a russian court has sentenced one of president putin s most prominent critics to 25 years in prison for treason. vladimir kara murza has also been convicted of spreading false information about the russian armed forces and co operation with an undesirable organisation . he played a key role in persuading western governments to sanction russian officials for human rights abuses and corruption. the russian british former journalist and politician is the latest of a number of putin opponents to have been arrested or forced to flee russia. he had denied the charges and been vocally critical of his trial. let s get more on this story now with sergei goryashko from the bbc russian sevice. could you start by telling us what happened, what we know about what happened, what we know about what happened in court today? todd? happened, what we know about what happened in court today? happened in court today? today in court, in happened in court today? today in court. in a happened in
have to do. all the things are on the table, everything is clear, our own record isn t as bad as the away record but we play away. anyway, i m looking forward to the game. elsewhere it is day three of the world snooker champion ship in sheffield and a big shock already has the 2016 runner up ding junhui is out. he led hossein vafaei light 5-4 is out. he led hossein vafaei light 5 4 overnight but the world number 23 was in scintillating form winning the first four frames of the day on his way to a 10 6 victory. hossein vafaei faces defending champion and world number one ronnie o sullivan now in the second round. meanwhile, world number three mark alan has also been in action. he won the first five frames against a chinese debutant before being pegged back to 6 3. that match resumes in the final session of the day. elsewhere, england s mark fitzpatrick says winning the rbc heritage title is something very special, he beat defending champion jordan spieth in a dramatic play off
room with western leaders talking about that. and today at a press conference ahead of those discussions between president erdogan and putin, the two of them in front of the cameras laughing and smiling before they sat down to sort of lay out the agenda for the day. so certainly president erdogan will be hoping he can come to some sort of an agreement, some sort of breakthrough, some sort of way to get russia back on board with renewing this grain deal because as we have seen, it has been crucial to the global community to getting food where it needs to go, for providing security for farmers across ukraine, that there are buyers out there that can get the crops they need. that their storage facilities have room for the new crop coming in, it is how the season now, so a lot of questions about what will happen. the two sides seem fairly optimistic, the turkish side seems optimistic, the turkish side seems optimistic they can come home for a with the deal. global food securit
equally today, some of you may feel it isa equally today, some of you may feel it is a little bit unfair. across scotla nd it is a little bit unfair. across scotland blue skies and sunshine but further east, the wall enda brady all, a lot of cloud and some rain as well. the cloud has been marching on gci’oss well. the cloud has been marching on across south eastern areas. we had some midlands through wales, the midlands and the south west but that tends to disappear this afternoon. the best of the brightness across northern england and especially northern ireland and scotland. although rather windy across the tops of the pennines. and even with the sunshine temperatures of ten or 11 degrees along that eastern coastline. some splashes of rain around and even inland, disappointing the cool as we go through the rest of the afternoon. but further west we have 20 degrees. but further west we have 20 degrees. but where we had the sunshine by day, we get clear skies overnight so s