and coming up on bbc news the world indoors are underway in glasgow and home favourite jemma reekie is safely through to the semi finals of the 800m after winning her heat. good afternoon. he was vladimir putin s arch enemy the kremlin s most prominent opponent. the kremlin s most almost two weeks ago alexei navalny died in mysterious circumstances in the arcticjail where he d been imprisoned. well, today, in a gesture of mass defiance, thousands of mr navalny s supporters attended his funeral in moscow. they knew they were risking arrest, but they chanted that they were not afraid. our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford reports and some viewers may find some of the images in this report distressing. they shouted his name. a final act of support for alexei navalny. as his coffin arrived at a moscow church. it s the name vladimir putin refused to utter. navalny, being buried today, was putin s greatest political rival. so, this funeral was a show of defiance to
abu ali and his family fled their town, they say, because of the israeli shelling. they moved several times before settling here. translation: we moved four or five times before arriving here. do i expect to return home? god knows. but unfortunately, there are no signs on the horizon. nothing. if it wasn t for the war, fatima would have been now at school in grade six. translation: i was supposed to enroll for the school year i when the war started. my father came home one day and told us to prepare to leave. we were packing our stuff and crying at the same time. i miss everything back home. and this hotel turned into a displacement centre. into a displacement centre. people refer to each other by the number of their rooms. and behind each door, there s a story of a border town. this is bintjbeil and so on. a different room, a different story. this woman doesn t even know if her house still stands. translation: no one has access to the village now l because of the situation
on the impact of somalia s drought, the worst in a0 years, with people walking for days in search of life saving help. we are headed for a catastrophe, this serious, really going to get worse. and private screenings of a film starring british and pakistani stars are being auctioned to raise funds forflood victims in pakistan. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the uk, where the new finance ministerjeremy hunt has been insisting the prime minister liz truss is in charge. 48 hours into thejob, he has the herculean task of restoring market confidence in her economic plans. he s made clear he will be looking at government spending as well as the planned tax cuts. mr hunt held talks with the prime minister on sunday. but her position did not appear secure three conservative members of parliament have publicly called for her to resign. here s our political correspondent ben wright. behind the gates of the prime minister s coun
Criticised for linking the deaths of 41 miners in an explosion to destiny , saying such accidents will always be . president erdogan made the comments during a visit to the site in bartin province on saturday. protests have taken place in istanbul objecting to his remarks, with some protestors describing the accident as a massacre . the american r&b singerjoyce sims has died at the age of 63. she was best known for her song come into my life, which was a chart hit in 1987. her work was also sampled by the likes of angie stone and snoop dogg. private screenings of a film starring british and pakistani stars including emma thompson and sajal ali are being auctioned to raise funds for flood victims in pakistan. around 1,700 people have died and nearly eight million people have been displaced by the floods.