That the charges against him as i have described it are observed, that he is not a spy, he is a journalist and his arrest they argue very firmly is simply a sign of the crackdown on free speech and free expression and on the Freedom Of The Press Inside Russia, and that he himself was always a political hostage taken because russia wanted a trade. Ultimately that is what has happened. He spent more than a year in prison. A young journalist, extremely ambitious, just in a new job with the Wall Streetjournal, extremely good at thatjob. He was then arrested. It now looks like he is going to be heading home. I know there have been a huge number of his friends. Otherjournalists and people who work with him in moscow and elsewhere have been campaigning and elsewhere have been campaigning and getting people to write letters and getting people to write letters and translating those letters tirelessly, even one of his Friends Reading Books together with him in prison, sending books to him and th
on the video last year, apologised and resigned today. to all of you who have lost loved ones, who endured intolerable loneliness, and who struggled with your businesses, i am truly sorry. that video, taken during lockdown last year, seemed to make fun of a downing street party, a party the prime minister still says did not happen. i apologise unreservedly - for the offence that it has caused up and down the country, and i apologise for- the impression that it gives. millions of people now think the prime minister was taking them for fools, and that they were lied to. and pfizer biontech announce that three doses of their vaccine can neutralise the new omicron variant of the virus. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel, a stoppage time zenit st petersburg equaliser means holders chelsea finish runners up in their champions league group. welcome to bbc news at ten, which comes to you from media city in salford tonight, which along with the rest of england is facin
with a third missing more than a month of teaching, according to a new report. housing charity shelter blamed what it described as total inaction from the government for the numbers of young people in traumatic living arrangements. the government says it increased local housing allowance significantly during the pandemic, and is delivering more affordable homes. here s our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan. it s barely 6:30am, and isaiah is heading to his childminder. ..while his brother coby begins the journey to school. single mum lily is heading to work as a nurse, hence the early start. we used to walk to school every single day from our old house. but that all changed when they were made homeless in september, after the landlord sold the property. now the commute can take up to 45 minutes. if i could get us housed near his school, that s my main goal. this is where they re currently living, all three sharing a one bed flat. it s temporary accommodation.