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
Rate in 2022 was 1. 49 the lowest since records began. For a countrys 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. Lets get more on this with our Correspondent. Lets 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 countrys 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 korea is. After reach
Wing of the organisation. these are images of the latest airstrikes. up to 32 palestinians including six children are now reported to have been killed in this latest outbreak of violence. earlier, i spoke to our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, to get the latest on what s been happening this morning. i heard distant blasts as these rockets were fired by palestinians in the gaza strip towardsjerusalem. it is the first time that has happened since the full scale conflict in gaza last may. they were intercepted by israel s missile defence system. but this was very important symbolically. it happened just at a time because it s a jewish holiday, there are israeli nationalists who are being allowed to visit the disputed holy site injerusalem, known as temple mount to thejews. for palestinian muslims, it s al aqsa mosque compound, the holiest place for them injerusalem and the holiest place injudaism. so, this is always