny novak djokovic a visa anyway and despite this ruling. do you think that is the root ultimately that the minister will go down, given the. the political and diplomatic row around this as well? i do. and what is remarkable about this case is it is quite unremarkable. as immigration lawyers, we see these kinds of situations quite frequently. we see clients be cancelled with 20 minutes to give a response at the airport on an almost daily basis. it is not unusual, it sjust now an almost daily basis. it is not unusual, it s just now that this procedure has come to light because most people simply go home and are not about to play a grand slam tournament and don t have the resources to take these matters to court. the fact this court has scrutinised what has happened at the
in four months and so djokovic arrives in australia as pretty much a heaven sent political football for him and he wants to be seen to the australian electorate as acting tough on this kind of thing and that there should be no exceptions for anybody. djokovic wants to win this title and if he does he would edge ahead of federer and nadal with 21 titles but if he plays in this tournament how do you think all of this will affect his performance? it could be quite ugly, the atmosphere, at the tournament. assuming he does compete, which would be starting in a week, he will have a lot of support. there were a lot of serbian supporters outside the hotel where he was being detained
so it s two years for that, and the other one is breaking the communication law, which is one year, but they say it has to be served concurrently so it is two years. and then another charge is to do with breaking covid restrictions, or the natural disaster law it s called, and that was two years. so four years for the three charges today, sentenced today, and two years before, so all together six years, but, as you said, it can be more than 100 years because more serious charges about corruption and the state secrets act are still on trial. let s return to our main story and the decision by an australian court to allow the world number one novak djokovic to stay in the country and defend his australian open title. thejudge has ordered the immediate
friends and relatives of the man recognised him as a famous musician, jazzman, who came to kazakhstan for concerts and then disappeared, so the only thing that they show doesn t work any more. breaking news about djokovic, we are hearing from his father he has told the bbc that his son will be talking alongside the family via video link at a news conference. we expect that to be happening in a little over two hours gmt. djokovic s father has told the bbc his son will be talking alongside then via video link at a news conference. this is the australian immigration minister is actively considering, we are told,
allowed to play. as we discovered in the affidavits overnight, for the first time djokovic has said, he is unvaccinated. the question we as tennis media put to him several times over the past four years and it is a question he has refused to answer. finally evidence from his own mouth he is unvaccinated. had he had a vaccination shot at some time in 2021 this would never have happened. in 2021 this would never have happened- in 2021 this would never have ha ened. . .. ., ., in 2021 this would never have ha ened. . ~ ., ., , our correspondent guy de launey is in the serb capital, belgrade. all eyes are going to be there because novak djokovic will be joining his dad via video link in just under two hours. that joining his dad via video link in just under two hours.- joining his dad via video link in just under two hours. that is right. we came along just under two hours. that is right. we came along to just under two hours. that is right. we came along to the just under two hour