invasion of ukraine. and the lengths people will go to to get around schemes that are supposed to reduce coming up on bbc news the fallout from the grand national is the death of three horses across the three day meeting, protest and arrest part of the best spark debate. good evening. the nhs in england said it had to cancel almost 200,000 operations and appointments last week during the four day strike by junior doctors, heaping four day strike byjunior doctors, heaping yet more pressure on the health service. over the past five months, almost half a million appointments have had to be rescheduled, and the nhs national medical director says with each strike, it becomes harder. and he wants the impact on patients and staff will continue to worsen. he warns. our health editor hugh pym reports. trying to get back to normal. are you comfortable as you are, lying on the bed? they are assessing patients who have come through this hospital s emergency department. fully staf
for consular access to mr kara murza, and we will continue to do that. for a critic of the kremlin, a political opponent of president putin, a prison sentence of 25 years is unprecedented in its severity. and it s a sign that in today s russia, the authorities are determined not only to silence or criticism, but to neutralise anyone and anything they believe could be a threat to the political system here. vladimir is a very strong man. evgenia kara murza is vladimir s wife. when she spoke to me from america before the verdict, she was already preparing for the worst. the 25 year prison sentence, i think this is. well, to me this is a recognition of the effectiveness of vladimir s work. they hate him so much, and they re so much afraid of him out there, you know, running free, that they need to lock him up for a quarter of a century to stop him
the verdict, guilty. the punishment, a quarter of a century in prison. access to the court room was heavily restricted. with otherjournalists and with foreign diplomats, we crowded into another room to watch on tv screens. for more than a decade, vladimir kara murza has been a high profile opponent of the kremlin. he d lobbied western governments to sanction russian officials for corruption and human rights abuses, and he publicly condemned the war in ukraine. mr kara murza is also a british citizen. the uk hasjoined international condemnation of his conviction. the british government will continue to support him and stand in solidarity with him and his family, and we will continue to call for his release. vladimir kara murza has a british passport. what will britain do to try to secure his release? we are continuing to ask
from continuing his work. another sign of the times in moscow. this famous museum reminds russians of political repression of the past. it s named after soviet human rights campaigner andrei sakharov, but the authorities have declared it a foreign agent, and now they re evicting it from the building. their final event feels like a swan song for russian democracy. 0f of course, the crackdown on dissent in russia has been going on for some time now, but certainly, it has accelerated since russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. what we saw today in moscow, the jailing of a kremlin critic for 25 years, thatis of a kremlin critic for 25 years, that is a sign ofjust how dangerous it has become for any politician or activist or opposition figure who
speaks out and challenges the kremlin will stop sophie. thank you, steve. a serving police officer has been charged with raping a woman in 2009 while he was on duty with the devon and cornwall force. 42 year old sergeant david stansbury has been suspended from hertfordshire police, where he now works. let s get the latest from our west of england correspondent, danjohnson, who s outside police headquarters in exeter. dan. yes, sergeant david stansbury served with devon and cornwall police between 2009 and 2011, and the allegation that was made to police here in 2020 was that whilst on duty in plymouth in 2009, he raped a woman, and he is now being charged by this force and faces three counts of rape against a woman aged 16 or over. he has been suspended from duty. he is still a current serving officer, though not with this force, with hertfordshire police, and he