our programme today dominated by that news from russia that the jailed politcial activist, alexei navalny, has died. the putin critic was being held in a penal colony, close to the arctic circle serving a 19 year sentence for extremism and fraud charges charges widely considered to be politically motivated. there s been an avalanche of international reaction. the us vice president, kamala harris saying, russia is responsible for navalny s death . the uk prime minister said, it was terrible news and nato s secretary general says, russia has serious questions to answer. in 2020, navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent novichok russia s fsb security service was blamed. today, russia s prison service said navalny felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness . in a moment our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, looks back at the life of alexei navalny. but first, in the last hour we ve heard from navalny s wife, who has been speaking in mu
statement in the past hour. i want putin and all his allies, all his friends, his government, i want them all to know that they will be held responsible for what they have done with our country, with my family, with my husband. more on that in the next family, with my husband. more on that in the next half family, with my husband. more on that in the next half an family, with my husband. more on that in the next half an hour. - more on that in the next half an hour. the final ruling in donald trump s civil fraud trial is expected later. the former president faces a 370 million dollarfine and restrictions on doing business in new york. in the uk labour wins two by elections in a further blow to the governing conservatives. our top story this hour breaking news from russia, where the prison service has announced that the jailed kremlin critic alexei navalny has died. in a statement, it said he felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness. us sec
wagner group sees that early on as a key objective, they pretty much walked in. they have held it since. they left a reasonable force, we think, in that area. although, at the moment, there is some local opposition from the chechens who are approaching rostov. they are very loyal to the regime. that is sort of developing in the city at the moment. so they have seized the city, they didn t have huge strength there, but they do have their headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters and the south controls on the communication. so it s really strategically important. prigozhin isn t a critic of the war, he is a critic of the way it is being fought. he thinks it should be fought. he thinks it should be fought more strenuously than it is. they have no interest in stopping the war in ukraine there, it is continuing but under wagner supervision at this point. there is this flying column that is making its way towards masco and we know that i
Is from the mayo of moscow who has said, the situation is difficult. he has put out a statement that it is possible that some writer neighbourhoods within the city will be closed to traffic and has asked moscow whites not to venture out into the city. he said that it is currently being described in moscow as a nonworking day to minimise risk. he said he asked for moscow citizens to refrain from travelling around the city as much as is possible. and that the city services are on high alert. i m just going to bring my colleague who is with me in the studio. it is interesting that the studio. it is interesting that the mayor of moscow has said that moscow citizens need to treat this as a nonworking day to minimise risk. to as a nonworking day to minimise risk. ., ., ., as a nonworking day to minimise risk. ., . ., ., as a nonworking day to minimise risk. ., ., ., ., ,, ., , , risk. to a lot of russians, this will come risk. to a lot of russians, this will come as risk. to a lot of rus