joining a mission to repair the coastline. you can buy anything here. and i dive into the heart of its capital city. everybody that we would expect to be in sri lanka is right here. look at it. it s packed, it s crowded, it s got a really old world feel about it. i m here at a crucial stage for sri lanka as the island aims to bounce back yet again. this is the west coast of sri lanka, under two hour s drive from the capital city, colombo. i want to start my adventure with a different perspective. a bird s eye view, in fact. that, i believe. ..is a flying machine. they call it a paramotor, and that is how i m going to see the coastline right now. 0k. here we go. yeah. looking forward to it. thank you. i can t believe i m actually going to do this. motor whirs here we go. whoa! what a feeling. cannot beat this. absolutely beautiful. this perspective is unbeatable. i thought, as a child, we d all be flying like this every day as a matter of course. now my dream s come true. sri
but in putin s russia, even laying flowers can be risky, if you re doing it in memory of his biggest opponent. whenever anger or upset have boiled over, police have moved in. hundreds of people have been arrested across the country, dragged away by police who have cleared the streets. this is the russia that alexei navalny and his supporters wanted to change, but three years ago, he was poisoned with a nerve agent, then he was locked up. the last time the politician was seen alive, he was defiantly cheerful. this was him on video link from prison to a court hearing and there were no obvious signs of sickness. inside the arctic prison, he was spending weeks on end in solitary confinement. the authorities say he collapsed suddenly. the cause the cause of his death is still unknown. and when navalny s mother arrived to collect his body, she not find her son. the body of alexei navalny is not there, so alexei s prison just lied to his lawyer and his mother that the body is there
mined areas in the world. loud explosion. ooh. ..to one of the greatest natural disasters of our time. and now it s recovering from its worst ever economic crisis. i first came here in the year 2000, and i was struck by the laidback island mentality. but sri lanka s been through a lot since then, and i want to find out how it s changed. in this first leg of myjourney. the coral is gone. we destroyed the sea and the sea destroyed us. ..i take to the seas, joining a mission to repair the coastline. you can buy anything here. and i dive into the heart of its capital city. everybody that we would expect to be in sri lanka is right here. look at it. it s packed, it s crowded, it s got a really old world feel about it. i m here at a crucial stage for sri lanka as the island aims to bounce back yet again. this is the west coast of sri lanka, under two hour s drive from the capital city, colombo. i want to start my adventure with a different perspective. a bird s eye view, in fact. t
we know each and every one of them. it s just like family. but it s been through decades of struggle, from a brutal civil war. this became one of the most heavily mined areas in the world. loud explosion. ooh. ..to one of the greatest natural disasters of our time. and now it s recovering from its worst ever economic crisis. i first came here in the year 2000, and i was struck by the laidback island mentality. but sri lanka s been through a lot since then, and i want to find out how it s changed. in this first leg of myjourney. the coral is gone. we destroyed the sea and the sea destroyed us. ..i take to the seas, joining a mission to repair the coastline. you can buy anything here. and i dive into the heart of its capital city. everybody that we would expect to be in sri lanka is right here. look at it. it s packed, it s crowded, it s got a really old world feel about it. i m here at a crucial stage for sri lanka as the island aims to bounce back yet again. this is the west
hello, i m sally bundock. warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the middle east where israeli defence forces have carried out air strikes in gaza strip after they intercepted five rockets they said had been fired from there into southern israel. it comes shortly the idf announced they were withdrawing from the town ofjenin in the occupied west bank, after a two day military operation, which left twelve palestinians and an israeli soldier dead. israel says the action was an attempt to root out terrorists inside the refugee camp, while palestinian leaders accused israel of mounting an invasion . an estimated 3,000 people left thejenin refugee camp since the attacks started. jenin has become a stronghold of a new generation of palestinian militants who are frustrated by the west bank based palestinian authority s aging leadership, and the restrictions of israeli occupation. the united nations meanwhile has denounced the vi