For 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital. Vladimir putin. Externally, hes projected russian power from ukraine to syria, and internally opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. But not altogether. My guest today is the most prominent leader of russias anti putin opposition, Alexey Navalny. Alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. You have been involved in Opposition Politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now, your position is perhaps more dispiriting, more depressing than its ever been before. Do you agree . Absolutely not. Actually, ironically, i can call Vladimir Putin as my godfather in politics, because when he came to power and the way he talks and the way what hes saying, what hes doing, the laws hes passing through duma, told me that russia is done with democracy and i should do something, i should join the opposition movement. But, you
London, this is bbc world news, its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1 am in london and 8 00 in the evening in washington dc, where donald trump is preparing for his inauguration on friday, as 45th president of the United States. The ceremony on capitol hill is expected to draw Hundreds Of Thousands of spectators to the nations capital. The celebrations have already begun, with a huge Open Air Concert at the lincoln memorial, not far from the white house, and donald trump addressing the crowd. It is a movement that started. And it is a Movement Like we have never seen anywhere in the world, they say. There has never been a Movement Like this. And it is something very, very special. And we are going to unify our country. And our phrase, you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat, make America Great again. Cheering and applause. But we are going to make America Great for all of our people, everybody. Everybody throughout our country. I promise you that i will work so ha
She continues the defence of her title against Kristyna Pliskova of the czech republic. I played once against her, i think a few years ago, and i know that she has a great serve as well. Yeah, i am looking forward to playing against her. Kerber against pliskova is the second match on the rod laver arena. At the moment, canadas Eugenie Bouchard is playing Coco Vandeweghe of the united states. It is currently one set all. Bouchard is a break up in the third set. And still to come, the former champion Stan Wawrinka plays Viktor Troicki of serbia. In the evening session, Ashleigh Barty will have the support of the home crowd against mona barthel of germany. And then its Roger Federer against tomas berdych, who havent met this early in a tournament since the Beijing Olympics of 2008. Federer is still feeling his way back to fitness after his knee injury. If got to if got to g if got to s be honest. I didnt play a lot, to be honest. I didnt say anything, it put it that way. He was playing at
If there was any doubt as to whether the French public would embrace the Olympics, the month of May gave a pretty clear indication, as over a million spectators turned out to watch the Olympic torch light up its path across the country. The torch, which has been crossing France…