to and from the uk to be operated by the airline have been cancelled. at 10:00 we will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, our world: the hunt for the superyachts. for years, many russian billionaires enjoyed lavish lifestyles in the west. they bought the most sought after villas and holidayed on their beloved superyachts. but with russia s invasion of ukraine, theirfairytale came to an abrupt end. western sanctions sparked a game of cat and mouse between some of the world s most powerful nations and some of russia s richest men. there was a real frenzy around the world between democracies to see who could sanction the most people the most quickly, who could sanction the biggest yacht. we got stopped because this is a big, blue, easily visible, high profile target. for the first time, the head of the us kleptocapture task force reveals how they caught a superyacht. we saw it scrambling out of waters where we would normally be able to seize it. security, sec
task force had set their sights on a much bigger target the $325 million yacht amadea. the amadea s a massive yacht. even among megayachts, it s a luxury villa that floats on the water. it has dozens of rooms, it has swimming pools and chandeliers, it has dining rooms that dwarf most people s dining rooms. the ownership of this 106m yacht is at the centre of a dispute. kleptocapture says it s owned by russian senator and billionaire businessman suleyman kerimov. he was one of the oligarchs who attended putin s summit at the start of the war. but kerimov denies owning the amadea. kerimov is famously discrete, he hasn t given an interview in the entire time that