Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny is the most resilient opponent Vladimir Putin has everfaced. Navalny survived attempted assassination by novichok, returned to russia and is now orchestrating anti putin protests from his prison cell. My guest is navalny s Chief Of Staff leonid volkov. The Opposition Movement has supporters willing to take to the streets in hundreds of russian towns and cities, but do they have a strategy capable of forcing putin from power . Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two, three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact. But still, we manage, at least, to pass some basic information about, l
This is bbc news, the headlines the irish Prime Minister, leo varadkar, announces hes going to step down before the next General Election. Sudan whats described as a war the worlds forgotten. Well have the latest on the crisis and the response. The uk government has banned 15 Synthetic Opioids, as a bbc investigation reveals its data may be underestimating their spread. And who will be picked in the draft for crickets newest, brashest competition the hundred . We have the latest. We will talk to our critic correspondent. All of that is before the sport correspondent. All of that is before the sort. ,. , correspondent. All of that is before the sort. , correspondent. All of that is before thesort. , the sport. Olly foster is in the bbc sort the sport. Olly foster is in the Bbc Sport Centre the sport. Olly foster is in the Bbc Sport Centre. Good the sport. Olly foster is in the Bbc Sport Centre. Good afternoon. Shohei ohtani made his long awaited debut since signing a record ten year 70
Emergency Management Agency says the agency has already deployed an assistance team. 0ur Correspondent Peter Bowes is in la with the latest. We expect it to make landfall in the next few hours in a very remotely populated part of barger california in mexico. Tijuana, the border city in mexico. Baja california. Concerns it could cause some serious damage there. Before moving north into california as a Tropical Storm, and that is the unusual part of this, a hurricane come Tropical Storm would get to california. And its expected to continue moving north as opposed to west, which is what a hurricane would generally do and then dissipate over the ocean. So the likely consequences are going to be extremely heavy rain in california, some of the neighbouring states as well. To put that in perspective, palm springs, the desert resort, searing temperatures, a0 degrees plus, this time of year very dry, is expected to get maybe ten or 12 centimetres of rain over the next 12 hours. We are just not
talking business. hello, everybody! a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. shipping gets stuck in the slow lane. how much damage will be caused by the red sea attacks forcing global trade to take the long way around? the global economy relies on all our stuff being moved across the oceans. but, are 150 years of progress being undone by an unprecedented threat to shipping? i m going to be discussing all of that with these two, there they are. the big boss of the world second biggest shipping company, denmark s maersk, who tells me that consumers are already feeling the effect with higher prices. and the boss of the un s international maritime organisation, who will fill us in on what needs to be done to keep the oceans free for global trade. plus, big bucks for the big stage the man who runs the world s biggest brewer, the giant behind budweiser, corona and stella tells us why he is spending h
missiles. this is the latest attack in the region which is one of the world s most important trade routes. the head of the un s international maritime organisation says these attacks are one of the biggest challenges the body has ever faced. biggest challenges the body has everfaced. my biggest challenges the body has ever faced. my colleague spoke to the head of the organisation and asked what can be done to stop the attacks. it s one of the biggest challenges the imo has faced, in particularly in recent years. and the reality is that as you mentioned, shipping is a global sector. we transport over 80% of global trade, so any actions that are happening out there, that interrupt the trade, the global trade, will have a negative effect on you, on me, and everyone on the planet. we need to work very closely with all the stakeholders, with all the member states, the other agencies, the united nations in particular, in order to find practical solutions to a problem we don t want