Good evening. Lord Cameron has said the West should hold Vladimir Putin accountable for the death of Alexei Navalny. Elsewhere, US President Joe Biden has made a statement following the death of the Russian opposition leader. Follow live updates here.
Hundreds of people protested outside the Russian embassy in London on Friday night, carrying placards accusing Vladimir Putin of murdering opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to prepare for evacuating Rafah ahead of an expected invasion, despite US warnings that the assault would be a “disaster”.
Destroying buildings inside the Gazan border in an effort to create a “buffer zone” constitutes a war crime by Israel, the United Nations said on Thursday.
In this episode of Battle Lines, Middle East Correspondent Nataliya Vasilyeva gives us the latest from Israel with reports of a buffer zone being secretly built by Israel, Global Health Security Correspondent Sarah Newey tells us about a Thai farmer in Israel who was taken hostage by Hamas on the October 7th attacks, and David Knowles speaks to Professor Alex DeWaal about the unraveling civil war in Sudan.