Donate your small talk manu raju youre on capitol hill in this is cnn its friday, march 1, right now on cnn this morning, a funeral for Alexey Navalnys set to begin next hour russian dissidents still rattling Vladimir Putin, even in death. Plus a critical hearing today in the maralago documents case, Donald Trumps lawyers now saying they would step two trial, three months before the election and congress doing what it seems to do best these days, kicking the can down the road. Yet again to head off a Government Shutdown arrived 05 00 a. M. Im here in washington a live look down the national mall, the washington monument, the Lincoln Memorial behind it. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its great to be with you. Happy friday. We made all right. Even in death, Alexey Navalny is haunting Vladimir Putin just an hour from now, Funeral Services are scheduled to begin in moscow for the late Opposition Leader. Hundreds of mourners and a heavy Police Presence or already in place. Navalnys
This past hour that washington will air drop humanitarian aid into the gaza strip. And thats where we are going to start. Theres growing International Pressure for a full investigation into what went wrong yesterday. As the aid convoy arrived in Northern Gaza. The israeli army has acknowledged that its soldiers opened fire at one point but says most of the deaths were caused by a crush, or lorries running people over. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has spent the day piecing together more details of what happened. His report contains some distressing images. Shots cracked through the night. People start to move. Then run to get away. In this section of the crowd there is panic. And as casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation the situation was unimaginably crazy. If aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. We dont want to live on the blood of our children. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convo
Details here on breakfast. Its sunday 3 march. Our top story The Chancellor, jeremy hunt, has tried to play down expectations about tax cuts in wednesdays budget, telling the Sunday Telegraph he has to act responsibly. With three days to go until mr hunt lays out his plans, the treasury says measures worth millions of pounds will be introduced to boost productivity in the public sector. Here is our Political Correspondent hannah miller. Police drones that can assess Road Traffic Accidents one solution chosen by The Chancellor as he takes an overview of the economy that doesnt make easy reading. But jeremy hunt says £800 million worth of Technology Like this will help to make police and hospitals more efficient and save almost £2 billion in five years it was time. Five years time. At a time when he has less money to play with them he would have hoped for, he is weighing up would have hoped for, he is weighing up what he can do to win votes. The chancellor is under pressure to make tax
Of unspun world. Willa ramadan ceasefire affect Benjamin Netanyahus push for total victory in the Southern Gaza city of rafah . Israel needs hamas to believe that a terrible fate awaits hamas in rafah unless something changes on the ground. Are Donald Trumps legal problems getting in the way of his re election . Will the independent voters in the suburbs of america want to vote for a man whos been indicted this many times . And barricades, rotting food and tear gas europes farmers are back and theyre angry. Whats different right now. Is the reaction at Leadership Level and the intensity of the anger that were seeing. Laughter and chatter do you like ice cream, too . Asjoe biden found the other day, the problem with announcing that peace talks are making progress is that the two main sides are likely to deny it as part of their ongoing negotiating tactics. Thats what happened almost immediately President Biden said the words. My hope is, by next monday, well have a ceasefire. Still, a c
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