days. his mother said they had threatened her because they wanted the burial to take place in secret. the news of the funeral comes just before mr navalny s widow yulia is due to address the european parliament in a speech about political prisoners which we will bring to you live later this hour. let s speak to our europe correspondent nick beake. he is in strasbourg. these details just emerging about alexei navalny s funeral in the past half hour or so. what more do we know? samantha, these details came from the team would use to work for alexei navalny and may have confirmed that the funeral will take place on friday, friday afternoon. there will be a service initially starting to be a moscow time and then a burial at a crematorium, a cemetery nearby. as you may recall the mother of alexei navalny had been told, it was reported, to agree to a secret burial and that if she didn t agree to that they would be a burial at the penal colony where he had been held for quite some t
effective bankruptcy in the next few years unless the funding system is reformed. a report by the local government information unit has found services like parks, leisure facilities and libraries are at risk of being cut, while council tax could rise in some areas. our reporter vincent mcaviney has more. yay! well done. alex is about to turn 18, and on top of the regular worries parents have about their children, mum, sylvia also has to think about alex s autism and the extra support he needs to gain independence. support that s under fire for her and other families as birmingham city council struggles with financial difficulties. what you get is families that are on their knees with a trauma presentation, traumatised kids, and they never get decent outcomes. theyjust end up constantly trying to get the basics, which everybody else s child gets naturally. and it s notjust birmingham that s struggling. across the country, councils are warning that front line neighbourhood se
rate in 2022 was 1.49 the lowest since records began. for a country s population to hold steady, there must be 2.1 births per woman. and falling birth rates are causing alarm for politicians, facing a future of ageing populations and shrinking workforces. let s get more on this with our correspondent. let s get more on this with our correspondent. south korea has broken its correspondent. south korea has broken its lowest correspondent. south korea has broken its lowest birth - correspondent. south korea has broken its lowest birth rate - correspondent. south korea has l broken its lowest birth rate record once again according to new numbers released on wednesday by statistics korea, mother country s birth rate recorded 0.72, an 8% decrease from the previous year. the capital city seoul recorded 0.55 which is the lowest among all the districts across the country. although the low birth trend is spreading all across the world, especially among developed countries, south