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. Lets 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 didnt agree to that they would be a burial at the penal colony where he had been held for quite some time and whe
Of the vote is in. A further 15 of democratic voters have declared themselves to be uncommitted not favouring any candidate. This is seen as strong pushback to biden from key demographics that he might need to win the state again progressives, voters of colour, and arab and muslim voters concerned by his stance on the israel gaza war. Activists in the state had been organising to send President Biden a message no ceasefire, no vote and encouraged voters to select the uncommitted option instead of the president s name. The movement has wide ranging endorsements, including congresswoman rashida tlaib, who posted this earlier. I was proud today to walk in and pull a democratic ballot and vote uncommitted. We must protect our democracy. We must make sure that our government is about us, about the people. When 74 of democrats in michigan support a ceasefire, yet President Biden is not hearing us. This is the way we can use our democracy to say, listen listen to michigan. Earlier we heard fr
happen in between that period that time and now and we re in a new situation now. of course, we know sweden very well they know us very well, too. so we re preparing what we have seen lately from them, and what we want to do and how we want to play. max verstappen was fastest on day one of practice for the japanese grand prix. on and off rain wrecked second practice, but in the first session there was a marked improvement for the mercedes with both lewis hamilton and george russell finishing within half a second of verstappen. but williams awful start to the season conintined with american logan sargeant losing control at a high speed control at a high speed corner and crashing out. thankfully he was ok, the car not so. a silly error, to be honest, one i shouldn t be making, especially in p1. but yeah, fortunately it wasn t like the mistakes last year, it wasn t over pushing. nevertheless, still left the team with some damage but fortunately got away better than it cou
said that ukraine was ready for this counteroffensive but he warned that in the coming days and weeks and months, many lives would be lost. the ukrainian soldiers we ve spoken to have a solemn understanding of that. they realise there s a lot riding on this counteroffensive perhaps everything. officials have warned tens of millions of people across north america they re at risk of breathing in hazardous air. ottawa and new york are facing the brunt of the dangerous air quality, in fact they briefly had the worst air quality in the world overnight you can see this orange haze hanging over new york in these images. major league baseball games have been called off in new york and philadelphia. and this is a timlapse of new york city captured by earthcam and shows just how quickly the orange haze covers that famous skyline. this all stems from what officials say is likely the worst wildfire
at risk of breathing in hazardous air. ottawa and new york are facing the brunt of the dangerous air quality, in fact they briefly had the worst air quality in the world overnight in these live pictures of manhattan you can see the smog over the city. major league baseball games have been called off in new york and philadelphia. and this is a timelapse of new york city captured by earthcam earlier, and shows just how quickly the orange haze covers that famous skyline. this all stems from what officials say is likely the worst wildfire season on record in canada, with climate change increasing the risk of hot and dry weather. hundreds of american firefighters have landed there to help battle the fires raging across the country. after the white house pledged support after the white house pledged support for after the white house pledged support for canada. after the white house pledged support for canada. thousands have support for canada. thousands have been support for canada.